Bad Neighborhood Domains
Posted on March 16, 2007 by
Adie 
Domains 
10 Comments
A new story seems to have hit the mainstream media recently which talks about the recent release of McAfee Mal Web. The new program attempts to map out the most dangerous parts of the web by a couple (very limited) criteria. After fiddling with it for all of 2 minutes, I’ve decided it’s little more than another little gadget for not-so-savvy internet users and paranoid moms looking for more ways to shelter their kids. What are the most dangerous domains?
The World’s Riskiest Web Domains:
No. 1: Tokelau (.tk)
No. 2: Information (.info)
No. 3: Samoa (.ws)
No. 4: Romania (.ro)
No. 5: Commercial (.com)
No. 6: Business (.biz)
No. 7: Russia (.ru)
No. 8: Network (.net)
No. 9: Families and Individuals (.name)
No. 10: Slovakia (.sk) - Forbes
CNNMoney quoted the article but only focused in on the “large country domains”:
Everyone knows Russia isn’t exactly crime free, but here’s a tip: Even if you’re going to visit Russia online, you’d best travel with security. That’s just one tidbit from a report released today by McAfee (MFE), “Mapping the Mal Web,†which notes that “the two riskiest large country domains to visit are Romania (.ro) and Russia (.ru), while the two safest are Finland (.fi) and Ireland (.ie).†Nice to see Ireland in the headlines for being peaceful. - CNNMoney
I guess they were trying to directly relate online travel to real life travel? In any case, this list comes across to me as completely trivial. Are you going to block all .tk domains after reading this? No. Is there going to be any brand new content filtering software that takes this list seriously? No. Overall it’s just a toy.
So why did it make the news again? Who knows, but hell I’m writing about it so there has to be something appealing here!
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I’ve seen blogs block comments from .info and .biz (no legitimate business actually uses those TLDs as primary, right?)
And we should totally block those pesky .com’s, they are worse than Russia! ;)
haha
this all seems a bit offensive to me
but maybe im being sheltered from the dreaded internet crime myself
Too bad microsoft didn’t buy http://www.get.ie that would’ve been a cool domain name to have.
.ie is too safe of a domain. Gates likes to live on the edge with his dangerous .com!
Uhm… .com is #5? Seriously folks? What about .jp and all those crazy colors and characters?
And this is on CNNMoney! The MSM these days is just a mill that takes press releases and pukes them onto a page. Kinda sad.
^ sad but true
So, .info domains are second riskiest?
that’s news to me.
Sweet! Time to get ryanjparker.ie.
Ok, .com is generalized as risky, but hey, who don’t like popularity?
And then, this data is just a generalization, right? That doesn’t mean all of .com or any of listed above are risky. You put your point right here man!
By the way, I like popularity of my site as faster and as high as possible. :)