Understanding domain registration abuses

Understanding Domain Registration Abuses

The ability to monetize domain names through resale or serving ad content has contributed to the rise of questionable practices in acquiring them, including domain-name speculation, tasting, and front running. In this paper, we perform one of the first comprehensive studies of these domain registration practices. In order to characterize the prevalence of domain-name speculation, we derive rule...

Consolidated Review of Understanding the Domain Registration Behavior of Spammers

1. Strengths The paper systematically studies the domain registration lifecycle of spam domains and attempts to identify distinguishing features that can be used to classify them as malicious at registration time itself. While the results are not conclusive the paper does a great job explaining the methods used and the behaviors observed during the registration process. They categorize domains ...

Understanding Image Registration

Vision researchers have created an incredible range of algorithms and systems to detect, track, recognize, and contextualize objects in a scene, using a myriad of internal models to represent their problem and solution. However in order to effectively make use of these algorithms sophisticated expert knowledge is required to understand and properly utilize the internal models used. Researchers ...

Editorial Abuses

Reining in Online Abuses

593 Online platforms today are being used in deplorably diverse ways: recruiting and radicalizing terrorists; exploiting children; buying and selling illegal weapons and underage prostitutes; bullying, stalking, and trolling on social media; distributing revenge porn; stealing personal and financial data; propagating fake and hateful news; and more. Technology companies have been and continue t...