[CPWG] Verisign

[Bill Jouris]

Jonathan, 
In your last paragraph, you say: "Individual end users don’t care about the wholesale price of domains. They care about whether they’re getting to the site they intend, that the site won’t infect their machine with malware, that the site won’t commit fraud on them, etc. etc...." 
But that does give individual end users a stake in domain name prices.  Thanks to the IDN effort, we are about to see a spike in the potential for DNS abuse -- specifically the easy opportunity (thanks to ICANN's approach) to generate quite misleading domain names.  
The only obvious defense, for registrants who want their customers to arrive reliably at their website, will be defensive registrations.  Lots of defensive registrations.  (I did a quick calculation for Citi Bank.  4 letter domain name.  Close to 300 readily confusable variations.  Longer names would have more, of course.)
If the price of registrations goes up, they will do fewer defensive registrations.  Which means end users will have more trouble reliably getting where they want to go.  Which, I submit, we do care about.
Bill Jouris 

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