{"id":1018796,"date":"2026-07-04T07:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018796"},"modified":"2026-07-04T07:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:08:24","slug":"worlds-biggest-domain-seller-godaddy-fears-indias-fake-site-crackdown-could-damage-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/worlds-biggest-domain-seller-godaddy-fears-indias-fake-site-crackdown-could-damage-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s biggest domain seller, GoDaddy, fears India&#8217;s fake site crackdown could damage internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The world&#8217;s biggest internet domain seller, GoDaddy, has warned that India&#8217;s crackdown on fake websites impersonating famous brands will make the internet less safe for legitimate businesses and carry global ramifications. <\/p>\n<p>Soaring smartphone and internet use has coincided with a worsening problem of online fraud in India, the world&#8217;s most populous nation. It&#8217;s a key challenge for Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government, which last year received 2.4 million complaints of alleged cyber fraud amounting to $2.4 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The world&#8217;s biggest internet domain seller, GoDaddy, has warned that India&#8217;s crackdown on fake websites impersonating famous brands will make the internet less safe for legitimate businesses and carry global ramifications. Soaring smartphone and internet use has coincided with a worsening problem of online fraud in India, the world&#8217;s most populous nation. It&#8217;s a key challenge for Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government, which last year received 2.4 million complaints of alleged cyber fraud amounting to $2.4 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018818,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018796\/revisions\/1018818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}