Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie
Nederland or SIDN, the Registry operator of the country code Top
Level Domain (ccTLD) .NL (the Netherlands) appears to be increasing
its efforts in its fight against cybercrime.
A recent publication by SIDN indicates that using self-developed
tools, in 2019 SIDN was able to take down some 4,340 fake shopping
websites. SIDN's tools continuously scan websites hosted
at .NL domain names for signs that would indicate fraudulent
activity. According to SIDN, its tools are self-teaching,
therefore, as more and more data is gathered, the profiling
characteristics used by to identify suspect sites are constantly
refined – the toolset effectively teaches itself how to
recognise fake sites.
