registrars Dofo is helping domain registrars stop coronavirus related scam

[Macit]

The coronavirus pandemic has become one of the biggest global crises we see. Hundreds of millions of people are affected by the epidemic.

Crisis or not, cyber criminals are continuing to scamming.

During this unprecedented global crisis, Dofo is offering complimentary antiscam solutions to domain registrars, registries, hosting providers and all kind of organizations need to stop coronavirus related scam attacks.




By using the Stop Coronavirus Scam API:
* Domain registrars & registries can prevent such fraudulent domain registration,
* Hosting providers can prevent hosting such scamming websites,
* Security teams can block such address to protect their employees and customers and so.

Note: This API doesn't tell you if the given domain name is scam or not. It says it might be suspicious or not by looking at the keywords it contains.

More details: https://dofo.com/covid19

 

[branding]

How do you determine the likelihood of a domain possibly being used in a scam operation?

 

[Chinwong]

This is a great step in stopping fraudulent domain names from been registered.

 

[Macit]

How do you determine the likelihood of a domain possibly being used in a scam operation?

The "Stop Coronavirus Scam API" checks if the domain name contains coronavirus related keywords such as corona, covid19, vaccine, etc. and it also uses some similarity algorithms. It doesn't directly say it's a scam, it says it's suspicious.

 

[Macit]

We also started publishing the list of coronavirus related domains.
It's updated every hour.

https://publicapi.dofo.com/covid19-domains

There are ~100,000 domain names in the list, as of April 2.