Updates made to industry’s intelligence database of fraudsters
Travel agents will be able to report and search for bogus websites following updates to the industry’s only intelligence database of fraudsters.
The Travel Industry Intelligence Hub, a web-based encrypted database of confirmed fraudsters, has negotiated for agents to have access to domain name suppliers via a reporting system called Domain Trust.
The agreement means agents can report fraudulent sites, or search those already reported, to domain name suppliers, which handle the reservation of domain names and the assignment of IP addresses to those domain names.
The suppliers help enforcement bodies, such as the police, to take down sites. The IP addresses of domain names can be blocked or sites taken down by the suppliers.