Domains without a point will not be
On August 13 of this year, ICANN made a final decision to ban the registration of top-level domains without the use of dotless domains.
Studies have repeatedly proved the insecurity of such domains , but a number of companies, until very recently, promoted this initiative. The most famous of them is Google, which wanted to launch a search domain zone without a dot for its search engine.
Google had similar plans for its other services. For this purpose, the company was going to make some changes to the interface of its browser - in its opinion, this would allow users to more easily find the necessary information on the Internet.
But the point in the discussion of this problem was only recently - after the publication of the study from Carve Systems earlier this month.
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Carve Systems discovered that in the case of launching domain zones without dots, the probability of leakage of personal data from local networks in which similar domain names are already used will increase significantly. This problem exists with ordinary domain zones , but with domains without points the risk is much greater - studies have shown the likelihood of cookies leakage and even the possibility of obtaining complete unauthorized access to local network sites from the Internet.
The fact is that most of the software does not provide adequate protection for domains without a dot, taking into account their features, since they are now used only in local networks. For example, Internet Explorer perceives them as domains belonging to the local network and automatically assigns them a high level of security. Thus, the safe launch of domains without a dot would be possible only after the security updates of all widely used network equipment and software.
Studies have repeatedly proved the insecurity of such domains , but a number of companies, until very recently, promoted this initiative. The most famous of them is Google, which wanted to launch a search domain zone without a dot for its search engine.
Google had similar plans for its other services. For this purpose, the company was going to make some changes to the interface of its browser - in its opinion, this would allow users to more easily find the necessary information on the Internet.
But the point in the discussion of this problem was only recently - after the publication of the study from Carve Systems earlier this month.
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Carve Systems discovered that in the case of launching domain zones without dots, the probability of leakage of personal data from local networks in which similar domain names are already used will increase significantly. This problem exists with ordinary domain zones , but with domains without points the risk is much greater - studies have shown the likelihood of cookies leakage and even the possibility of obtaining complete unauthorized access to local network sites from the Internet.
The fact is that most of the software does not provide adequate protection for domains without a dot, taking into account their features, since they are now used only in local networks. For example, Internet Explorer perceives them as domains belonging to the local network and automatically assigns them a high level of security. Thus, the safe launch of domains without a dot would be possible only after the security updates of all widely used network equipment and software.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/190520/
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