[At-Large] R: registration fantasies

Peter Thomassen pt at dothiv.org
Mon Jan 21 23:12:28 UTC 2013


.eu had serious problems with lots of domain names being registered for 
dubious purposes in the past.
http://www.domainesinfo.fr/english/093/eurid-blocks-10-000-eu-names.php
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2006/08/71555

So, sounds like the share of dubious domain names is quite high under 
.eu. In 2007, some analysis was done on this, and it turned out that 16% 
of the .eu domain names really were used to make content available (not 
only ads). This is pretty much 1:5.

Source (German):
http://www.domain-recht.de/newsletter-archiv/newsletter-archiv-2007/ausgabe-374-august-2007-newsletter-domain-recht-11147.html

Best,
Peter

On 01/21/2013 05:25 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
>> Are you sure that the ratio is 1:100 or even 1:1000?
>
> It's something like that.  Spammers and phishers register vast numbers of
> domains, and as far as I can tell, nobody else does since domain tasting
> went away.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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