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“ top was the most common suffix in phishing websites over the past year, second only to domains ending in “.com.” So should we default not allow .com?
by ErikAugust 2y ago
“ top was the most common suffix in phishing websites over the past year, second only to domains ending in “.com.”
So should we default not allow .com?
- BobbyJo 2y agoQuality is relative. A far larger percentage of .com domains are legitimate.
- Volundr 2y agoPer the article 0.2% of .com domains are phishing vs 4.2% of .top. Or put another way, if you have a .top domain it's about 17 times as likely to be phishing than a .com domain. .com has the most phishing domains by virtue of by far being the biggest, not because they have looser controls or are less reliable.
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- arp242 2y agoOnly if you select a random domain from a list of all .com or .top domains. No one does that of course. The chance a random .top (or .com) you encounter is a phishing domain isn't so easily calculated, depends on where you see it, etc.