Malware Activity in Top-level Domains (TLDs)
January 1,2023 - March 31,2023

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.

In the table below, we present the twenty TLDs that had the highest number of domains reported as serving up malware. A complete list of TLDs where malware was reported for the quarter can be downloaded in CSV format from the Records page.

Ranking of TLDs by Malware Domains (January to March 2023)

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

Rank TLD Total Malware Domains ▼
1 com 16,570
2 net 1,351
3 us 983
4 org 912
5 ru 864
6 br 616
7 me 524
8 in 478
9 cn 427
10 site 366
11 online 352
12 it 350
13 top 346
14 pl 340
15 xyz 297
16 id 270
17 de 260
18 eu 222
19 fr 214
20 uk 194

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