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The “bad” domains have something in common. Cybersecurity company DomainTools has published its Spring 2022 Report, naming and shaming top level domains that it says are overrepresented for badness. Rather than rank by absolute numbers of malware, phishing, and spam domains, DomainTools analyzed the prevalence of usage compared to the number of domains registered. And […]
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NetBeacon promises to make abuse reports easier for both parties. DNS Abuse Institute has launched NetBeacon, which it calls the first-ever centralized DNS abuse reporting service. NetBeacon promises to make it easier for domain registrars and registries to receive and handle abuse complaints. It provides these entities with a centralized submission point that enhances complaints. […]
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It’s easy to advocate for fast takedowns, but that can hurt legitimate businesses. On February 20, 2020, Domain Name Wire was down. Anyone who operates a website knows that horrible feeling of finding out your site is down and not being able to understand what’s happening. My day got worse as it progressed. It turned […]
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Spammers and scammers have to get creative to contact domain name owners. This month, a GoDaddy customer received an email shortly after registering a domain name. We’ll call the domain example.com for this story. Subject: example.com isn’t registered yet The message suggested it was in some way coming from GoDaddy. Which it sort of was, […]
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