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Web site domain name registrars are increasingly finding themselves at the forefront of the never-ending slog against online con artists and phishers. But there is little consensus on how far registrars should go to police their pool of names for fraudulent activity, and the performance of registrars in decommissioning domain names connected to fraud scams is all over the map.
Such was one of the many findings in a "brandjacking" report released last month by brand security firm MarkMonitor. November's report, which detailed online fraud trends for Q3 of 2007, was the first to include a list of the top 10 best and worst lists of registrar performance in revoking domain names connected to phishing scams.
Domain name registrars can play a crucial role in getting phishing sites shut down, as most phishing sites use some kind of Web site name in their scam. According to the latest stats from the Anti-Phishing Working Group, 84 percent of scam sites spotted in August used a registered Web site name (the other 16 percent of phishing sites were advertised in spam as numeric Internet addresses - http://123.143.13.256, for example).
Most readers are unlikely to recognize any of the registrars in the list of the registrars that lead the industry in fighting phishing. But among the bottom performers, according to MarkMonitor, is Register.com, which took an average of 313 hours - or more than 13 days - to revoke Web site names that were used in phishing scams in the third quarter of 2007.
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By Brain Krebs
December 11, 2007
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