Antivirus software vendor McAfee published a report today found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are “.hk” (Hong Kong), “.cn” (China) and “.info
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”.
A little more than 5 percent of the sites under the “.com” domain were identified as dangerous. Dangerous is defined as having domains and sites used for spam, malicious code and other cybercrimes.
According to McAfee other risky domains include “.ro” (Romania), with 6.8 percent, and “.ru” (Russia), with 6 percent of sites flagged as dangerous.
The McAfee report is based on results from 9.9 million Web sites that were tested in 265 domains for serving malicious code, excessive pop-up ads or forms to fill out that actually are tools for harvesting e-mail addresses for sending spam.
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Ask.com to become a Women Q & A SiteFrom: thedomains.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 18:57:46
Ask.com has thrown in the towel in chasing internet search leader Google and instead will focus on a narrower market consisting of married women looking for help managing their lives.
Ask.com will lay off about 40 employees, or 8 percent of its work force.
According to it’s press release, Ask.com will return to its roots by concentrating on finding answers to basic questions of especial concern to women, recipes, hobbies, children’s homework, entertainment and health.
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more Enom takes away “Cuba” domain names: What it Means to You in light of the Snowe BillFrom: thedomains.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 11:28:52
In an article published today in the New York Times, it was reviled that Enom.com shut down around 80 domains owned by a non-US citizen and resident, Steve Marshall.
It is important to note that, Mr. Marshall is a British national, lives in Spain where he operates a travel agency selling trips to Europeans who want to travel to Cuba and his servers are located in the Bahamas.
The only tie he had to the U.S. is that his domains were registered at a U.S. based registrar, Enom.com
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more Google get 66% of all U.S. Internet SearchesFrom: thedomains.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 11:28:47
In a report released today by Hitwise, Google received 66% of all U.S. Internet searches during the four weeks ended Feb. 23.
In the year-ago period, Google received 64% of all U.S. Internet searches.
Yahoo received 21% of U.S. Internet searches, Microsoft’s MSN Search received 7% and Ask.com received 4% of searches during the period.
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