China's .cn Now the Second Most Popular TLD 86
darthcamaro writes "In case you needed further proof of China's breakneck pace of growth on the web, InternetNews is reporting on data from Verisign that the .cn Top Level Domain (TLD) has now become the second biggest TLD worldwide, surpassing Germany's .de and second only to .com. The number of .cn sites grew by 76 percent in 2008, which is significantly more growth than .com and .net, which only grew by 16 percent combined. A graph in the Verisign report (PDF) shows how quickly China's internet presence has grown in the past two years."
Well... (Score:1, Insightful)
That'll be all the nice cheap phishing domains.
Re:Well... (Score:4, Insightful)
I know they could be spoofed, but I used to get scanned constantly by various IPs in China. I doubt those are any kind of friendly port scans.
One nice thing, though. I recently updated my DSL modem's firmware which gave me the option to drop ICMP requests. Now that my IP address no longer pings, the port scans from China have stopped - or at least have for now.