~~~ Biometric-passport.com ~~~

[katherine]

Biometric-passport.com

Hot domain.
For background info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport

Domain details:
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Registrar: REGISTERFLY.COM, INC.
Expiration Date: 19-sep-2007
Traffic: a couple hits/month
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First $150 takes it.
Multi-forum post.

Thanks
Kate


The sales pitch:

The tragic events of September 11, 2001, have led to a closer examination of security measures that might have foiled those devastating attacks and that might prevent similar attacks in the future. Prominent among the various measures being considered is the use of devices that check a person's identity using biometric identifiers such as fingerprints, iris/retina, or facial patterns. Soon after the attacks, Larry Ellison, head of California-based software company Oracle Corporation, advocated the deployment of mandatory national ID cards with fingerprint information to be matched against a national database of digital fingerprints to confirm the identity of the card's carrier. There have been recent discussions between the United States and the European Union concerning the creation of biometric passports.

Biometric identifiers are of course widely used by people to identify each other – one might recognize a friend by the sound of her voice, the color of her eyes, or the shape of her face. Devices using biometric identifiers attempt to automate this process by comparing the information scanned in real time against an "authentic" sample stored digitally in a database. The technology has had several teething problems, but now appears poised to become a common feature in the technological landscape...