Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

December 3, 2024 admin @chenlun, A Little Sunshine, and mobile anti-abuse working group, Anti-Phishing Working Group, coalition against unsolicited commercial email, ICANN, interisle consulting, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, John Levine, Latest Warnings, malware, messaging, new gtlds, phishing, spam, The Coming Storm, U.S. Postal Service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:27:31 +0000

Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such as .shop, .top, .xyz — that attract scammers with rock-bottom prices and no meaningful registration requirements, new research finds. Meanwhile, the nonprofit entity that oversees the domain name industry is moving forward with plans to introduce a slew of new gTLDs.

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Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice

July 23, 2024 admin .top, A Little Sunshine, Anti-Phishing Working Group, dave piscitello, interisle consulting group, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, jiangsu bangning science & technology co. ltd, Latest Warnings, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 19:41:51 +0000

The Chinese company in charge of handing out domain names ending in “.top” has been given until mid-August 2024 to show that it has put in place systems for managing phishing reports and suspending abusive domains, or else forfeit its license to sell domains. The warning comes amid the release of new findings that .top was the most common suffix in phishing websites over the past year, second only to domains ending in “.com.”

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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.

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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.