Criminals create websites that offer to ship dogs after a would-be owner pays fees, but it’s a scam and the dog never is delivered. Online pet adoption scams are on the rise.

It’s not the first time Namecheap has been called out for not making Internet safety a priority. In its lawsuit, Facebook cited 45 Namecheap domains, such as ‘’, that appear to be associated with the social media company but, Facebook says, can be used by bad actors to “ trick people into believing they are legitimate and are often used for phishing, fraud and scams.”

According to cyber monitoring firm SpamHaus, 25 percent of so-called botnet domain names were registered through Namecheap-making it the third straight year it held the title as the company with the most abused domains. Namecheap is known for its refusal, short of a court order, to crack down on bad actors who register domains used to spread malware, steal personal information, send spam and conduct cyberattacks. It took me a moment to realize these are linked. The second was a plea by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to join in its crusade to stop the sale of the. The first was about Facebook suing domain registrar Namecheap for allowing domains that impersonate the social media company and can be used for scams. This past week I had two items pop up on my alerts.

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