co.cc seems to be gone

  • November 20, 2012
Labs Note

It seems that the .co.cc (sub TLD) that used to be mass used byspammers and malware is now gone.

Their registration page is offline:

$ host co.cc
Host co.cc not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

$ host www.co.cc
Host www.co.cc not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

And we hope it stays that way.

Daniel B. Cid is Founder of Sucuri and the VP of Engineering for the GoDaddy Security Products group. He is also the founder of OSSEC and CleanBrowsing. You can find more about Daniel on his site dcid.me or on Twitter: @danielcid

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