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Re:Phish-Friendly Domain Registry ".top" Put on Notice by Volundr on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @01:45PM (#41059673)
Per the article 0.2% of .com domains are phishing vs 4.2% of .top. Or put another way, if you have a .top domain it's about 17 times as likely to be phishing than a .com domain.

.com has the most phishing domains by virtue of by far being the biggest, not because they have looser controls or are less reliable.

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Re:Phish-Friendly Domain Registry ".top" Put on Notice by arp242 on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @02:35PM (#41060241)
Only if you select a random domain from a list of all .com or .top domains. No one does that of course. The chance a random .top (or .com) you encounter is a phishing domain isn't so easily calculated, depends on where you see it, etc.
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