Phishy Domain Names: "It won't be long before domain name registars are forced to treat phishing target names specially to prevent this sort of things from happening."
[via Don Park's Daily Habit]
Reading Don's entry and reflecting on how this might become a registrar problem led me down the road of wonder why the IP community isn't doing more to protect itself using the available tools. Phishing that relies on domain names in order to be successful indicates that the intellectual property lawyers are failing terribly at using protective mechanisms like the UDRP to protect the rights of consumers and intellectual property holders.
How can intellectual property lawyers expect the rest
of society to continue to cover up the fact that they are doing a
miserable job for their clients? The same group that somehow expects
ICANN to ensure 100% accurate data in the whois database via some
as-of-yet-unexplained magic technology can't even manage to do fuzzy
pattern matching against the daily zone file publication looking for
names like the one Don complains about.
I watched a bit of "Reality Bites"
last night and tuned out pretty quickly because it really started
getting on my nerves. Reading Don's post helps me
understand why. The self-entitlement complex really annoys me. Is
the intellectual property community the new Generation X?
I hear Burger-o-rama is hiring...
