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ScoutDNS Most Abused Top Level Domains List – November 2020

About the Report

This is a look at aggregate threats sorted by Top Level Domains from across our global user base for November 2020. While reports such as the monthly DAAR TLD Threat Assessment showcase total known threats as reported through DAAR to ICAAN, our report shows the usage pattern from actual users counting total threats stopped. This data is by no means meant to be web-wide authoritative, but rather just a snapshot of data from us as a single provider (ScoutDNS).

Data Used

We are counting aggregate threats resolved from all domains supporting six threat categories we track which include: Malware C&C, Phishing, Adware, Malicious Scripts, Infected Hosts, and Viruses. Our users come from a broad set and include nonprofits, schools, retailers, small business, healthcare, government, and enterprise located mostly in North America, Europe, Africa, and Australia.

Changes Since Last

The top 5 remain mostly the same with the exception that .name has fallen completely outside the top 30, when in the last report was at #4. It has been replaced inside the top 5 with .moe

 

 Top 30 Abused TLDs

TLD Percent
com 64.84%
net 16.55%
eu 8.45%
moe 6.49%
co 8.14%
info 7.87%
org 0.74%
it 0.47%
ru 0.43%
racing 0.40%
mobi 0.31%
life 0.30%
io 0.29%
xyz 0.29%
club 0.20%
cc 0.20%
me 0.18%
cn 0.15%
live 0.13%
de 0.13%
ch 0.13%
pw 0.12%
in 0.07%
stream 0.07%
au 0.06%
site 0.06%
top 0.06%
gm 0.05%
fr 0.04%
vip 0.04%

Other Recommended Reports

ICANN’s Domain Abuse Activity Reporting (DAAR) project

SPAMHAUS TLD Usage in Spam Operations

 

 

More To Explore

Custom Block Pages

We are happy to announce that custom block pages are here and available for all ScoutDNS accounts. Along with our improved block page service, operators

New Relay Caching Feature v1.3.1

Excited to announce we have added caching to the ScoutDNS relays. This allows the fastest possible queries to users and devices on network with sub-millisecond

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