Dealing with the Domain Name Abuse: Issues and Approaches
Xuebiao Yuchi, Zhiwei Yan, Kejun Dong, Hongtao Li, Guanggang Geng, Sachin S. Shetty · 2021
To facilitate their worldwide access, online resources such as websites, mobile apps as well as email addresses would generally utilize domain names to label their logical locations on the Internet. Meanwhile, people who want to visit somewhere over the Internet would also tend to resort to a specific domain name first. Therefore, domain names are virtually playing an essential role during the interacting procedure between humans and online resources. However, domain names could sometimes be exploited maliciously and involved into some unexpected scenarios such as phishing, spamming, and harmful content distributing. We refer to these kinds of exploitation here as domain name abuse. Due to the explosive growth over the past years, domain name abuse has been drawing plenty of attentions both from academic and industrial areas. However, we note that there still exist a range of fundamental yet vital issues that have not been well addressed so far. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive reexamination towards some of these major issues as well as relevant approaches regarding domain name abuse handling, and try further to set forth some of our own responses and corresponding updates towards them. We believe that these issues and relevant approaches could lead to extensive impact towards further progress in this area, and our work would help the community to deal with domain name abuse in a more accountable and practical manner.