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Suresh,

I'm very pleased to see that you posted this summary, since I was thinking of doing so in a similar fashion (but I'm glad you beat me to it).

As you mentioned, the McAfee report used data from a period that was long enough to include the horrible issues that HKIRC/HKDNR suffered prior to "cleaning up their act", and to tell you the truth, I give them a lot of credit for finally cleaning up their act. No if we could get other registries/registrars to do the same…

Last week during the 2nd Annual APWG Counter eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS II), Bonnie Chun from HKIRC/HKDNR gave a presentation which provided an overview of how they have worked with the security community, HK-CERT, and law enforcement in Hong Kong (and abroad) to clean up criminal domain abuse in the .HK ccTLD.

So, while .HK may have once been a "bad neighborhood" with regards to malicious domains, etc., I certainly would not consider it to be any more dangerous than, say, .US or .EU in the grand scheme of things—especially not any more.

Thanks for the post—and see you around. :-)

- ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Internet Security Intelligence
Advanced Threats Research
Trend Micro, Inc., Cupertino, California USA

We (outblaze) live in HK - its a great city and I'd hate for it to be considered a bad neighborhood, even online.  :)