.US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service

Thu Nov 2 22:09:52 UTC 2023

I think it is a matter of proportionality. 

According to Spamhaus malicious domains account for only 1.5% of all .com domains, but 4.8% of all .us domains (https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/) - compare that to .tk where 6.7% of all domains are malicious. 

allan

------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 at 4:46 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 1:30 PM goemon--- via NANOG nanog at nanog.org wrote:
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> > https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/us-harbors-prolific-malicious-link-shortening-service/
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> > What hope is there when registrars are actively aiding and abeting criminal enterprises?
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> I'm confused. Does .com/.net/.org have a different/better
> vulnerability profile to these third party link shorteners?
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> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
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> William Herrin
> bill at herrin.us
> https://bill.herrin.us/