Reply to post: Re: Day Old Bread

The web's cruising at 13 million new and nefarious domain names a month

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Re: Day Old Bread

It's probably not related to what you meant, but I would suggest treating any domain as probably malicious until it's existed in DNS for a week (that data is publicly available in whois). I see so many phishing or malware setups use fresh domain names that they intend to run for a few days and cancel with their registrar. There are registrars that allow for refunds if domains are canceled in a short period, so they get their endpoints for free. I usually argue against blanket-bans of stuff, but this one is an exception as almost all legitimate sites are set up with enough forethought that they'll have a domain a week before it goes live for the public.

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