RE: [registrars] WG: [council] Fast Flux DNS

["John Berryhill" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have not received
> one using a gTLD domain name for at least weeks, probably months.

People who are reading HTML email wrongly assume that because they see a URL
in the anchor text for a hyperlink, that a domain name is being used when,
most of the time, it is simply presenting that text as a link to an IP
address.

Aside from consumer education, instead of charging $50 per year for ID Theft
Protection, and thus making crime a profit center, financial institutions
can take relatively simple measures to reduce phishing.  Bank of America is
one of the more enlightened institutions in that regard - instead of having
a login/password screen, the login process is a dialog that presents a
pre-selected image and text to the user after presentation of the login ID,
and THEN presents a password entry prompt.  Hence, the user knows whether or
not they are looking at a genuine BoA login dialog.  

It's a lot cheaper, though, to charge your own customers for ID theft
protection, offload security costs onto regulated groups, and then pretend
one has done something about ID theft.

John