Following articles in The Washington Post accusing EstDomains of being
“a superlative scam and spam site registrar”, the company has sought to
distance themselves from the allegations with the news release below.
EstDomains declared they oppose “malware mongers in order to protect Internet users from attacks on their computers or stealing of their important data.” However the company has not addressed many of the issues raised by the Washington Post such as their links with some of the scams and companies involved.
Links to the Washington Post articles are available here.
EstDomains, Inc: Global Struggle Against Malware Distribution [news release]
EstDomains, Inc, a US-based domain name Registrar, officially declares
opposition to malware mongers in order to protect Internet users from
attacks on their computers or stealing of their important data.
EstDomains, Inc pays special attention to domain name holders' private
data protection and secure money transaction operations. It can be said
in all modesty that EstDomains, Inc has succeed in protecting its
customers from any possible occurrence of fraudulence or cracking.
However, being an eminent member of interactive community, EstDomains,
Inc management along with other giants of online industry continues its
struggle against malicious software distribution and is giving its best
to work out even more efficient solutions for detecting malware sources.
EstDomains, Inc, a US-based domain name Registrar, officially declares
opposition to malware mongers in order to protect Internet users from
attacks on their computers or stealing of their important data.
EstDomains, Inc pays special attention to domain name holders' private
data protection and secure money transaction operations. It can be said
in all modesty that EstDomains, Inc has succeed in protecting its
customers from any possible occurrence of fraudulence or cracking.
However, being an eminent member of interactive community, EstDomains,
Inc management along with other giants of online industry continues its
struggle against malicious software distribution and is giving its best
to work out even more efficient solutions for detecting malware sources.
The term "malicious software" or commonly called "malware" speaks for
itself. The software of this kind may not only interrupt work process
by displaying annoying trifles on the user's desktop but corrupt
important files and damage hard disc as well as causing considerable
losses to computer's owner. Slowing down the whole computer system or
spamming from one's email account is the smallest troubles that
cunningly written software may cause. Unfortunately, there are many
widely known precedents of unauthorized credit card usages performed
with stolen passwords and codes. The most unpleasant thing about
malware is that usually it is installed on a computer without user's
consent from a website that may seem to be utterly innocent.
The EstDomains, Inc management does not deny the fact that no one is
secured from having a customer who uses provided services for
delinquent purposes. But it must be noted that the carefully planned
infrastructure of EstDomains, Inc makes the special provision for the
cases of malware distribution that may originate from the domain name
registered under the company's name. Such domain names are suspended
immediately along with domain holder's account if there is an evidence
of malware presence on the web site. According to the most recent
statistics over five thousand domain names were detected and ruthlessly
suspended by EstDomains, Inc specialists only last week.
The company also has a reliable ally in its battle against malware in a
face of Intercage, Inc which provides company with the hosting services
of the highest quality. But the outstanding performance of hosting
services is not the sole reason why EstDomains, Inc appreciates this
partnership so greatly. Intercage, Inc generously provides EstDomains,
Inc specialists with reports regarding discovered malware vehicles. As
the main database for additional domain name management services is
located in Intercage Data Center, EstDomains, Inc has the perfect
opportunity to get notifications of the slightest mark of malware
presence in the shortest time and take measures in advance.
In addition to the constant monitoring of its infrastructure,
EstDomains, Inc has created a unique system that allows reveal direct
malware sources along with potentially dangerous web sites. Further,
the detailed reports with warnings are sent to hosting companies and
Registrars in order to notify them about the threat and to ask for the
measures to be taken. In addition to independently lead investigations,
EstDomains, Inc relies on the information available from such
influential anti-malware organizations and listings as webhelper4u.net,
malwaredomainlist.com, hosts-file.net, malwaredomains.com,
malwarebytes.org and many others.
Today, EstDomains, Inc would like to urge all Internet users to join
this world-wide campaign against malware distributions and distributors
and report every single display of corrupted codes to:
https://support.estdomains.com. It does not matter whether the domain
name for suspected web site is registered with EstDomains, Inc or with
any other Registrar. There is one common goal for everyone. Namely,
keep the Internet space clean and safe for both business and leisure.