Naming via SDSI

Brandon blanu@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Tue, 6 Mar 2001 21:12:52 -0600 (CST)



> There are already sites that rate registrars. The services would just
> have to add a column to their ratings chart with an estimate of what
> percentage of the hosts on the net can resolve each registrar's domains.
> (Data for this could be collected by putting small images, srced from
> all the new domains, on popular pages.)

This is just moving the trust authority to the registrar rating site. Or
to a trust oligopoly of registrar rating sites. So I'd say it doesn't
actually change the problem at all. You now have to choose you to
trust, you just have a new layer of middlemen.

I'm not saying this isn't better than ICANN. I think it is.