Malware Activity in Top-level Domains (TLDs)
October 1, 2023 - December 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 (October to December 2023)

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

Rank TLD Total Malware Domains ▼
1 com 18,965
2 net 1,980
3 org 1,567
4 info 1,125
5 br 1,120
6 uk 663
7 ru 631
8 top 597
9 in 536
10 shop 468
11 de 394
12 xyz 384
13 it 341
14 co 305
15 pl 304
16 cn 303
17 fr 293
18 id 285
19 online 277
20 au 262

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