Acidus wrote:
Only one entity has shopping.com, and they probably had to pay a pretty penny for it. Odds that this is a dangerous site that will harm me, or steal my credit card, etc are very low.

What I've read leads me to believe that the Internet is a "dangerous" place. Nothing served over an unencrypted connection can be trusted. Even trusted sites like cnn.com can serve advertisements that deliver the malware of the week.
Moreover, I don't see how allowing a (spammer/domain parker) to register google.search is any worse than allowing them to register any one of the common misspellings.

Acidus wrote:
What problem are you trying to solve Tom? That spammers have all the good names? Is the solution to that radically changing the way internet naming works?

How is adding a skrillion new TLDs radically changing the way that internet naming works?

RE: ICANN == Whores