Registrars can now block people from registering tens of thousands of domain names that look like, are spelling variations of, or otherwise infringe on brand names.
This is terrible even from a capitalist perspective as stated in the article
More interestingly though, trademark protection generally applies to goods and services in a particular class and that too in specific jurisdictions thereby complicating matters.
Unless the goal is just to make sure no one usurps the big companies that are able to pay > $5000 a month for the service.
There is something to be said about the security aspect in regards to typo-squatting. But the better solution there is to let the browser or a browser extension give a warning the way it does for sites without https certs. Possibly by comparing a list of similar names to a database of traffic rankings and then warning that app1e.com is not apple.com are you sure you want to proceed. but even then it’s going to ensure more traffic goes to the big companies and probably won’t stop the more common use of typosquating which is for email scams.
It should be said that the same security problem exists with phone numbers too.
This is terrible even from a capitalist perspective as stated in the article
Unless the goal is just to make sure no one usurps the big companies that are able to pay > $5000 a month for the service.
There is something to be said about the security aspect in regards to typo-squatting. But the better solution there is to let the browser or a browser extension give a warning the way it does for sites without https certs. Possibly by comparing a list of similar names to a database of traffic rankings and then warning that app1e.com is not apple.com are you sure you want to proceed. but even then it’s going to ensure more traffic goes to the big companies and probably won’t stop the more common use of typosquating which is for email scams.
It should be said that the same security problem exists with phone numbers too.