Domains by the Plenty	Posted by Sean @ 15:17 GMT

Not very much has changed since March '06 regarding phishy websites.

At that time, we performed some domain searches using some bank names.
We were recently asked about it, so we decided to repeat the experiment.

We did a simple search across com/net/org/us/biz/info top-level domains:

March 2006

Keyword	Number of Domains
citibank*	497
bankofamerica*	407
lloyds*	994
bnpparibas*	41
egold*	691
hsbc*	1258
chase*	6470
paypal*	1634
ebay*	8057

And today?

August 2007

Keyword	Number of Domains
citibank*	810
bankofamerica*	656
lloyds*	1421
bnpparibas*	62
egold*	1304
hsbc*	1574
chase*	10153
paypal*	1653
ebay*	9120

Not all of these sites are bad, but there are definitely some needles in those haystacks.