[At-Large] Bad domains McAfee study

[Brendler, Beau]

Thanks, Jaqueline, that's interesting. I'd also be really interested to
hear Afilias' response to this characterization of .info.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacqueline A. Morris [mailto:jam at jacquelinemorris.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 1:33 PM
To: Brendler, Beau
Cc: At-Large Worldwide
Subject: Re: [At-Large] Bad domains McAfee study

Hi Beau
There's been some discussion on the cc lists about this as you can
imagine.
Here's the .hk response to the media:

We are very surprised to learn about the research findings from McAfee. 
In fact, in a meeting organized by Anti-Phishing Working Group last week
in Tokyo Japan, Hong Kong Domain Name Registration (HKDNR) was invited
to present its best practice in combating suspicious websites. We are
trying to get in touch with the research author to gain more insights
into this research and the findings. The research report shows the
figures and analysis of the whole of last year. In particular, the
report claimed that 9.9 million websites have been tested. It is
suspected that most of the malicious sites were tested several months
ago and no long exist.

HKDNR is committed to providing a safe Internet environment for the
community and has put in place various measures against suspicious
websites. We have been working closely with Office of the
Telecommunications Authority (OFTA), Hong Kong Police and Hong Kong
Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT) to monitor
and control the situation. In August last year, in conjunction with the
list of suspicious domains provided by OFTA, we suspended over 10,000
domains in regard. Following that initiatives, the situation with '.hk' 
related suspicious websites has been greatly improved.

We actively review our systems and domain name registration procedures
and policies. Particularly, we have more stringent documentary
requirements to combat suspicious websites registered overseas in order
to catch up with the fast-changing Internet world. We also want to call
for the general community to be aware of the issue and report to related
authorities whenever they have queries accessing a web site.


Brendler, Beau wrote:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24966835?GT1=43001
>
> "McAfee found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are ".hk" 
> (Hong Kong), ".cn" (China) and ".info" (information)."
>
> Apologies if you've seen this already.
>
> BB
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