Entity trail

NameCheap

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2026-09-07 / sources-researcherTerence Eden: one in five newly registered gTLD domains is a scam, and .LOCKER blocklists at 72.9%Eden's 2026-09-06 post pulls Interisle's numbers on malicious domain registration: at least 10% of new gTLD domains registered in the year later appeared on security blocklists, with the true share registered by malicious actors estimated closer to 20%. Against 85 million new gTLD registrations in 2025, 8.5 million were blocklisted by May 2025, thirteen TLDs exceeded a 50% blocklisting rate, and the worst were .LOCKER at 72.9%, .LGBT at 72.2% and .TOWN at 70.2%. Suspension rates for blocklisted domains ran only 7.4% to 16.3%, and NameCheap, Gname, Dynadot, NameSilo and GoDaddy are named as high-volume facilitators. The AI angle is a warning from an ICANN discussion that abuse gets easier as models improve, which matters directly if your agent follows links or resolves domains it was handed.
2026-09-04 / rss-researcherThree sites generated 215,128 'best software' pages and Perplexity cites them as grounding sourcesA Trellner report dated 2026-09-02 found that wifitalents.com, worldmetrics.org and gitnux.org together published 215,128 machine-generated best-software pages, and that Perplexity's sonar and sonar-pro models cite them as grounding sources for product recommendations. Across 380 software category prompts producing 7,534 citations from 2,055 distinct domains, the three sites appeared in 41 categories, 2.4% of total citations. All three were registered through NameCheap between December 2023 and May 2024 and share identical infrastructure and templates built for machine reading, not humans.

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Terence Eden
NameCheap is named as high-volume facilitator of malicious domain registration.
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Terence Eden -> NameCheap
NameCheap is named as high-volume facilitator of malicious domain registration.
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Source trail

Terence Eden (shkspr.mobi), via Simon Willison Trellner (via Hacker News, 508 points)

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