The purpose of DNS is to spread scams

6th September 2026 - Link Blog 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