2018/05/29 by Quirin Scheitle, Oliver Hohlfeld, Julien Gamba +5 · 1 voice · 3 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Spam and Phishing Detection #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #Web Data Mining and Analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/3278532.3278574
A broad range of research areas including Internet measurement, privacy, and network security rely on lists of target domains to be analysed; researchers make use of target lists for reasons of necessity or efficiency. The popular Alexa list of one million domains is a widely used example. Despite their prevalence in research papers, the soundness of top lists has seldom been questioned by the community: little is known about the lists' creation, representativity, potential biases, stability, or overlap between lists.