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I thought that I had seen every trick in the book to exploit someone else's good Dot-Com. Cybersquatting, typosquatting, redirecting, hijacking, reverse hijacking, and now the Chinese's .com.cn.
Imagine that you see www.yourdomain.com.cn. At first blush, it looks like it is yours, and it is a Dot-Com. But upon closer examination you notice that following the .com is a "." and not a "/" Then it hits you, your domain is not yours, but a .cn with a sub domain of .com, preceded by your domain name. Clever. The Chinese Dot-Com is a trap for the unwary.
I reported this problem to ICANN and the FBI's Cybercrimes Unit. I would think that with all of the cybercrime coming out of China nowadays that someone over here ought to do something to head off a possible new wave of piracy.
I am still waiting to hear from ICANN. They should be able to do something about this because they did something about the clever people who were briefly registering a hyphen after domain names but before the actual Dot-Coms, like www.loans-.com. ICANN held that such domains were misleading. Using their logic, it follows that the dot.com.cn is also misleading because the only distinction between it and a real .com is the "/" .
Anyone have any thoughts on this issue? I would ask that a lot of you send ICANN a complaint letter. If enough of you do so then perhaps ICANN will withdraw the .com.cn.
One final thought. Quickly look at ebay.com.cn/register/names/credit.htm and ebay.com/cn/register/names/credit.htm Do you see how the .com.cn is a scammers horn-o-plenty of opportunity? By the way, the preceding two domain addresses are fictional and used for illustrative purposes only.
Imagine that you see www.yourdomain.com.cn. At first blush, it looks like it is yours, and it is a Dot-Com. But upon closer examination you notice that following the .com is a "." and not a "/" Then it hits you, your domain is not yours, but a .cn with a sub domain of .com, preceded by your domain name. Clever. The Chinese Dot-Com is a trap for the unwary.
I reported this problem to ICANN and the FBI's Cybercrimes Unit. I would think that with all of the cybercrime coming out of China nowadays that someone over here ought to do something to head off a possible new wave of piracy.
I am still waiting to hear from ICANN. They should be able to do something about this because they did something about the clever people who were briefly registering a hyphen after domain names but before the actual Dot-Coms, like www.loans-.com. ICANN held that such domains were misleading. Using their logic, it follows that the dot.com.cn is also misleading because the only distinction between it and a real .com is the "/" .
Anyone have any thoughts on this issue? I would ask that a lot of you send ICANN a complaint letter. If enough of you do so then perhaps ICANN will withdraw the .com.cn.
One final thought. Quickly look at ebay.com.cn/register/names/credit.htm and ebay.com/cn/register/names/credit.htm Do you see how the .com.cn is a scammers horn-o-plenty of opportunity? By the way, the preceding two domain addresses are fictional and used for illustrative purposes only.