.eu had serious problems with lots of domain names being registered for dubious purposes in the past. http://www.domainesinfo.fr/english/093/eurid-blocks-10-000-eu-names.php http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2006/08/71555 So, sounds like the share of dubious domain names is quite high under .eu. In 2007, some analysis was done on this, and it turned out that 16% of the .eu domain names really were used to make content available (not only ads). This is pretty much 1:5. Source (German): http://www.domain-recht.de/newsletter-archiv/newsletter-archiv-2007/ausgabe-... Best, Peter On 01/21/2013 05:25 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
Are you sure that the ratio is 1:100 or even 1:1000?
It's something like that. Spammers and phishers register vast numbers of domains, and as far as I can tell, nobody else does since domain tasting went away.
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