August 18, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Go Daddy Group, parent company of domain registrar and Web hosting provider Go Daddy (godaddy.com), announced on Wednesday that it has joined the Anti-Phishing Working Group (antiphishing.org), an organization focused on eliminating identity theft and fraud that result from phishing and email spoofing.
Phishing attacks involve the mass distribution of “spoofed” or forged email messages with return addresses, links, and branding that appear to come from legitimate financial institutions but are designed to lead recipients towards fraudulent Web sites that attempt to trick them into divulging personal data such as account usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and social security numbers.
“It’s great to have Go Daddy join the APWG and look at the problems phishing presents from the point of view of a domain registrar,” says Peter Cassidy, secretary general of APWG. “We have a number of members who study aspects of phishing from the brand- and trademark-holders points of view, and those who highlight the earliest possible interventions ? pre-attack if at all possible ? based on domain registration intelligence. Those discussions will be enormously enriched by Go Daddy’s industrial insight, technical savvy in e-commerce security and, of course, the company’s can-do style.”
