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Re: .US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service


From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 15:23:50 -0700

On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 3:10 PM Allan Liska <allan () allan vin> wrote:
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.

Hi Allan,

Careful. Statistics don't mean much when separated from their context.
Spamhaus doesn't appear to have published the raw numbers for anything
except the "top ten."

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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