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Report on Best and Worst Anti-Phishing Domain Registrars

The performance of registrars in decommissioning domain names connected to fraud scams is all over the map. A "brandjacking" report released last month by MarkMonitor is the first to include a list of the top 10 best and worst lists of registrar performance in revoking domain names connected to phishing scams.

Domain name registrars can play a crucial role in getting phishing sites shut down, as most phishing sites use some kind of Web site name in their scam. According to the latest stats from the Anti-Phishing Working Group, 84 percent of scam sites spotted in August used a registered Web site name (the other 16 percent of phishing sites were advertised in spam as numeric Internet addresses - http://123.143.13.256, for example).

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Related topics: Cybercrime, Cybersquatting, DNS, Domain Names, Security, Spam

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Re: Report on Best and Worst Anti-Phishing Domain Registrars Suresh Ramasubramanian  –  Dec 13, 2007 10:24 AM PDT

Not the most accurate of studies. And to be frank, Brian Krebs normally doesnt take PR generated cry wolf whitepapers at face value. Oh well, I guess there should have been enough feedback about it [there is some in the comments of that securityfix blog] that he'd probably consider doing a followup that takes some of markmonitors rankings apart.

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