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Namecheap and the EFF are apparently interlinked, and not in a good way. That’s the focus of an article posted on CircleID, “the world’s leading platform for Internet developments.” The article expands on the Facebook lawsuit fi...
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March 13, 2020 DomainGang
CircleID, eff, Facebook lawsuit, Facebook sued Namecheap, Namecheap, Spamhaus
SpamHaus, a global keeper of domain and IP violations, maintains a list of abusive behavior originating from a large variety of gTLDs and TLDs. How does SpamHaus measure that type of negative performance among domain extensions? The abusive behavior of...
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December 30, 2019 DomainGang
abuse, dot .TOP, Spam, Spamhaus, top 10 most abused TLDs
Despite going out of business, being terminated by ICANN, and losing all its domains several months ago, defunct AlpNames is still being listed as the world’s most-abused registrar by a leading spam-fighting organization. SpamHaus currently ranks...
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December 6, 2019 Kevin Murphy
alpnames, Domain Registrars, Spam, Spamhaus
Every month, SpamHaus releases a list of the most abused TLDs. It then calculates an index, based on the percentage of abusive domains in a given TLD, ccTLD or gTLD. In other words, it’s not the absolute number of “bad domains” but the rati...
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March 1, 2019 DomainGang
Spamhaus, SpamHaus abused TLDs, ten most abused tlds
Malware activity monitor, SpamHaus, keeps track of the number of bad domains spewing out spam, for every TLD, ccTLD and gTLD. In other words, it’s not the absolute number of “bad domains” but the ratio that determines how bad a TLD, gTLD or ccTLD is. H...
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October 14, 2018 DomainGang
Spamhaus, SpamHaus abused TLDs, top 10 most abused TLDs, Top 10 Most Abused Top Level Domains
.CLUB Domains has seen the amount of spam in .club double a month after seeing a huge registration spike prompted by a deep discount deal. The registry saw its domains under management go up by about 200,000 names over a few days in early August, large...
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September 11, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.club domains, Domain Registries, Spam, Spamhaus
Every month, SpamHaus releases a list of the most abused TLDs. It then calculates an index, based on the percentage of abusive domains in a given TLD, ccTLD or gTLD. In other words, it’s not the absolute number of “bad domains” but the rati...
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April 9, 2018 DomainGang
Spamhaus, SpamHaus abused TLDs, ten most abused tlds
SpamHaus operates a publicly available index of domain name and IP violations, and maintains a list of abusive behavior originating from a large variety of gTLDs and TLDs. How does SpamHaus calculate that? The abusive behavior of domain TLDs is measure...
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February 27, 2018 DomainGang
Spam, Spamhaus, top 10 most abused TLDs
NameCheap and Uniregistry have emerged as two of the most-abused domain name companies, using statistics on botnet command and control centers released by SpamHaus this week. SpamHaus data shows that over a quarter of all botnet C&Cs found during ...
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January 9, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.ru, abuse, Domain Registrars, Namecheap, Spamhaus
SpamHaus, a keeper of domain and IP violations globally, maintains a list of abusive behavior that originates from a large variety of gTLDs and TLDs. The abusive behavior of domain TLDs is measured by the ratio of abusive domains existing in a given TL...
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December 15, 2017 DomainGang
Spamhaus, Spamhaus list, Top 10 Most Abused Top Level Domains