Nominet solves rogue domain seller problem
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Transfer price reduction removes incentive. Nominet has gone a long way toward solving the problem of rogue domain sellers in the UK by reducing transfer fees.â¦
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WholeSecurity's new software claims to identify fraudulent sites.
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Network Solutions, a major registrar of Internet domain names, counters accusations it's grabbing domain names after customers show an interest but before they register them.
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'It's not a dirty trick. It's a security measure' Network Solutions is front running domain name registrations, temporarily preventing competitors from selling domains that web users show interest in. But the popular registrar insists this is merely a way of preventing others from front running.â¦
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Vendors ship updated packages to fix the problem that could allow an attacker to take control of a system.
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(InfoWorld) - Cheap or free registration of new domain names drives the growth in Web sites used for spamming or hosting malicious software, according to research from McAfee. The study, released Monday, highlights continuing problems concerning how Web sites are registered and the ease with which bad actors can change Web sites to continue online scams. McAfee analyzed 8.1 million of the world's most trafficked Web sites registered on 265 top-level domains (TLDs), such as ".com" and ".biz" along with country-specific ones, such as ".jp" for Japan. McAfee offers a free tool, SiteAdvisor, that determines if Web sites send spam, host bad programs or have excessive pop-ups. McAfee, which bought SiteAdvisor in April 2006, also offers a pay version with more advanced features. Small islands with their own TLDs remain troublesome. For example, some 18.5 percent of Web sites registered under the ".st" TLD are considered "risky" for either spam or other malicious activity, McAfee said. The TLD belongs to Sao Tome and Principe, a country of two volcanic islands west of Gabon. Tokelau (.tk), a territory of New Zealand in the south Pacific, and Niue (.nu), also in the south Pacific east of Tonga, give out domains for free. That's good for scammers, who often need to register new domains as older ones are blocked by security software. Niue also allows anonymous registration of Web sites. Nine years ago the country declared "no tolerance" policy against spammers, but McAfee said it wasn't a deterrent. The safest TLDs belong to countries with stronger registration rules. Japan, Ireland, Sweden and Finland require a local postal address, while businesses in Norway have to register with the government to get a ".no" domain. Consequently, McAfee found the lowest percentage of bad Web sites in those domains. Australia and Canada, McAfee said, require a local contact for registration, which often deters spammer since registrations take more time. The ".info" domain ranked first among generic TLDs for its percentage of risky sites, at 7.5 percent, McAfee said. The domain also hosts many Web sites that send "spammy" e-mail, the vendor said. SiteAdvisor submits an e-mail address to Web sites and counts how many e-mails are received. Users have a 73.2 percent chance of receiving a spam e-mail by giving their address to a random ".info" site, McAfee said. The ".com" domain -- created in the 1980s -- came in second for risk, with 5.5 percent of its Web sites considered questionable, McAfee said. Â
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Who should run the UK internet registry? Podcast Two spaces on the board of UK registry owner Nominet will be decided at the company's annual general meeting this Wednesday.â¦
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Network Solutions is standing by its controversial policy of automatically registering some domain names that are the subject of searches on the companyâs Web site.
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A security researcher demonstrates a way to use cross site scripting to remotely spam an internal network printer.
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Open-source spam blocker gets legal makeover with switch to Apache license. Oh, and tech upgrades.
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New York-based Internet service provider Panix is working to recover from an apparent domain-name hijacking.
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Portal says DomainKey use will protect users from ID theft and phishing scams.
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Blog: Popular add-ons could have their update process hijacked by man-in-the-middle attacks.
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A screensaver targeting spam-related websites could help drive spammers out of business.
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Web designer holds out against extortion Web designer David Airey has succeeded in recovering his domain after hackers exploited flaws in Gmail to trick his hosts into authorising a fraudulent transfer.â¦
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The Internet's domain name system is in danger of being swamped by speculators who harvest expired site names and re-register them, a practice that could make it harder to fight cybersquatters, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization.
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A practice used by scammers to siphon off hits from users who misspell URLs in their browsers could be rendered impossible this year, as the organization responsible for the Internet's domain name system may end the program that makes the practice possible.