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Years ago .info had the reputation of being only used by scammers/phishers. I knew several small mail service providers that just blocked *.info by default sinc
by sybercecurity 3y ago
Years ago .info had the reputation of being only used by scammers/phishers. I knew several small mail service providers that just blocked *.info by default since the majority of delegations were not legitimate. Every new TLD suffers from this at first as there is a land rush by criminals.
I think people are more worried about TLDs like .zip (and .app) since they look familiar to normal users and they routinely click on those and don't think about them being a valid URL now.
- JohnFen 3y agoNot just .info. Because of that, as unfair as it is, to this day when I see one of the extended TLDs, I get more suspicious about the site. I tend to avoid them unless I'm very sure they're legit.
- NikkiA 3y ago.biz is the one I always remember as being scam-central
- bonyt 3y agoIt's weird how entire TLDs get reputations like that. NY's transit agency - the MTA - used (and still uses) the domain mta.info. My high school blocked that domain, along with every other info domain. I have a .xyz domain that I briefly wanted to use for email, but services blocked it based entirely off the TLD. Using the same mail service (fastmail) I could send mail from my .net domains.