List of The Most Dangerous Web Domains
This morning computer security company McAfee’s make a list of the most dangerous Web domains. The anti-virus software developer analyzed more than 27 million country and generic Web domains for browser exploits, phishing, excessive pop-ups and malicious downloading.
The study found that Cameroon (.cm) has the riskiest Web domain, with 36.7% of its sites posing security risks. The next four most dangerous country domains are China (.cn), Samoa (.ws), the Philippines (.ph) and the former Soviet Union (.su).
The safest country domain, with only 0.1% of its sites posing security threats, belongs to Japan (.jp). It was followed on McAfee’s list by Ireland (.ie), Croatia (.hr), Luxembourg (.lu) and Vanuatu (,vu).
In 2008, Hong Kong’s domain (.hk) topped the list, but this year it came in 34th after officials there took action. Hong Kong probably increased costs, demanded information (such as proof of residency, a valid phone number and address) from users and increased the take-down speed for dangerous websites.
What is interesting in that list is No. 4 on that list was .su, the domain for the former Soviet Union. Think about that. The Soviet Union hasn’t been a country for almost 18 years! Yet, it still has its domain. Which has seen more than 80,000 registrations, according to the Russian Network Information Center.
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