http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/dot_name New TLDs (Top Level Domains .. extensions like .com, net etc) have a hard enough time drumming up new business and competing with established namespaces like .com net etc without being labeled "crime havens" in Wired. The registries (and registrars for that matter) keep trying to charge for services that were formerly free.. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.. so as they do this they create opportunities for the criminal element to fester.. So goes the argument anyway. This story is sort of shrill. Criminals don't put their real information on whois after all. They engage in...

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