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Porn domain not that sexy: no rush to have .xxx

While their is a huge hype surrounding .xxx domains and companies rushing to buy them to protect their brand, it seems that registration data disagree with this.  My analysis of the 50000 most popular websites in the world shows that only 24% of them actually registered their .xxx domain.

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Web Security Trends 2010

Over the last few months, with Jason and Baptiste we have gathered a lot of statistics about the web security to get a better understanding of how the situation evolves and where doing research will be the most effective. While some of these statistics have already been used in  our papers or for our web security class (CS241), many of them are still undisclosed. Since this kind of statistics seems to trigger a lot of  interest based on the feedback I received while giving a talk or a lecture , I thought they will make a great first post for my blog rebirth. Overall we gathered statistics in three different direction:  server security, browser security and web security awareness.

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