Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

Such TLDs have always been blocked here. My personal list of blocked TLDs currently contains 161 entries ...and counting.

 

Why?

 

In order to block fishy/phishy websites.

 

Oh, my bad. I didn't realise that .com and .net URL's were 100% safe.

 

Same here, I actually have allowed only about 10. It blocks majority of malware at no cost or performance impact, while benefitting the privacy. I replaced AV with DNS, it is much more effective and virtually impossible to bypass.

 

I have ALL TLD's blocked in NextDNS other than maybe 6 or 7.

 

You can't have both.

 

What do you mean?

 

I have ALL TLD's blocked - "ALL"
other than maybe 6 or 7 - except for the TLD's that I don't.

6 or 7 is still a very large net.

I guess I'm just trying to say it's not the TLD that's the danger.