Interesting story from a McAfee study. For the general Web user, this is the best quote:
"My advice about surfing behavior is that if you're really desperate for cheap Prozac and the pharmacy ends in '.cn,' don't do it. Just don't do it," [said Shane Keats, research analyst for McAfee and lead author of the report.] "Find another place to get your Prozac."
Most of the baddies are "country code" domains: Hong Kong, China, Romania and Russia -- ".hk," ".cn," ".ro" and ".ru," and one domain open to anybody, ".info." (The safest turn out to be Japan's and Australia's, respectively, ".jp" and ".au," and the government Web site top-level domain, ".gov.")
Countries treat their "country code" domains as sovereign property, making them very difficult to regulate. That's not the case with ".info," which is owned by Afilias, an international company headquartered in Ireland. True, .info was created to be an unrestricted domain, and a number of organizations, most notably New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority, use it. But if I were the MTA, I'd be a little worried about the domain's credibility.