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Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom

May 26, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, awpg ecrime exchange, dave piscitello, freenom, interisle consulting group, Mastodon, meta, Namecheap, openphish, phishtank, spamhaus

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 16:37:15 +0000

The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped precipitously in the months surrounding a recent lawsuit from social networking giant Meta, which alleged the free domain name provider has a long history of ignoring abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains.

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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.