The Chinese company in charge of handing out domain names ending in “.top” has been given until mid-August 2024 to show that it has put in place systems for managing phishing reports and suspending abusive domains, or else forfeit its license to sell domains. The warning comes amid the release of new findings that .top was the most common suffix in phishing websites over the past year, second only to domains ending in “.com.”
The report includes a case study in which a phisher this year registered 17,562 domains over the course of an eight-hour period — roughly 38 domains per minute — using .lol domains that were all composed of random letters.
At $1.80 per domain, that’s about $28k on domains.
greenshirtdenimjeans@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Not even joking, thought this was about the band.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Same. I didn’t think I’ve ever heard the term used as a verb, it’s always “phishing”!