Malware Activity: Domain Registrars Quarter over Quarter Comparison April 1,2025 - June 30,2025

For purposes of observing change over time, it is useful to compare measurements and metrics over successive reporting periods. Such comparisons illustrate whether malware activities are increasing or decreasing, and where such changes are occurring. Such comparisons can identify registrars where malware attackers flock to purchase and manage malware domains. Investigators or policy makers may focus on these for deeper analyses.

Complete lists of Top-level Domains, gTLD registrars and hosting networks (ASNs) where malware was reported for the quarter can be downloaded in CSV format from the Records page.

In the table below, we compare the number of domains reported for hosting malware under management at domain registrars for two consecutive quarters.

Ranking of Domain Registrars by Malware Domains, Quarter over Quarter (April to June 2025)

Registrars with a minimum of 30,000 domains under management and 25 malware domains

Total Malware Domains
Rank Registrar IANA ID January to March 2025 April to June 2025 ▼
1 ▲ +3* Dynadot Inc 472 718 4,218 (+487%)
2 PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 303 1,370 1,826 (+33%)
3 ▼ -2 NameCheap, Inc. 1068 1,672 1,764 (+6%)
4 ▼ -1 GoDaddy.com, LLC 146 961 977 (+2%)
5 ▲ +1 NameSilo, LLC 1479 516 667 (+29%)
6 ▼ -1 Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc 460 579 598 (+3%)
7 ▲ +1 Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 1923 385 595 (+55%)
8 ▲ +1 Tucows Domains Inc. 69 323 356 (+10%)
9 ▲ +18 Spaceship, Inc. 3862 88 341 (+288%)
10 ▲ +46 1API GmbH 1387 26 314 (+1,108%)
11 ▲ +2 HOSTINGER operations, UAB 1636 218 310 (+42%)
12 ▲ +2 GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com 49 197 250 (+27%)
13 ▲ +5 Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) 1599 139 173 (+24%)
14 ▲ +17 Porkbun LLC 1861 68 151 (+122%)
15 ▲ +25 Dominet (HK) Limited 3775 44 144 (+227%)
16 N/R** Domain International Services Limited 3863 18 131 (+628%)
17 ▼ -7 NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED 3765 249 126 (-49%)
18 ▼ -7 OVH sas 433 248 126 (-49%)
19 ▼ -4 Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu 1647 175 116 (-34%)
20 ▲ +2 Cloudflare, Inc. 1910 102 114 (+12%)

* Indicates change over prior quarter

** Indicates not ranked in prior quarter; either domains under management or number of malware domains did not meet minimum threshold for ranking


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