Dec 2, 2009

.cm Deemed Most Dangerous by McAfee

With Morgan Linton’s call that we need to be more active educating people about the domain industry (It’s 2009 And STILL Nobody Knows What We Do!), McAfee names .cm as being one of the most dangerous domain extensions on the internet. Their reason:

“Cameroon’s .cm domain has long been popular with domain name scammers, or typosquatters, who register sites with the intention of getting traffic from unsuspecting users who mistype ‘.com’.

These sites are either monetised with online ads or infected with malware and other potentially unwanted programs, said McAfee.”

This is pretty much the basic over generalization that we don’t need, however thankful we should be they did not use the terms “domain investors” or “domainers”.

The safest domain, according the Mcafee, was .jp for the second year in a row with .gov being the safest non-country domain. Unfortunately, .com was tagged as the second most dangerous . In total, McAfee scanned “27 million web sites and 104 top level domains (TLDs)”.

For more information on the metrics McAfee uses to rate websites, download, e-commerce vulnerabilities and more visit “How It Works” on SiteAdvisor.com

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