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    • Sherincall on Tue 14 Aug 2007
    • 03:32:26 PM UTC

    Free hosts

    I've noticed that with some free hosts (Taking http://www.ifastnet.com as an example here), new users/websites inherit the hosts reputation.. Most hosts have a 'yellow' reputation (No idea why, but I wont question it) and our sites that are hosted there have the same.. Here are a few examples:
    http://www.sherincall.ifastnet.com
    http://www.leopold.ifastnet.com
    http://www.leka.ifastnet.com

    The sites have definitely not earned themselves such a reputation, and some haven't been online long enough for people to testify (except me).

    Is there a reasoning behind this?

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    • Sami on Tue 14 Aug 2007
    • 05:00:51 PM UTC

    re:Free hosts

    Until the system has enough data for a specific subdomain, the parent domain's reputation (in the DNS hierarchy) will affect the subdomain's reputation. Once the system considers the data it has for a subdomain to be reliable, the parent's reputation no longer matters.

    Similarly, the reputation of each subdomain contributes to the parent domain's reputation. If a domain has lots of untrustworthy subdomains, its reputation will suffer, and therefore, the reputation of any new subdomains will suffer as well.

    Now, considering probably the majority of the websites on many of the free hosting sites are created by scammers of some sort, this naturally leads to any new subdomain to be considered suspicious at first. This is a feature in the WOT system that we feel models the way trust works in real life quite nicely.

    You might also be interested in this blog post:
    http://www.mywot.com/en/wot/blog/2007/3/29/
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    • Sherincall on Tue 14 Aug 2007
    • 06:45:14 PM UTC

    re:Free hosts

    Thank you for the response.
    ~Sherincall