.men rule badness index

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In 2018, Spamhaus rated .men as the worst top-level domain in terms of spam and scamming. .men comes top with 60.6% of its 73,000 domains identified as "bad", resulting in a badness index of 6.48. The company that runs .men, GRS Domains also runs the third worst registry – .loan – with 59 percent bad domains and a 6.22 index.

In 2018, Spamhaus rated .men as the worst top-level domain in terms of spam and scamming. .men comes top with 60.6% of its 73,000 domains identified as “bad”, resulting in a badness index of 6.48. The company that runs .men, GRS Domains also runs the third worst registry – .loan – with 59 percent bad domains and a 6.22 index.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain#Brand_gTLD

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#notall.men

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i swear to god if that resolves

clicks

phew

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onlyshort.men?

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I still don’t get why TLDs are owned by arbitrary digital barons

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Icann needed wanted more money.

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Because namespace is basically land from which economic rent is extracted. The internet reflects the physical systems on which it’s built.

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Is it Better than .bear?

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There are too many top-level domains these days. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot.

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.zip is the first to go.

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crackpot

crazy? i was crazy once.

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They used to do penetration testing on hy.men, but the results were unreliable

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#notall.men

Edit: 😭 applebusch is me but faster

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“Welcome to Spam Men."
“We’re the men."
“And here’s the spam."
🎵 Spam men 🎵
🎵 Spam men 🎵
🎵 Spam spam spam men men men 🎵

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They really should do a map about international spamming

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So .men is admined by Genital Reassignment Surgery?

What an interesting timeline

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Its not top anymore, that goes to .xn–j1amh which is apparently Ukrainian.

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I originally read it as “baldness index”

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Me too today

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