Criminal .uk suspensions down this year
Nominet suspended fewer .uk domain names due to reports of criminality in the last 12 months that in did in the prior period.
The registry said last week that is suspended 28,937 domains in the year to the end of October, down from 32,813 in the 2018 period.
That’s 0.22% of all .uk names, Nominet said.
As usual, complaints about intellectual property infringement — filed by copyright owners to the IP cops and handed to Nominet — account for the vast majority of takedowns, some 28,606 in the period.
The rest were suspended due to complaints about fraud, trading standards, financial conduct and healthcare products.
Only 16 requests were denied by Nominet, down from 114 in the previous year, and only five false-positive suspensions were reversed.
The controversial ban on “rape” domains resulted in 1,600 new regs getting automatically flagged, but zero getting suspended.
There were no requests from the Internet Watch Foundation to take down child sexual abuse material.
Nominet’s newish automated anti-phishing system, which uses pattern recognition to flag potential phishing domains at point of registration, saw 2,668 domains suspended before going live, of which 274 were released after the registrant passed due diligence checks.
If you find this post or this blog useful or interestjng, please support Domain Incite, the independent source of news, analysis and opinion for the domain name industry and ICANN community.
Recent Comments