Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

Re:Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz by dmurray on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @10:43AM (#42307351)

> new gTLDs introduced in the last few years command just 11 percent of the market for new domains, but accounted for roughly 37 percent of cybercrime domains reported between September 2023 and August 2024.

> .com and .net domains made up approximately half of all domains registered...they accounted for just over 40 percent of all cybercrime domains.

Hardly earth shattering. .net and .com are still pulling 80% of their weight when it comes to cybercrime. And the article concludes that the main reason the new TLDs are disproportionately used is because you can sometimes buy them cheap in bulk.

Maybe the real story here is that the ccTLD registrars, who weren't mentioned, are disproportionately good at deterring cybercrime.

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Re:Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz by zinekeller on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @10:58AM (#42307570)

> Maybe the real story here is that the ccTLD registrars, who weren't mentioned, are disproportionately good at deterring cybercrime.

I think that some ccTLDs requiring positive identification, usually as a side effect of residency or nationality requirements, immensely help here (versus most gTLDs requiring f***-all identification).

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Re:Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz by hyperhopper on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @08:40PM (#42313711)

I definitely don't want to move to a system where making a website needs both a government and a private corporation vouching for you. That's the worst case scenario.

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Re:Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz by reaperducer on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:41AM (#42308148)

.net and .com are still pulling 80% of their weight when it comes to cybercrime.

The article states it's half that.

"while .com and .net domains made up approximately half of all domains registered in the past year… they accounted for just over 40 percent of all cybercrime domains. Interisle says an almost equal share — 37 percent — of cybercrime domains were registered through new gTLDs."

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Re:Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz by a_gray on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @12:19PM (#42308588)

> The article states it's half that.

No, the article agrees with dmurray. Read again: 80% of 50% is 40%.

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Re:Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz by bloppe on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @12:41PM (#42319866)

You seem to be implying that 80% of com/net domains are used for cybercrime, which is not a sound conclusion from those numbers. You're confusing "percent of all domains" with "percent of crime domains". You can't just divide them to get something meaningful.

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Re:Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz by calfuris on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @01:51PM (#42320644)

No, the statement was that ".net and .com are still pulling 80% of their weight when it comes to cybercrime." I read that as saying that .net and .com domains show up in cybercrime 80% as often as would be expected if all TLDs were equally likely to be used for cybercrime.

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