Maliciously Registered Domains Decline As 4 in 5 Phishing Domains In .COM, .TK and .INFO
April 26, 2013

[news release] A new phishing survey released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) at its conference in Buenos Aires...

APWG Report: Phishing Websites Proliferate at Record Speed in First Half of 2012
October 25, 2012

[APWG news release] A new phishing survey released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) at their conference here this...

.TK Becomes Third Largest ccTLD With A Little Help From Phishing
December 26, 2011

The latest Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief noted that the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for Tokelau's ccTLD, .TK entered the top ten largest top level domain rankings as the seventh largest, moving ahead of .NL (Netherlands) which moved from seventh to eighth. It also sees .TK becoming the world's third largest ccTLD behind .DE (Germany) and .UK (United Kingdom). 7490

Facebook, Google Most Popular Type-In Domain Names
July 27, 2011

Most people may use a search engine to go to their website of choice, but there are still some internet users who go to at least some of their websites by typing in the domain name, and the most popular type-in is Facebook.com followed by Google.com. And if you want to typosquat a domain name, the best domain name to have is Faceboook.com. 3669

.CN’s Tightened Registration Policy Sees Phishers Go To CO.CC And .TK
July 11, 2011

The tightening of registration policies for .CN domain names by CNNIC has seen a rapid decline in the number of phishers using .CN domain names and an increase in the use of other top level domains and services, and in particular the CO.CC sub-domain and .TK country code TLD. 3639

Swiss Among World Leaders in Enabling DNSSEC
February 3, 2010

SWITCH, the registry for .CH and .LI domain names, enabled DNSSEC on day two of the annual Domain Pulse conference in Luzern...

Domain Name Security Gains Prominence in German-Speaking World
February 2, 2010

The 2010 Domain Pulse, hosted by SWITCH (the .CH registry) was held in the snowy Swiss city of Luzern. Domain Name Security...

DNS.BE Cancels 163 Domains Due to Fraudulent Use
February 8, 2009

DNS.BE cancelled 163 domain names last week by order of a magistrate, following their use for fraudulent purposes. DNS...

China Suspends 300 Phishing Website Domain Names
November 25, 2008

According to Anti-Phishing Alliance of China, by October 30, 2008 it had suspended the domain names of more than 300 Chinese phishing websites with the help of the anti-phishing system based on the .CN domain names reports ChinaTechNews.com. 1947

Domain Registrars Make Strides to Protect Internet from Phishing
October 29, 2008

[news release] The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), in consultation with the ICANN Registrar Constituency and several domain name registrars, has published a "best practices" advisory for registrars to help them implement mechanisms to make it more difficult to register and use domains for illicit uses such as phishing, a confidence scheme used to dupe consumers out of personal financial information. 1895

New Policies Mean .info gTLD to be Safer
October 9, 2008

Afilias have announced policy changes to make .info they hope will be an effective deterrence to abuses such as phishing...

Beware of Online Brand Scams and Frauds
October 5, 2008

For all the good of the internet, like probably any thing, place or activity, there is also a dark side. This article from Law.com looks at the bad side of the internet and gives a layman's description of the nefarious ways in which domain names, and the internet in a wider sense, are used. 1792

92 % down on phishing Says HKDNR
June 10, 2008

It seems HKDNR have released a report in response to the McAfee Report with .HK domain names being the primary domain name...