{
  "id": 5995063,
  "title": "The purpose of DNS is to spread scams",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/06/the-purpose-of-dns-is-to-spread-scams",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-06T14:40:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "slug": "simon-willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/6/the-purpose-of-dns-is-to-spread-scams/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The purpose of DNS is to spread scams Terence Eden shares some daunting statistics in support of his take that \"the Domain Name System's purpose seems to be a vector for criminals to run scams on people at a terrifyingly high rate\". On this Interisle report ( via Andrew Campling ), Terence says: It says 85 million new registrations of gTLDs were made in 2025. Of those 8.5 million were added to…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}