Re: [mwp] Ummmm, did they actually look at any of those .info sites?

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Alex Eckelberry to Rob Slade:

> Why use .info when you can have chase-online-banking-survey.com instead?

Yeah, but why use chase-online-banking-survey.com when you can use 
chase-online-banking-survey.freetown.com or chase-online-banking-
survey.freeweb.net or even 1.2.3.4/online.chase.com (or whatever their 
online banking sub-domain is)?

True, some of those (well, the IP-only one) have lost favour because of 
spam filtering and "security" features in MUAs.

The stats are reported as rates, not raw numbers (well, the raw numbers 
were in the APWG presentation I saw -- I've not seen the actual report 
and am composing this offline so can't check) it's not about sheer 
popularity (though being smaller _may_ mean .info has more (clueful) 
response resources percomplaint to expend...



Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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