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June 11, 2018

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

This post was originally published on this siteWeb 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. There are many sources for measuring domain reputation online, but one of the newest is The 10 Most Abused Top Level […]
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December 6, 2023

ICANN Launches Service to Help With WHOIS Lookups

This post was originally published on this siteMore 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. In May 2018, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) — the nonprofit entity that manages the global domain name system — instructed all registrars to redact the customer’s name, address, phone number and email from WHOIS, the system for querying databases […]
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