.info .info is a dangerous name beware

[rocknrollo]

I just read this. Cant be good for these extensions.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080604/ap_on_hi_te/tec_dangerous_domains

McAfee found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are ".hk" (Hong Kong), ".cn" (China) and ".info" (information).

 

[Pred]

well i've been getting spam onslaughts on someof my sites, had to disable comments, was getting 500 a day at one point, and had to individually delete, no bulk feature

extensions?

exclusively .de & .com spammers

 

[Sleepys]

I would say the main reason that scammers use .cn and .info names are because of the cheap registration fees for the first year. The article says that 5% of .com sites and 11.7% of .info sites are scams (both seem too high to me). Considering that .info and .cn are around 1/7th the price, I think that only twice as many scammers is not too bad. :p

 

[domi]

I just read this. Cant be good for these extensions.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080604/ap_on_hi_te/tec_dangerous_domains

McAfee found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are ".hk" (Hong Kong), ".cn" (China) and ".info" (information).

Looks like you have 944.info

 

[Keral_Patel]

I have to admit that one of the guy I know, has infact registered 100 .infos to open spam blogs

Well his idea is not working though but still it isn't good.

 

[rocknrollo]

Looks like you have 944.info

I have about 50 .info's and will continue to buy and good ones I find.

 

[squid]

It's because they're so damn cheap :/

 

[Sleepys]

It's because they're so damn cheap :/

Only for the first year. That's how they get you.

 

[Peter]

Only for the first year. That's how they get you.

It does not matter whether it is only the 1st year or not. Spammers are purchasing the domain for the long haul they expect to lose them soon enough anyway.

 

[Sleepys]

You misunderstood. I was saying that is how the .info registry gets you. :hehe:

 

[tinyhill]

why there are dot"hk" and dot "cn"?