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		Symbiote 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz .ly, .by and .ru are legitimate in their own context. https://www.mos.ru (Moscow's city site), https://www.belarus.by/ (Belarus' tourism site) and https://libyaobserver.ly (Libyan newspaper) are three examples. And I'd be almost as suspicious of buy-viagra-pills.de as I would be of buy-viagra-pills.ru.

detuur 11 months ago [–]

.de domains require a German postal address, so I would actually trust them more than the .ru equivalent. Plenty of other ccTLDs have even stricter nationality requirements for registration.

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