Evaluating the Effectiveness of Handling Abusive Domain Names by Internet Entities

A large number of domains are abused every day for cybercrime. At the same time, fight against abusive is not one person or organization but a battle that requires cooperation entire community. However, very little research has been done to quantify positive benefits this strategy dealing with domains. As result, using pornography and gambling domain names as examples, we present first empirical study evaluating usability effectiveness all Internet entities (e.g., registrars hosting providers) in DNS ecosystem receiving handling reports. First, paper thoroughly demonstrates mechanisms reports at various China. Second, select report appropriate 2433 43 service providers across six categories entities. Finally, discover methods response time used by each entity handle abuse based on changes reported Based above data, analyze evaluate Moreover, indicate scope protection disadvantages method, i.e., whether can escape handling. The aims provide more detailed overview reference security communities, providers, concerned