Bad .Men at .Work. Please Don’t .Click
Summary: Spamhaus's list of the most abused top-level domains ranks .men worst, with 55 percent of its 65,570 registered domains deemed bad, meaning tied to spam, malware, or both. The article also cites Symantec's March 2018 Top 20 Shady TLDs and reports that Namecheap, the fourth-largest registrar as of October 2017, offers the lowest prices for three of Spamhaus's ten worst TLDs and 11 of Symantec's 20, with some domains selling for under 50 cents.
Bottom line: Domains in five of Spamhaus's ten worst TLDs sell for between 48 cents and a dollar each, so the cost of standing up a spam or malware campaign on these extensions is trivial, and the article notes such domains are often reached only after a user clicks a link that looks like an ordinary .com or .org.
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