Re: [RE: [wg-c] Excellent suggestion from slashdot -- apparently

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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On 31-Dec-1969 Richard wrote:
> DoC's Becky Burr actually proposed that country code idea (banks.us) to me as
> an option, though it still seems ergonomicaly a bit cumbersome. The idea for
> the FDIC would be to have a controlled domain, the membership being literally
> restricted to those with a charter, which would be easy to remember and
> verify. Certainly, a chartered TLD would fit that bill, though I wonder if
> unlimited TLDs could be another tower of babel. 

The DNS is the absolute worse way to promote this concept.  The much better way
of doing it is to have a licensed "FDIC Insured" graphic image, which is linked
to a database link on the FDIC website which can be used to verify the status
of the bank referenced on the website.  Much like what Verisign and Thawte use
for people with SSL Certs to link to on their sites, so that their clients can
verify that the SSL Cert was issued to the party they are doing business with.

This is much more efficient, and much easier to setup, and even more secure.

The DNS is not the end all answer for all things internet.  

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