McAfee reveals that the most dangerous websites are those hosted on “.hk” (Hong Kong), “.cn” (China) and “.info” (information) domains. Dangerous — meaning, malicious malware sites or just plain old spammy sites.
Of all “.hk” sites McAfee tested, it flagged 19.2 percent as dangerous or potentially dangerous to visitors; it flagged 11.8 percent of “.cn” sites and 11.7 percent of “.info” sites that way. That’s 1 in every 5 .HK domains!
Other risky domains include “.ro” (Romania), with 6.8 percent, and “.ru” (Russia), with 6 percent of sites flagged as dangerous.
A little more than 5 percent of the sites under the “.com” domain — the world’s most popular — were identified as dangerous. dotPH sites are nowhere on the list, which is good right?
{source: Associated Press}
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Twitter: kmendoza
replied on Jun 5th, 2008 at 7:50 am (1)
.INFO domain extensions were considered as a spammers domain if I’m not mistaken?
Also, most ccTLD’s like the China one’s are harmful due to their undescribed and unclear content IMO.
@Kenneth, correct. Maybe because you can register a .info domain very cheap. ooopss..i got a .info domain. hehe.
Twitter: ramfree17
replied on Jun 5th, 2008 at 8:11 am (3)
.ph are not in the list because of the exorbitant prices being charged for it. and filipinos have a reputation of wanting more for less so they opt for the more non-localized or cheap domains (like .info and .tk).
ciao!
“The Philippines (.ph) experienced a 270% increase in overall riskiness”
The pdf report showed that .ph got riskier.
http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/press/corporate/2008/20080604_181010_g.html
So much for China’s Great Firewall lol
It’s a firewall to protect their citizens from us, not to protect us from them. Haha joke only :p
Well, that’s the very reason why I stopped using my .info domains and switched to other TLDs or ccTLDs (not .ph tho, too expensive, not even in my list of ccTLDs to consider and recommend).
Twitter: kzapkzap
replied on Jun 5th, 2008 at 8:57 pm (7)
No spammers can afford .ph
.ph domains pWns spammers.
so, next time, i will use the .ph for spamming …. LOL
Lol @SELaplana
I guess being expensive keeps the domain from being use for spamming. Haha.