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Some Australian researchers want to see .CC taken away from Verisign

June 7, 2021 by Raymond Hackney

.CC extension

Like .com, .net and .tv, Verisign is the registry provider for .cc, the country code for Cocos (Keeling) Islands. This is an Australian territory.

So TheGuardian published an article today from Josh Taylor with the headline, “Australia urged to take control of Cocos .cc internet domain to foil scammers and child abuse sites”.

Interestingly one of the researchers said, “It’s also very short and visually similar so the dot com,” he said. “So it’s always been good for spoofing somebody else’s website.”

Apparently the root of the concern is that according to the Australian National University researchers, .cc is very problematic when it comes to sites hosting child abuse type content.

Taylor makes note that The Internet Watch Foundation ranked .cc in the top 10 of most-abused top-level domains in 2019 for hosting child sexual abuse material but it dropped out of the top 10 in 2020.

It seems like the researchers want the Australian government to approach Verisign and basically get them to hand over or sell the .cc extension.

It will be interesting to see if anyone from the Australian government does takes any sort of steps along those lines. A spokesperson for Verisign said they remove domain names used for illegal purposes when notified.

Filed Under: .cc, Domain Industry, VeriSign

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

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Comments

  1. Snoopy says

    June 7, 2021 at 11:35 pm

    Such nonsense, hard to imagine AUDA running anything more, they are completely incompetent as is.

  2. Ethan says

    June 8, 2021 at 12:35 am

    I cannot agree with the researcher who said that .cc is visually similar to .com. To me, the two TLDs clearly look different. I have invested in one .cc domain, by the way.


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