If there is a domain that could be useful as a phishing site (a domain the original company allowed to expire, one that just looks right enough, etc) but is on the common blacklists, isn't that useful. If it dropped of the blacklists when registration expired then another nefarious type (or the same nefarious person if they are lucky) could re-register it and use it as a freshly useful phishing location until it once again got on the lists.
Though given how carefully people often don't check domains, or in some cases how easily they are hidden, which is why many phishing attacks work, this might not make a big difference overall.
If you buy a previous well own scam URL, cry me a river about being blacklisted. If you get the cheapest IPv4 don't come complaining that all you email gets classified as spam. _Especially_ if you claim to be an expert.
Are we talking about when it had malicious contents for a couple weeks in 2018? Come on, that's not tainted in 2024 by any reasonable metric.
> is a spelling variant of a well known large corp
It's talking about the large corp, and isn't even close to their real URL. And there's a lot of ways you could interpret "baways", including connections to the company called Baway and the unrelated stock ticker BAWAY. So I see what you're saying but I don't think it's a big deal.
> complain that a previously maliciously used DNS name is blacklisted
I don't see them complaining?
> And it is deceptive because unlike the title suggests there is no "challenge" mentioned in the article yet the wording strongly suggest some sort of rewarded hackathon.
That's the submitter's fault for using the subtitle instead of the title.
Yeah the pronouns throughout the a/b/c/d thing are confusing the heck out of me. I originally thought it was all about you (claiming expertise), then I considered perhaps me (complaining), and then perhaps the author of TFA (hosting). It could even be that the 3rd person "they" leading into a/b/c/d and the 2nd person "you" within item d are the same entity, which would be very strange grammar, but I really have no idea other than I was the only one complaining about (but also defending) filtering from what I can tell. Names, please!
