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.Asia Registry to Crack Down on Phishy Domains

Jeremy Kirk writes on InfoWorld:

The registry for the new .asia TLD (top-level domain) plans to ban domain names that are consistently used for phishing sites.

DotAsia Organization has agreed to implement a policy to ban domain names associated with phishing, said Laura Mather, of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a consortium of companies and government groups that studies phishing. She is also a senior scientist at MarkMonitor.

It's the first time that a registry has undertaken such a drastic action to stop the proliferation of fake Web sites designed to dupe people into divulging sensitive personal data.

posted by Fergie @ 10/11/2007 12:10:00 PM