Phishing Activity: Domain Registrars
Quarter over Quarter Comparison
November 1, 2021 - January 31, 2022
For purposes of observing change over time, it is useful to compare measurements and metrics over successive reporting periods. Such comparisons illustrate whether phishing activities are increasing or decreasing, and where such changes are occurring. Such comparisons can identify suspicious concentrations of phishing domains reported in registrar domain portfolios, and can identify registrars where phishers flock to purchase and manage phishing domains. Investigators or policy makers may focus on these for deeper analyses.
Table 1 uses the measurement reported phishing domains to compare the rankings of registrars during the August 1, 2021 to October 31, 2021 period to the rankings for the November 1, 2021 to January 31, 2022 period.
Ranking of Domain Registrars by Phishing Domains, Quarter over Quarter (November 2021 to January 2022)
Registrars with a minimum of 30,000 domains under management and 25 phishing domains
| Domains under Management | Number of Phishing Domains | ||||||||
| Rank | Registrar | IANA ID | August to October 2021 | November 2021 to January 2022 | August to October 2021 | November 2021 to January 2022 ▼ | |||
| 1 | — | NameCheap, Inc. | 1068 | 12,839,884 | 13,035,543 | (+2%) | 29,359 | 24,422 | (-17%) |
| 2 | ▲ +2* | GoDaddy.com, LLC | 146 | 65,705,671 | 65,538,336 | (-0%) | 12,594 | 11,826 | (-6%) |
| 3 | ▲ +2 | NameSilo, LLC | 1479 | 4,156,487 | 4,310,990 | (+4%) | 10,193 | 7,593 | (-26%) |
| 4 | ▼ -2 | ALIBABA.COM SINGAPORE E-COMMERCE PRIVATE LIMITED | 3775 | 1,338,031 | 1,677,442 | (+25%) | 19,419 | 6,200 | (-68%) |
| 5 | ▲ +1 | PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com | 303 | 5,151,478 | 5,012,480 | (-3%) | 5,828 | 5,699 | (-2%) |
| 6 | ▲ +16 | Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc | 460 | 518,147 | 648,122 | (+25%) | 981 | 3,475 | (+254%) |
| 7 | ▲ +2 | Registrar of Domain Names REG.RU LLC | 1606 | 698,565 | 692,481 | (-1%) | 4,404 | 3,249 | (-26%) |
| 8 | ▲ +3 | eNom, LLC | 48 | 4,872,121 | 4,749,416 | (-3%) | 2,545 | 2,918 | (+15%) |
| 9 | ▲ +8 | OwnRegistrar, Inc. | 1250 | 88,623 | 110,918 | (+25%) | 1,226 | 2,155 | (+76%) |
| 10 | ▲ +6 | Tucows Domains Inc. | 69 | 10,470,938 | 10,242,631 | (-2%) | 1,709 | 2,033 | (+19%) |
| 11 | ▼ -4 | Wild West Domains, LLC | 440 | 3,131,746 | 2,934,702 | (-6%) | 4,622 | 1,900 | (-59%) |
| 12 | ▲ +12 | Wix.com Ltd. | 3817 | 2,102,515 | 2,206,521 | (+5%) | 833 | 1,769 | (+112%) |
| 13 | — | Name.com, Inc. | 625 | 2,158,810 | 2,169,656 | (+1%) | 1,987 | 1,722 | (-13%) |
| 14 | ▲ +6 | Sav.com, LLC | 609 | 692,599 | 865,817 | (+25%) | 1,129 | 1,718 | (+52%) |
| 15 | ▼ -1 | Porkbun LLC | 1861 | 741,412 | 793,832 | (+7%) | 1,895 | 1,559 | (-18%) |
| 16 | ▼ -8 | GMO Internet, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com | 49 | 4,502,609 | 4,551,922 | (+1%) | 4,430 | 1,493 | (-66%) |
| 17 | ▼ -2 | Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu | 1647 | 1,464,417 | 1,646,192 | (+12%) | 1,761 | 1,458 | (-17%) |
| 18 | ▲ +1 | Google LLC | 895 | 6,593,883 | 6,913,254 | (+5%) | 1,152 | 1,432 | (+24%) |
| 19 | ▼ -7 | Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) | 1599 | 2,075,803 | 2,127,512 | (+2%) | 2,122 | 1,359 | (-36%) |
| 20 | ▲ +1 | Dynadot, LLC | 472 | 2,569,115 | 2,741,693 | (+7%) | 1,128 | 1,317 | (+17%) |
* Indicates change over prior quarter
Table 2 uses the metric phishing domain score to compare the rankings of registrars for the two measurement periods.
