AMSTERDAM, Sept. 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Global Anti Scam Alliance and Scamadviser analyzed 12.3 million domain names and discovered that some Internet Service Providers and countries seem to support scammers much more than others.
Of the domains analyzed, the percentage of websites having a low Trust Score (below 20 on a scale from 1 to 100) has increased from last year’s 3% to this year’s 8.3%. This means you are almost three times more likely to come across an online scam.
Bad Registrars
Every website ever created has a domain name, and these domain names can only be acquired through domain registrars.
GoDaddy is the world’s largest domain registrar and increased its share of hosting dubious domains from 3% last year to this year’s 7.5%. This, however, is still slightly less than the overall average.
What’s alarming is the high percentage rate of low-score domains registered on Alibaba. Alibaba has a huge 63.8% of domains with low scores and is the highest among the top registrars. Likewise, American-based companies like NameSilo (28.2%) and NameCheap (14.8%) also do not score well.
Bad Hosting Companies
To enable businesses to make their websites accessible to the internet, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) is needed. This year’s largest “hosting” company is CloudFlare with over 2.9 million websites, but 7.7% of those have a low Trust Score.
Among the biggest hosters, Namecheap has the most substandard performance. Of its 340,095…
