Malware Activity in Top-level Domains (TLDs)
April 1 - June 30, 2021

We analyzed the domains reported as serving up malware to see how they were distributed across the top-level domains. For our analysis, we extract the Top-level Domain (e.g., com, xyz, uk) from the hostnames we found in malware reports.

For the period, we identified 63 TLDs with a minimum of 30,000 domains and 25 malware domains

21 TLDs had more than 100 domain names reported for serving up malware

6 TLDs had more than 500 domain names reported for serving up malware

1 TLDs had more than 1000 domain names reported for serving up malware

In the table below, we present the twenty TLDs that had the highest number of domains reported as serving up malware.

Ranking of TLDs by Malware Domains (April to June 2021)

TLDs with a minimum of 30,000 domains and 25 malware domains

Rank TLD Total Malware Domains ▼
1 com 8,026
2 ru 997
3 xyz 819
4 buzz 666
5 net 630
6 br 565
7 org 467
8 top 391
9 in 351
10 xn--p1ai 332
11 cn 278
12 info 214
13 vip 191
14 uk 171
15 online 159
16 co 156
17 cloud 153
18 de 130
19 za 121
20 au 107