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Are we about to see our next gTLD registry implosion? ICANN has whacked the company behind .gdn with a breach notice and a threat that it may seize the TLD, after its Whois systems allegedly suffered days of downtime. According to ICANN, .gdn exceeded ...
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April 12, 2021 Kevin Murphy
alpnames, compliance, Domain Registries, ebero, intracom, Navigation-information systems, nis, rdds, Spam
There is a tremendous amount of spam circulating 24/7 and domain investors often receive hundreds of emails daily. In recent years I’ve identified the two primary reasons unsolicited email has increased in volume: Cheap, throwaway domain names, a...
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March 2, 2021 Theo Develegas
.cyou, block tld, Cloudflare, domain spammers, Namecheap, Spam
TGIF and welcome to another round of relentless spam, courtesy of NameCheap as the domain registrar, and Cloudflare as the DNS proxy provider. This duo really enhances serial spammers’ ability to hide and send out spam from cheap, disposable doma...
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December 11, 2020 DomainGang
Cloudflare, Domain Crime, domain spam, Namecheap, serial spammers, Spam, Spammers
After 11 years on Twitter, we are now blocked by domain registrar NameCheap. The trigger: We pointed out abusive domain registrations – at a discount – and the pattern is typically the same: NameCheap as the domain registrar, Cloudflare as ...
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July 14, 2020 DomainGang
abuse, Editorial, Namecheap, Spam
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
Another new gTLD has joined the exclusive list of those to enter seven figures in terms of domains under management. .icu, managed by ShortDot, topped one million names this week, according to COO Kevin Kopas. It’s taken about a month for DUM to ...
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July 3, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ICU, shortdot, Spam
China’s eName joins the crowd of registrar “brokers” that spam domain owners with unsolicited offers. If you thought that GoDaddy’s practice of using a team of brokers to reach out on behalf of their customers was frustrating en...
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March 27, 2019 DomainGang
domain brokers, domain spam, ename, eName spam, registrar brokers, Spam
The web site of controversial registrar AlpNames has been offline for “days”, and rumors have started to circulate that it might not just a technical problem. At time of writing, alpnames.com resolves to a Cloudflare error page, warning tha...
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March 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy
alpnames, compliance, Domain Registrars, domain venture partners, downtime, dvp, Famous Four Media, ffm, namepros, outages, Spam
The number of detected phishing attacks almost halved last year, despite the fact that new Whois privacy rules have made it cheaper for attackers to hide their identities. There were 138,328 attacks in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to the Anti-...
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March 5, 2019 Kevin Murphy
apwg, Domain Policy, phishing, Spam