Domain Extensions Frequently Used by Scammers - Countries and Domains Extensions to Avoid

 

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Domain Extensions Frequently Used by Scammers - Countries and Domains Extensions to Avoid

Country domain extension, those letters after a dot in the domain name that tell you the country in which the website is supposed to originate can also tell you whether you should even visit the website at all.  Some of them are so prone to be used by scammers, you'd be insane to ever visit any website with that extension.

Country domain extensions very commonly used by scammers

 Into that category, we put the following, in descending order of frequency of scams.  There's really no reason to visit a website that uses these domain extensions (TLD, top level domains).

1. .VE Venezuela
2. .PW Palau
3.  .CC Cocos (Keeling) Islands
4.  .ML Mali
5. .BD Bangladesh
6. .CF Central African
7.  .KE Kenya  .
8. .TK  Tokelau
9.  .NG Nigeria
10. .GQ Equitorial Guinea
11.  .PK Pakistan
12.  .RU Russia
13. .IN India

Other TLD's frequently used by scammers

Of course, a scammer can use any comain name and extension to host a scam, spoofed website or mailware. And there are plenty using .COM.  Butthe following are very prone to be hosting scams websites:

1. .CENTER
2. .MEN
3. .WORK
4. .WANG
5. .ONLINE
6. .XYZ
7. .TECH
8. .REST
9. .FIT
10. .HOST
11. .COUNTRY
12. .DOWNLOAD
13. .US United States
14. .INFO
15. .BIZ
16. .NET