Malware Activity: Domain Registrars Quarter over Quarter Comparison April 1,2026 - June 30,2026

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 2026)

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

Total Malware Domains
Rank Registrar IANA ID January to March 2026 April to June 2026 ▼
1 eNom, LLC 48 15,072 3,770 (-75%)
2 ▲ +1* NameCheap, Inc. 1068 2,723 3,161 (+16%)
3 ▲ +49 Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER 463 36 3,132 (+8,600%)
4 PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com 303 1,624 3,097 (+91%)
5 GoDaddy.com, LLC 146 1,178 1,379 (+17%)
6 ▲ +2 NameSilo, LLC 1479 571 882 (+54%)
7 ▼ -5 Dynadot Inc 472 4,205 859 (-80%)
8 ▼ -1 Gandi SAS 81 705 675 (-4%)
9 ▲ +1 HOSTINGER operations, UAB 1636 370 627 (+69%)
10 ▼ -4 NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED 3765 758 519 (-32%)
11 ▼ -2 Spaceship, Inc. 3862 396 492 (+24%)
12 ▼ -1 Tucows Domains Inc. 69 348 424 (+22%)
13 ▲ +12 IONOS SE 83 93 371 (+299%)
14 ▲ +4 Global Domain Group LLC 3956 128 269 (+110%)
15 ▲ +11 Alibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. 420 91 245 (+169%)
16 Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc 460 148 237 (+60%)
17 ▼ -4 Gname.com Pte. Ltd. 1923 298 235 (-21%)
18 ▼ -3 OVH sas 433 173 218 (+26%)
19 ▲ +2 Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu 1647 109 198 (+82%)
20 ▲ +4 Cloudflare, Inc. 1910 100 184 (+84%)

* Indicates change over prior quarter


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