ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

[bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer)]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:53:06PM +0200,
 Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org> wrote 
 a message of 49 lines which said:

> not even thinking of all the nice security issues which come along
> (home, mycomputer and .exe etc anyone ?

This requires serious elaboration. How could you use a domain in
".exe" to actually attack someone? (No handwaving, please, actual
study.)

> Thank you people doing all the ICANN politics for destroying the Internet.

The Internet, until now, resisted to forces much more powerful than
ICANN.