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Re:New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC) by aingisni_del on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @08:06AM (#38841240)
>>>uses the world's most notorious domain extension doesn't inspire confidence, to put it mildly.

What does this mean? Why or how is this TLD the world’s most notorious?

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Re:New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC) by throw0101d on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @08:16AM (#38841304)
> The .su TLD is known for usage by cybercriminals.[4][5][6]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su

I would think that ICANN/whomever would have mandated its retirement / de-orbit, but a special exception was asked for:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Exceptional...

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Re:New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC) by lifthrasiir on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @12:36AM (#38851114)
All three references are 10 years old (or only have a secondary reference that is 10 years old). More recent analyses give much more diverse set of TLDs---.ga, .tk, .us, .ru, .ml, .pw and so on [1]. In fact, at this point we should be much more concerned about .us than .su.

[1] https://www.interisle.net/PhishingLandscape2023.pdf#page=18

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