“We have not found any legitimate content served through their shorteners.”
Since May, about 55 percent of a phishing link shortener’s new domains end in .US, with several dozen registered every day. GoDaddy runs the .US contract and checks a registrant’s American nexus with a choice of three pre-selected yes answers. NameSilo handled over 99 percent of the domains that somehow got private records the TLD’s charter forbids. NameSilo says its abuse rate is 0%. That’s easy when you never look.