[geeks] .hk, .cn, .info considered harmful

[Phil Stracchino]

der Mouse wrote:
>> Well, in some cases (.cm, .ws being particularly good examples),
>> geographic location is comparatively irrelevant
> 
> True.
> 
>> compared to who controls the TLD the machine is registered under.
> 
> Machines aren't under TLDs; names are.  Machines<->names is even
> farther from a bijection than addresses<->names is.  (At work, for
> example, we have a couple of machines which have multiple hundreds of
> addresses each, doing webservice for even more domains than that, the
> domains scattered across at least three or four TLDs.)

True.  I oversimplified.

Nevertheless, the intended point stands.  A site running on a domain
registered under a TLD operated by spammers or domain squatters is
relatively unlikely to be innocent, just as unexpected email from
Nigeria is relatively unlikely to be legitimate.


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