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ICANN Denies Allegation That New gTLD Have Widespread Phishing & Malware Sites

December 15, 2014 by Michael Berkens

According to  csoonline.com citing Amy Mushahwar, counsel and Chief Information Security Officer at Washington, D.C. law firm ZwillGen PLLC, says:

“New domains (new gTLD’s) are being registered as phishing sites and for drive-by downloads of malware.”

“Nefarious uses have been very widespread. It’s incumbent upon ICANN to clean up the house for the domains that it currently has before it floods the market with new domains.”

She goes on to say “ICANN hasn’t done enough and should stop issuing new top-level domain names until it thoroughly reviews its security policies.”

“The parade of horrors that we had envisioned are now starting to come to fruition,” she said. “Instead of allowing ICANN to continue to allow these registrations through, it is time for us to be reflective, especially given the security concerns we are having currently.”

For its part ICANN says “to date, ICANN has not seen any indication or evidence that new gTLDs have played a role in any data breaches anywhere, but we would be happy to review any evidence indicating so,” said John Crain, ICANN’s Chief Security, Stability and Resiliency Officer.”

“ICANN has always prioritized the security, stability and resiliency of the Domain Name System,” he said. “The new gTLD program was accompanied by a wide range of new and innovative safeguards, such a comprehensive plan to mitigate the effects of any potential name collisions.”

According to ntldstats.com, only 4,309 or 0.12 “percent of all domains of the over 3.5 new gTLD are listed as engaged in “Fraud”.

However of that number, over 50% of all of these domains are in one extension, .Link and over 20% of that number are in .Red.

We discussed earlier today one real problem with new gTLD’s is Cybersquatting based on the number of UDRP/URS’s filed on the new G’s compared to UDRP’s filed on all other extensions.

Filed Under: New gTLD's

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. TomScopazzi says

    December 17, 2014 at 3:32 pm

    I have to agree with John Crain and this isn’t the first time Amy Mushawar has twisted the facts to drive her own agenda. While it is true that there is abuse in the new TLDs, it is still at lower levels than in the legacy TLDs. My firm (Architelos) will be publishing a year-end summary of abuse data shortly and I’m happy to share that here on TheDomains with Mike’s permission, or can send directly to whoever is interested.

  2. Michael Berkens says

    December 17, 2014 at 7:20 pm

    Thanks Tom would love to see it when it comes out


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