Four companies want to own .con domains
This is genius if you're running a scam and idiotic if you're trying to protect your business.
At best, the winners will force everyone to buy .con versions of their domains to stop phishing typo-squatters. At worst, they're handing scammers a direct pipeline to people looking for businesses and getting the spelling slightly wrong.
ICANN's new gTLD round just approved what might be the dumbest domain extension ever released.
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