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\"safety\"A research collaboration between Scamadviser.com and REACT has analysed over 65 million websites. Based on its data, it identified a top eight of hosting companies and registrars who support the most unreliable websites in the world. Basically, all an online scammer needs is a domain name and a hosting provider to do its business.

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Registering a domain name always involves a registrant, registrar and registry. Registrars sell different domain names like store.com, store.nl and store.xyz to companies or private persons, the registrant. At the moment, for most domain names, no authentication is needed apart from an email address. For this, Gmail and a (fake) address are used the most.

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RegistrarCountryTotal # of IP’sUnique IP'sBad IP's% Bad IP'sAvg. Trust Rating
Chengdu west dimension digitalChina111364393784%9
West263 InternationalHong Kong30332187214871%17
Beijing Innovative Linkage TechnologyChina37302565197853%31
Guangzhou Ehost Tech.coChina1760114892152%30
Shanghai Meicheng Technology Information DevelopmentChina151167976756250%29
Xiamen Nawang TechnologyChina111993955850%25
Reg.RuRussia114055770508945%35
Bizcn.comChina33401179171372241%38
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 Top 8 Registries supporting websites with a low Trust Score

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According to the study, some companies are supporting scammers more than others. In the case of registrars, most registered scam websites come from China. The analysis shows that the Chengdu West Dimension contains up to 84% unreliable website with an average trust score rating of 9%. The biggest number of registered websites is Bizcn.com with 41% (13.722 URLs) of a total of 33.401 having a low trust score.

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Hosting Providers
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Hosting providers offer the server space and access to the internet to set-up a website. There are roughly two billion websites worldwide. The hosting providers with the worst reputation are mostly hosted in Russia, Sweden and the Netherlands. Compared to the giants they are relatively small, but 77% of the websites hosted by Dancom, for example, have a low trust score, with an average of 16%.

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Hosting ProviderCountryTotal # of IP’sUnique IP'sBad IP's% Bad IP'sAvg. Trust Rating
DancomRussia1679356129177%16
Mir TelematikiRussia89791767683276%15
Inter ConnectsSweden113951635854375%16
YISPNetherlands1520286109872%18
Jazz NetworkUnited States64531662443469%20
Marosnet TelecommunicationsRussia2164558146168%22
Marcel Edler (Optimate-Server)Germany1544683103567%21
Dediserv Dedicated ServersNetherlands1837386119565%26
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Top 8 hosting companies with a low Trust Score

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At this moment, it seems to be too easy and cheap to set-up an online scam. The challenge is that the infrastructure used by online scammers is the same used by legit retailers. Therefore the only way to combat them is with a proper due diligence process, asking for company papers and personal ID’s. The registry of a Danish .dk domain, for example, started asking for a company VAT number or tax ID in 2017. As a result, the number of .dk domains used for online scams fell from 6.73% to 1.03% in one year.

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Naturally, online identification alone is not foolproof. A second step is using scam blacklists to keep the infrastructure clean of scammy URLs. There already exist blacklists for email spammers and malware and phishing sites.

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