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> Money and technical expertise used to be strong barriers to prevent people from registering scam domains. Cannot confirm. I registered my .de-Domain in 2005.
by MrGilbert 7y ago
> Money and technical expertise used to be strong barriers to prevent people from registering scam domains.
Cannot confirm. I registered my .de-Domain in 2005. That was 15 years ago. It wasn't that difficult, and quite cheap (imho 12€ for a year). So the tech barriers vanished a long time ago.
- edent 7y ago.info domains can now be bought for around €1. If, like the scammers I mentioned, you're buying one for every day of the year, that's a several thousand Euro difference. Spammers are in business. When certain costs fall, it makes their enterprise more profitable.
- ryanlol 7y agoThese spammers make thousands of euros a day if they’re any good. UK fullz can go for like 40usd a pop.
- ailideex 7y agoWhy do they need date specific domain names?
- penagwin 7y agoThey don't have to be date specific but they need fresh ones constantly. They get flagged as malicious quickly (within a day or so for large spam campaigns) so they need fresh ones that aren't flagged. The date is sometimes used to confuse people when they're reading it so they think it's part of the URL and not the actual domain name.
- bduerst 7y agoIntentionally creating inhibitive costs for the sole purpose of preventing bad actors is playing a game of whack a mole. It only temporarily solves the problem and ruins it for the rest of the customers. There are other ways to address scammers that do not involve making the entire market more expensive for expensive's sake.