Malware Activity in Top-level Domains (TLDs)
July 1,2022 - September 30,2022

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 (July to September 2022)

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

Rank TLD Total Malware Domains ▼
1 com 11,803
2 net 986
3 br 839
4 ru 670
5 org 651
6 in 524
7 ml 417
8 cloud 320
9 xyz 310
10 pl 258
11 top 256
12 hu 252
13 id 241
14 de 220
15 vn 185
16 it 182
17 ga 180
18 cn 175
19 fr 168
20 us 164

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