Q1 domain name round-up
Verisign’s Domain Name Industry Brief for the first quarter of 2021 has shown a decrease of 0.8% in domain name registration numbers across all Top Level Domains (TLDs) when compared with the fourth quarter of 2020. The decrease highlighted in the Brief seems, at first glance, to buck the trend observed in a number of ccTLDs, such as Germany, ...
Breaking Down Phishing Site ccTLDs
Cybercriminals continue to heavily abuse domains for phishing attacks. It has found that 96% used Generic (gTLD) or Country Code (ccTLD) Top-level Domains. There were seven ccTLDs represented among the top 10 most abused TLDs. The seven had 83% of all phishing scams hosted on ccTLDs. It should be noted that five of the seven ccTLDs can ...
Domain Name Brand Protection Strategies
The majority of high risk point-of-law (POLs) in domain arbitration relate to brand targeting, which has grown at a rate of +11% since 2011. That said, 2.4% of high risk POLs are related to security targeting and three of these POLs have grown consistently and significantly in the last decade: +52% identity theft, +116% email fraud and +27% ...
TOP 10 LARGEST CCTLDS BY NUMBER OF REPORTED DOMAIN NAMES
The top 10 ccTLDs, as of March 31, 2021, were .tk, .cn, .de, .uk, .nl, .ru, .br, .fr, .eu and .it.
As of March 31, 2021, there were 308 global ccTLD extensions delegated in the root zone, including IDNs, with the top 10 ccTLDs comprising 64.3% of all ccTLD domain name registrations.
Source: ZookNIC, Q1 2021