.internal - You know what it is, don’t you? If you don’t… You’ve probably have missed this, and your system(s) are likely to be misconfigured, unless everything is using public DNS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.internal

I remember when I had to do such configs, it was hard and there was no proper solution available. Back then I ended up using .local, which just causes long extra delays and timeouts and it is wrong.

#tld #internal #dns #domainnames #sysadmin

Oh, goody. #ICANN has announced it's opening up applications for new generic top-level domains.

All the ones added since they first started doing this - i.e. when the only generic TLDs were .com, .net, and .org - are, as far as I can see, garbage and useless.

Every single email I have ever received from a domain under .biz, .online, .shop, and all the other "new" GTLDs has been either spam, scam, or phishing.

I should just block all these TLDs completely, and any other new ones this results in.

#GTLD #GenericTLD #TLD #TLDs #GTLDs #GenericTLDs #spam #scam #phish #phishing

How to Protect Against Phishy Top-level Domains, Part 2

In a previous article, we explained that risk-averse organizations routinely adopt TLD blocking as a defense against cyber-attacks.

We EMPHASIZED why this is a last resort measure and offered examples of TLDs that were persistently associated with major phishing and scam attacks in CY2025. We also describe how to make an informed TLD blocking decision.

In our earlier post, we explained how organizations or individuals could use Cisco’s OpenDNS service to adopt TLD blocking. Today, we’ll be taking a look at how NextDNS could be used to block TLDs.

https://interisle.substack.com/p/how-to-protect-against-phishy-top-b41

#phishing #cybercrime #blocklisting #tld #domainnames #dnsabuse

🗓️ Day 100
🫎 Crafted the moose-hide satchel. That +5kg bonus will be handy in the near future;
🐺 Crafted the wolfskin coat as well. Wolfies, beware!
🏤 I'm going to stay in Mountain Town a few more days and then I'll head back to Mystery Lake before moving to another region.

#thelongdark #tld