Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

ICANN Launches Service to Help With WHOIS Lookups

December 6, 2023 admin Catalin Cimpanu, GDPR, ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, rdrs, registration data request service, Security Tools

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:51:58 +0000

More than five years after domain name registrars started redacting personal data from all public domain registration records, the non-profit organization overseeing the domain industry has introduced a centralized online service designed to make it easier for researchers, law enforcement and others to request the information directly from registrars.

Independent Krebs

Bad .Men at .Work. Please Don’t .Click

June 11, 2018 admin .accountant, .bid, .click, .country, .date, .gdn, .jetzt, .kim, .loan, .mom, .ren, .stream, .vip, .wang, .win, .xin, A Little Sunshine, download, ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, men, Namecheap, new TLD spam, new TLDs, OpenDNS, party, racing, Review, Richard Kirkendall, spamhaus, Symantec, Top 20 Shady Top-Level Domains, Trade, work

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:42:39 +0000

Web site names ending in new top-level domains (TLDs) like .men, .work and .click are some of the riskiest and spammy-est on the Internet, according to experts who track such concentrations of badness online. Not that there still aren’t a whole mess of nasty .com, .net and .biz domains out there, but relative to their size (i.e. overall number of domains) these newer TLDs are far dicier to visit than most online destinations.