NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Barack Obama, Icann, Cybersquatting
16 Jan 2017
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Often times technical issues are used to mass questions about technicality and control: icann. The one organization that controlled all of this is icann. They played a huge role in the overall governance of the internet. If you were a company who wanted its own tldn, then you will be charged. With pharming we talked about the fact that people today are more confused than ever. There is a lot more opportunity for fraud. If you have a lot of names u can use, it actually creates problems for the companies itself. sucks is a real domain name, but what happens when wal- mart. suck or apple. sucks. All of a sudden the idea of opening things up becomes an issue of have offensive tldns. A huge amount of information and the idea was that this information could be located in a tldn which everyone can understand.
