Wanted: Internet Url Police

As the Haiti relief flowed to the disaster area, scammers were registering exploitative domain names and setting up false charity websites to target well-meaning donaters. The London Daily News featured a story on the opportunistic and fraudulent nature of these scams, but experts wonder if an Internet policing authority might not be appropriate to take down sites before the public gets scammed. When you are one url away from getting fleeced, wouldn’t it be prudent to have set some domain handling controls in place?

Icann Forms Up In July for ccTLD’s

ICANN has consolidated and developed the ccTLD platforms for the following countries in July 2009: Portugal, Paraguay, Vanuatu, and Haiti.

 

2 July 2009	ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Portugal (.PT)
1 July 2009	ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Paraguay (.PY)
1 July 2009	ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Vanuatu (.VU)
1 July 2009	ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Uruguay (.UY)
1 July 2009	ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Haiti (.HT)