Riskiest Web Domains To Visit 106
wiredmikey writes "According to a report released today, .COM is the riskiest top-level domain, the riskiest country domain is Vietnam (.VN). Japan's .JP ranks as the safest country domain for the second year in a row and TRAVEL as the safest overall domain. It's interesting to note that .JP (currently $89.99 at GoDaddy) and .TRAVEL ($89.99 at Moniker) domains are also some of the most expensive domains. Are cybercriminals getting cheap with other people's credit cards? Or do the higher price make it more risky?"
Measurements? (Score:3, Interesting)
How do you measure risk?
If a domain is 100% infected with software that cleans up your inbox for you more "risky" than one 50% infected with software that goes and registers you as a sex offender, steals your credit card numbers and posts your porn habits on the web?
Even more safe (Score:5, Interesting)
My country domain (Bulgaria - bg) costs 130$ and only one company can sell is - register.bg. For many years we all have complained about this monopoly, there was many petitions and stuff (we won in some way - now there`re two resellers working for register.bg) but this way has some advantages for example:
1. No one could register government like domains - president.bg and so on .bg domain, if someone try to use it for illegal purpuses register.bg will wipe the domain and file official complain to the police. .bg, they get to choose from yourname.[a-z].bg and you cannot register viagra.a.bg it got to be your real name(you can if your name is Viagra :D )
2. If you want to register company name. google.bg for example, you have to provide official registration papers for the company
3. There isn`t even one single spam or other related issue with
4. Individuals cannot register
It is in some way very restrictive and the bureaucracy is a big pain, but the country domain name is important and if someone is misusing it everyone blame the country.
Surely (Score:3, Interesting)
I would of thought .gov would be the safest domain.