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Riskiest Web Domains To Visit
wiredmikey writes "According to a report released today, .COM is the riskiest top-level domain, the riskiest country domain is Vietnam (.VN). Japan's .JP ranks as the safest country domain for the second year in a row and TRAVEL as the safest overall domain. It's interesting to note that .JP (currently $89.99 at GoDaddy) and .TRAVEL ($89.99 at Moniker) domains are also some of the most expensive domains. Are cybercriminals getting cheap with other people's credit cards? Or do the higher price make it more risky?"
We could call it .MALWARE or .INFECTED or .BADSTUFFINSTALLEDONYOURCOMPUTER. All the bad stuff would be relegated to this new domain.
Please note that my idea is no less insightful than the referenced article which is very insightful.
Computers can be repaired, what has been seen cannot be unseen.
Are you kidding? Visit irs.gov and a third of your income vanishs.
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
'This is quite possibly the most pointless report ever compiled.'
It doesn't even warn about the most dangerous TLD of all, ".pl", which is really just a trick to get the victim to execute a Perl script! URLs with this suffix usually map to a site with unintelligible placeholder text (looks like rot13 or something, e.g.: http://www.linux.pl/ ) but by the time you see this the script has already been run and the damage done!