Phishing Activity: Domain Registrars
Quarter over Quarter Comparison
February 1, 2021 - April 30, 2021
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.
In the table below, we use the measurement reported phishing domains to compare the rankings of registrars during the November 1, 2020 - January 31, 2021 period to the ranking for the February 1, 2021 - April 30, 2021 period.
Ranking of Domain Registrars by Phishing Domains,Quarter over Quarter (February to April 2021)
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 | November 2020 to January 2021 | February to April 2021 | November 2020 to January 2021 | February to April 2021 ▼ | |||
| 1 | — | NameCheap, Inc. | 1068 | 11,283,131 | 12,056,827 | (+7%) | 25,718 | 31,178 | (+21%) |
| 2 | — | NameSilo, LLC | 1479 | 3,434,955 | 3,700,334 | (+8%) | 8,456 | 14,345 | (+70%) |
| 3 | — | GoDaddy.com, LLC | 146 | 63,978,616 | 65,028,867 | (+2%) | 7,319 | 8,859 | (+21%) |
| 4 | — | PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com | 303 | 5,102,811 | 5,142,280 | (+1%) | 4,065 | 4,921 | (+21%) |
| 5 | ▲ +86* | Key-Systems, LLC | 1345 | 409,041 | 537,968 | (+32%) | 37 | 3,194 | (+8,532%) |
| 6 | ▲ +5 | GMO Internet, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com | 49 | 4,867,552 | 4,625,236 | (-5%) | 1,666 | 3,136 | (+88%) |
| 7 | ▼ -1 | Wild West Domains, LLC | 440 | 2,821,556 | 2,926,467 | (+4%) | 2,887 | 2,427 | (-16%) |
| 8 | ▲ +10 | Registrar of Domain Names REG.RU LLC | 1606 | 865,777 | 783,211 | (-10%) | 1,071 | 2,269 | (+112%) |
| 9 | ▼ -2 | Tucows Domains Inc. | 69 | 10,505,887 | 10,626,889 | (+1%) | 2,476 | 2,191 | (-12%) |
| 10 | — | eNom, LLC | 48 | 5,113,538 | 5,008,121 | (-2%) | 1,673 | 2,107 | (+26%) |
| 11 | ▲ +5 | ALIBABA.COM SINGAPORE E-COMMERCE PRIVATE LIMITED | 3775 | 993,835 | 1,201,823 | (+21%) | 1,240 | 1,740 | (+40%) |
| 12 | ▼ -3 | Google LLC | 895 | 5,512,969 | 6,007,763 | (+9%) | 1,957 | 1,732 | (-11%) |
| 13 | ▼ -5 | Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc | 460 | 1,369,388 | 699,154 | (-49%) | 2,016 | 1,557 | (-23%) |
| 14 | ▲ +3 | Jiangsu Bangning Science & technology Co. Ltd. | 1469 | 642,425 | 565,274 | (-12%) | 1,128 | 1,523 | (+35%) |
| 15 | ▼ -3 | Name.com, Inc. | 625 | 2,164,002 | 2,185,150 | (+1%) | 1,631 | 1,053 | (-35%) |
| 16 | ▼ -11 | Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) | 1599 | 5,077,134 | 2,900,636 | (-43%) | 3,859 | 1,002 | (-74%) |
| 17 | ▼ -3 | Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu | 1647 | 1,036,508 | 1,176,164 | (+13%) | 1,431 | 946 | (-34%) |
| 18 | ▼ -5 | Wix.com Ltd. | 3817 | 1,429,275 | 1,778,545 | (+24%) | 1,576 | 909 | (-42%) |
| 19 | — | BigRock Solutions Ltd. | 1495 | 270,612 | 261,465 | (-3%) | 769 | 675 | (-12%) |
| 20 | ▲ +12 | Hostinger, UAB | 1636 | 560,781 | 546,774 | (-2%) | 331 | 671 | (+103%) |
* Indicates change over prior quarter
In the table below, we use the metric phishing domain score to compare the rankings of registrars during the November 1, 2020 - January 31, 2021 period to the ranking for the February 1, 2021 - April 30, 2021 period.
