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McAfee: .HK, .CN and .INFO domains most dangerous

McAfee reveals that the most dangerous websites are those hosted on “.hk” (Hong Kong), “.cn” (China) and “.info” (information) domains. Dangerous — meaning, malicious malware sites or just plain old spammy 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. That’s 1 in every 5 .HK domains!

Other risky domains include “.ro” (Romania), with 6.8 percent, and “.ru” (Russia), with 6 percent of sites flagged as dangerous.

A little more than 5 percent of the sites under the “.com” domain — the world’s most popular — were identified as dangerous. dotPH sites are nowhere on the list, which is good right?

{source: Associated Press}

Abe Olandres
Abe Olandres
Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.
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  2. JC John SESE Cuneta says:

    Lol @SELaplana

    I guess being expensive keeps the domain from being use for spamming. Haha.

  3. SELaplana says:

    so, next time, i will use the .ph for spamming …. LOL

  4. Kiven says:

    .ph domains pWns spammers.

  5. Andre says:

    No spammers can afford .ph

  6. JC John SESE Cuneta says:

    It’s a firewall to protect their citizens from us, not to protect us from them. Haha joke only :p

    Well, that’s the very reason why I stopped using my .info domains and switched to other TLDs or ccTLDs (not .ph tho, too expensive, not even in my list of ccTLDs to consider and recommend).

  7. P365D says:

    So much for China’s Great Firewall lol :D

  8. Erin says:

    .ph are not in the list because of the exorbitant prices being charged for it. and filipinos have a reputation of wanting more for less so they opt for the more non-localized or cheap domains (like .info and .tk).

    ciao!

  9. Patrick says:

    @Kenneth, correct. Maybe because you can register a .info domain very cheap. ooopss..i got a .info domain. hehe.

  10. Kenneth says:

    .INFO domain extensions were considered as a spammers domain if I’m not mistaken?

    Also, most ccTLD’s like the China one’s are harmful due to their undescribed and unclear content IMO.

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