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[ NNSquad ] "Domain Protection Racket" Promotion on Network Solutions Home Page
"Domain Protection Racket" Promotion on Network Solutions Home Page This "in your face" promotion currently running on the Network Solutions home page clearly illustrates how the current top-level domains (gTLD) expansion plan is akin to a traditional "Sign up now or something bad might, uh, happen to you, buddy!" protection racket. http://j.mp/ofrzyv (Lauren's Blog - Screen capture from networksolutions.com) As you can see, there is no concept of community service, social responsibility, or even real "value-added" benefits. The promotion for two TLDs is explicitly about *protection* -- as in protecting yourself from someone else grabbing those domains and making you look bad, confusing your customers, and worse -- whether you have any real interest in those TLDs or not. And this is *only the beginning*, my friends. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com