XXXtortion? Inferring registration intent in the .XXX TLD

WWW 2014 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 901-911

  Halvorson, Tristan ^a   Levchenko, Kirill ^a   Savage, Stefan ^a   Voelker, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abuse; DNS; Internet economics; Registration intent; TLDs

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE;

ABUSE; DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM; DOMAIN REGISTRATIONS; INTERNET ECONOMICS; POLITICAL GROUPS; REGISTRATION INTENT; TLDS; WEB REQUESTS;

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY;

EID: 84906767744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2566486.2567995     Document Type: Conference Paper

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