It seems that today in Paris it was decided that TLD’s are no longer to be regulated as much as they are anymore. This means that the internet as of sometime next year is going to change forever more. No longer will you see things like www.hotmail.com, itll probbaly change to something like www.hotmail.msn or some other random variants. There is also currently no length restriction, so .smith will be able to exist. This will change the internet for the worse, no longer will .com be the international recognised domain, but soon anything could be. Not only does this incite confusion for standard users who can’t even remember .com, .net, .org and .co.uk, but it will become .<anything>.

The security implications are astronomic, phishers will have a field day, and I expect the amount of internet fraud will go through the roof. www.secure.hsbc anyone? Not that the problem with them was bad enough, this will make it infinitely worse, banks will have to come up with more inventive ways to protect their users.

Cyber squatters will go round snapping every domain name and variation known to man as well.

ICANN you have let me, and anyone else who uses the internet seriously, down.