COVID-19域名的起源与意义
A First Look at COVID-19 Domain Names: Origin and Implications
摘要：
这项工作首先研究了与COVID-19（简称Cov 19）相关的域名，使用了一个大规模的注册互联网域名数据库，该数据库包含2.6亿个不同的域名，注册了1.6K个不同的顶级域名。我们提取了2019年12月底至2020年9月底期间注册的167 K Cov 19病毒。我们试图通过我们的测量研究回答以下研究问题：RQ 1：Cov 19冠状病毒登记数量与COVID-19疫情相关吗？RQ 2：人们注册Cov 19的目的是什么？我们的主要调查结果如下：（1）与2020年4月左右的全球COVID-19疫情相似，Cov 19冠状病毒病的注册数量也经历了急剧增长，有趣的是，这比COVID-19疫情提前了约一个月，（2）70%的活跃Cov 19冠状病毒病网站的可见内容提供了有用的信息，如健康，工具，或与COVID-19相关的产品销售;及（3）不可忽略的已注册COv 19病毒被用于恶意目的。这些发现意味着区分为合法目的注册的域名与其他域名变得更具挑战性，并且密切关注Cov 19未来将如何使用/滥用至关重要。
英文摘要：
This work takes a first look at domain names related to COVID-19 (Cov19doms in short), using a large-scale registered Internet domain name database, which accounts for 260M of distinct domain names registered for 1.6K of distinct top-level domains. We extracted 167K of Cov19doms that have been registered between the end of December 2019 and the end of September 2020. We attempt to answer the following research questions through our measurement study: RQ1: Is the number of Cov19doms registrations correlated with the COVID-19 outbreaks?, RQ2: For what purpose do people register Cov19doms? Our chief findings are as follows: (1) Similar to the global COVID-19 pandemic observed around April 2020, the number of Cov19doms registrations also experienced the drastic growth, which, interestingly, pre-ceded the COVID-19 pandemic by about a month, (2) 70 % of active Cov19doms websites with visible content provided useful information such as health, tools, or product sales related to COVID-19, and (3) non-negligible number of registered Cov19doms was used for malicious purposes. These findings imply that it has become more challenging to distinguish domain names registered for legitimate purposes from others and that it is crucial to pay close attention to how Cov19doms will be used/misused in the future.
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