Ranking of Domain Registrars by Phishing Domain Score, Quarter over Quarter (November 2021 to January 2022)
Registrars with a minimum of 30,000 domains under management and 25 phishing domains
| Domains under Management | Phishing Domain Score | ||||||||
| Rank | Registrar | IANA ID | August to October 2021 | November 2021 to January 2022 | August to October 2021 | November 2021 to January 2022 ▼ | |||
| 1 | ▲ +1* | OwnRegistrar, Inc. | 1250 | 88,623 | 110,918 | (+25%) | 138.3 | 194.3 | (+40%) |
| 2 | ▲ +11 | Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc | 460 | 518,147 | 648,122 | (+25%) | 18.9 | 53.6 | (+184%) |
| 3 | ▲ +1 | Registrar of Domain Names REG.RU LLC | 1606 | 698,565 | 692,481 | (-1%) | 63 | 46.9 | (-26%) |
| 4 | ▲ +2 | Eranet International Limited | 1868 | 185,703 | 199,365 | (+7%) | 35.5 | 43.7 | (+23%) |
| 5 | ▼ -4 | ALIBABA.COM SINGAPORE E-COMMERCE PRIVATE LIMITED | 3775 | 1,338,031 | 1,677,442 | (+25%) | 145.1 | 37 | (-75%) |
| 6 | ▲ +6 | NETIM SARL | 1519 | 65,444 | 47,688 | (-27%) | 22.6 | 35.2 | (+56%) |
| 7 | N/R** | Reserved | 1 | N/A | 81,293 | (N/A%) | N/A | 34.4 | (N/A%) |
| 8 | ▲ +2 | TLD Registrar Solutions Ltd. | 1564 | 98,836 | 98,918 | (0%) | 23.3 | 33.5 | (+44%) |
| 9 | ▲ +9 | Internet Domain Service BS Corp | 2487 | 498,171 | 488,629 | (-2%) | 14.5 | 21.5 | (+48%) |
| 10 | ▲ +30 | CloudFlare, Inc. | 1910 | 342,219 | 380,063 | (+11%) | 4.6 | 20.1 | (+338%) |
| 11 | ▲ +4 | Sav.com, LLC | 609 | 692,599 | 865,817 | (+25%) | 16.3 | 19.8 | (+22%) |
| 12 | ▼ -5 | Porkbun LLC | 1861 | 741,412 | 793,832 | (+7%) | 25.6 | 19.6 | (-23%) |
| 13 | ▼ -5 | BigRock Solutions Ltd. | 1495 | 245,517 | 231,073 | (-6%) | 24.8 | 19.5 | (-21%) |
| 14 | ▼ -3 | NameCheap, Inc. | 1068 | 12,839,884 | 13,035,543 | (+2%) | 22.9 | 18.7 | (-18%) |
| 15 | ▼ -6 | NameSilo, LLC | 1479 | 4,156,487 | 4,310,990 | (+4%) | 24.5 | 17.6 | (-28%) |
| 16 | ▲ +4 | Hostinger, UAB | 1636 | 590,423 | 614,559 | (+4%) | 12.3 | 12.1 | (-2%) |
| 17 | N/R | Marcaria.com International, Inc. | 1086 | 34,534 | 34,460 | (-0%) | 1.7 | 11.9 | (+600%) |
| 18 | ▲ +11 | Domainshype.com, LLC | 1660 | 37,240 | 33,314 | (-11%) | 9.1 | 11.7 | (+29%) |
| 19 | ▲ +3 | PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com | 303 | 5,151,478 | 5,012,480 | (-3%) | 11.3 | 11.4 | (+1%) |
| 20 | ▲ +7 | OpenTLD B.V. | 1666 | 33,757 | 31,660 | (-6%) | 9.5 | 10.4 | (+10%) |
* Indicates change over prior quarter
** Indicates not ranked in prior quarter; either domains under management or number of phishing domains did not meet minimum threshold for ranking
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