Ranking of Domain Registrars by Phishing Domain Score, Quarter over Quarter (February to April 2021)
Registrars with a minimum of 30,000 domains under management and 25 phishing domains
| Domains under Management | Phishing Domain Score | ||||||||
| Rank | Registrar | IANA ID | November 2020 to January 2021 | February to April 2021 | November 2020 to January 2021 | February to April 2021 ▼ | |||
| 1 | ▲ +92* | Key-Systems, LLC | 1345 | 409,041 | 537,968 | (+32%) | 0.9 | 59.4 | (+6,497%) |
| 2 | ▼ -1 | TLD Registrar Solutions Ltd. | 1564 | 95,714 | 92,073 | (-4%) | 28.4 | 50.1 | (+76%) |
| 3 | — | NameSilo, LLC | 1479 | 3,434,955 | 3,700,334 | (+8%) | 24.6 | 38.8 | (+57%) |
| 4 | ▲ +11 | Registrar of Domain Names REG.RU LLC | 1606 | 865,777 | 783,211 | (-10%) | 12.4 | 29 | (+134%) |
| 5 | ▲ +1 | Jiangsu Bangning Science & technology Co. Ltd. | 1469 | 642,425 | 565,274 | (-12%) | 17.6 | 26.9 | (+53%) |
| 6 | ▼ -1 | NameCheap, Inc. | 1068 | 11,283,131 | 12,056,827 | (+7%) | 22.8 | 25.9 | (+13%) |
| 7 | ▼ -5 | BigRock Solutions Ltd. | 1495 | 270,612 | 261,465 | (-3%) | 28.4 | 25.8 | (-9%) |
| 8 | ▲ +25 | OwnRegistrar, Inc. | 1250 | 250,703 | 154,188 | (-38%) | 4.7 | 24.7 | (+423%) |
| 9 | — | Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc | 460 | 1,369,388 | 699,154 | (-49%) | 14.7 | 22.3 | (+51%) |
| 10 | ▲ +2 | NETIM SARL | 1519 | 42,123 | 59,392 | (+41%) | 13.1 | 18.9 | (+44%) |
| 11 | N/R** | Squarespace Domains LLC | 3827 | N/A | 112,876 | (N/A%) | N/A | 18.8 | (N/A%) |
| 12 | ▲ +20 | NetEarth One Inc. d/b/a NetEarth | 1005 | 141,899 | 139,321 | (-2%) | 4.7 | 15.6 | (+230%) |
| 13 | ▲ +1 | ALIBABA.COM SINGAPORE E-COMMERCE PRIVATE LIMITED | 3775 | 993,835 | 1,201,823 | (+21%) | 12.5 | 14.5 | (+16%) |
| 14 | ▼ -7 | Internet Domain Service BS Corp | 2487 | 388,964 | 407,284 | (+5%) | 16.8 | 12.9 | (-23%) |
| 15 | ▲ +3 | Ligne Web Services SARL dba LWS | 1630 | 109,308 | 121,022 | (+11%) | 9.7 | 12.5 | (+29%) |
| 16 | N/R | Regtime Ltd. | 1362 | N/A | 34,519 | (N/A%) | N/A | 12.5 | (N/A%) |
| 17 | ▲ +10 | Hostinger, UAB | 1636 | 560,781 | 546,774 | (-2%) | 5.9 | 12.3 | (+108%) |
| 18 | ▼ -7 | Atak Domain Hosting Internet ve Bilgi Teknolojileri Limited Sirketi d/b/a Atak Teknoloji | 1601 | 98,701 | 126,343 | (+28%) | 13.8 | 12.2 | (-12%) |
| 19 | — | Domainshype.com, LLC | 1660 | 36,054 | 37,359 | (+4%) | 8.6 | 11.8 | (+37%) |
| 20 | ▼ -12 | OpenTLD B.V. | 1666 | 36,023 | 36,024 | (0%) | 16.4 | 11.1 | (-32%) |
* 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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