ICANN Corporation declared on appointing Paul Mockapetris Senior Security Advisor of its Common Domain Names Department. Mockapetris is known as DNS system creator and is a very influential figure in Internet developers and domain industry community.
The sphere of Paul Mockapetris’ responsibilities on his new job is yet unknown. Many observers relate this appointment with Mockapetris’ position on new domain names introduction. DNS creator actively supports this idea. In particular, he strictly criticized Verisign company which manages .com domain zone, who is by all means trying to break new domains introduction by pointing out that their creation can lead to serious trouble due to string similarity in new addresses to internal system commands. According to Paul Mockapetris this problem has already appeared before and isn’t of great difficulty.
