Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom
Summary: Phishing domains registered through Freenom fell from over 60% of reported phishing domains in November 2022 to under 15% in the months surrounding Meta's lawsuit against the registrar, which Meta filed in December 2022 and re-filed in March 2023. Meta's complaint alleged Freenom gave away free domains across five country-code TLDs (.cf, .ga, .gq, .ml, .tk), shielded customer identities, and kept licensing new domains to the same customers after receiving phishing notices.
What's compelling: Interisle's Dave Piscitello calls litigation a standing eight count - it temporarily disrupts a process - and notes there is no evidence the overall trend line of phishing domains will level off, with more than 2,000 accredited registrars and cheap domains available for phishers to migrate to.
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