[CPWG] Verisign

[Bill Jouris]

Hi Roberto, 
I don't work for Citi Bank, and am not aware of knowing anyone who does.  So I have no idea. 
I would note that, at this moment, we are probably 6 months from ICANN publishing the IDN effort's tables of all the variations on the Latin alphabet.  Having that readily available will make coming up with indistinguishable domain names much easier for bad actors.  And thus the need for defensive registrations. 
In short, the problem wrt the need for defensive registrations is still at the readily foreseeable stage, rather than the already exploding in our face stage.  
Bill

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  On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 2:16 AM, Roberto Gaetano<roberto_gaetano at hotmail.com> wrote:   Hi Bill.Just a couple of questions wrt:



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.)


How many actual defensive registrations has Citi Bank?
Thanks,R.
  
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