ebsite blocked due to a suspicious top level domain .tech

[Gearhart]

company website being marked as suspicious due to .tech domain 

bitcube.tech 

 

[gonzo]

Whitelist entry added.  Please allow 15-30 minutes for changes to take effect.

[Gearhart]

Thank you

[Petez]

On 7/27/2020 at 8:49 AM, gonzo said:

Whitelist entry added.  Please allow 15-30 minutes for changes to take effect.

 .tech is STILL being blocked as suspicious. What's up with that MWB! 🙄

[Porthos]

1 hour ago, Petez said:

 .tech is STILL being blocked as suspicious. What's up with that MWB! 🙄

That TDL is basically blocked by default.

While we wait for staff. A note on Website blocked due to a suspicious top level domain (TLD)

Non-standard TLD's (tech/biz/cc/info/xyz/online and so on) are commonly used for malicious purposes.  Malwarebytes err on the side of caution to assure that we are protecting our users. If our users encounter a block, they report it , it gets tested, and if it is determined to be safe, it gets whitelisted.

Here are some of the reasons why it's safer to block by default and remove the block if found to be safe. 

https://cybersecurityventures.com/investigative-cybersecurity-the-webs-most-dangerous-top-level-domains/

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/

Typically no one has the time and resources to go out and daily scan for bad sites on the Web.

[alvarnell]

3 hours ago, Petez said:

 .tech is STILL being blocked as suspicious. What's up with that MWB! 🙄

And it's safe to assume it always will be. Individual .tech sites must each be whitelisted after being properly tested, as @Porthos outlined.

Edited November 14, 2020 by alvarnell

[Petez]

Sorry, I misread Gonzo's reply to be that .tech would be whitelisted.

And... I didn't realize the rep of that TLD (2.5% bad (score 0.15) per spamhaus) would get it listed. Ironically .com is 3.5% bad (score 0.43), but obviously you just can't block that. Thanks for the feedback.

-Pete