Yet another proposed way to stop phishing: create a .bank top-level domain (TLD) and market it to banks exclusively, at a forbidding price per domain. Sounds compelling? It isn’t:
- It’s a static solution based on today’s most common attack pattern, phishing attacks against bank customers. The perpetrators, however, could easily change their behavior. They will stick to phishing only as long as it is the cheapest working method. They can choose different victims and alternative methods.