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On 5/5/25 08:51, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2025 at 14:28, Daniele Varrazzo
> <daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As someone less naïve than me might have figured out, this is most
> likely a scam.
> 
> However I don't see impossible that someone may start claiming to be
> "more psycopg than us", register the .com domain with a mirror site
> and start pushing malicious content.
> 
> Are there reasonable things to do in that case? Are there precedents
> to use as reference? I'd be curious to know.

The simplest is defensive registration, registering variations of the 
domain in the projects name.

Here is what looks to be a pretty clear look at the basic issues:

https://bpp.msu.edu/magazine/domain-name-strategy-to-protect-brand-identity-september2020/

> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- Daniele
> 
> 

-- 
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com