Forwarding Criminals, a registrar/reseller KYC nightmare

Posted on 24 July 2024

What is going on?

Since 2020, criminal groups from Vietnam have re-registered domain names and set up forwarding services for such domains to obtain social media credentials and more.

What is the size?

Our conservative estimate is that these criminals re-register around 50.000 domain names each week since 2020. 

Why is it a problem?

They mostly use stolen credit cards to pay for these domain names, but we have witnessed other forms of payment fraud. 

What is the impact on a reseller or registrar?

We have seen registrars and resellers incur massive financial losses.
Sometimes, we see resellers or registars …

ScamAdviser helps us fight malicious fake web shops

Posted on 4 October 2022

Recently we added the ScamAdviser feed to our DNS Abuse Monitoring system. Based on the input and experience from our customers, I thought it would be helpful to cover a few items.
ScamAdviser is a reputation-based feed that differs from the Google Safety Browsing feed. If Google marks a domain name as malicious, it is no longer accessible as many browsers will now warn internet users not to visit the website.

Scamadvisor

ScamAdviser will inform you if the reputation of the domain name is poor. Of course, a lousy score depends on many factors, and ScamAdviser uses plenty. But a poor …

Security Threat Monitoring Beta

Posted on 2 November 2020

In this article/faq, I will explain the security threat dashboarding/monitoring. 

What is it?

In the first beta phase, we will make the threat intelligence we download from Pulsedive available to our customers in the domain manager. 

If you are a customer of Realtime Register you can join the beta program. 

Please contact our support team for information.

As a customer, you will be able to see the active security threats. 

Security threats could be phishing domain names or malware domain names. 

The Abuse Dashboarding provides you with information that usually does not get reported to Registrars. 

As a result, you …

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