Saw these info over a few sites:
Of all “.hk” sites McAfee tested, it flagged 19.2 percent as dangerous or potentially dangerous to visitors; it flagged 11.8 percent of “.cn” sites and 11.7 percent of “.info” sites that way.
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The servers for “.hk” and “.cn” Web sites don’t have to be in China; Web site operators can register sites from anywhere to target different geographies.
I wonder where on earth did they get these information from?
As of .hk, which is registered and controled by HKDNR, a semi-government base company.
All .hk domain register are required to provide HK ID card copy (every HK residence has one); HKDNR do not work 24 hours, only 9 to 5 and DO NOT issue .hk domain without the ID Card copy, I consider these steps as a very tough regulation (or annoying…) for domain register/owner, compare to a .com which anyone can register one anywhere, anytime.
About the statement of “The servers for “.hk” and “.cn” Web sites don’t have to be in China”, thats sounds very strange to me too, neither do .com register are limited to US base server! everyone knows there are no limit to what the domain suffix towards where the site is hosted.
Honest as my personal experience, 90% spams and phishing email/site I have seen are .com base.
About their statement of: 19.2 percent as dangerous or potentially dangerous to visitors, I felt very fishy towards it, I think they really should look into their data which I think they must have make some mistake.
Links
– Yahoo news – New report identifies dangerous Web domains.
– HKDNR – Hong Kong Domain Name Register
