Phishing Landscape 2020:
Top 20 Top-level Domains by Malicious Phishing Domain Count
Rank |
TLD |
TLD type |
Domains in TLD |
Phishing Domains |
Malicious Phishing Domains |
% malicious |
1 |
com |
legacy gTLD |
151,931,301 |
43,753 |
24,925 |
57.0% |
2 |
tk |
Freenom ccTLD |
25,644,936 |
3,798 |
3,362 |
88.5% |
3 |
buzz |
new gTLD |
604,706 |
2,704 |
2,674 |
98.9% |
4 |
xyz |
new gTLD |
3,136,553 |
4,059 |
2,669 |
65.8% |
5 |
top |
new gTLD |
3,748,802 |
3,003 |
2,441 |
81.3% |
6 |
ga |
Freenom ccTLD |
5,057,226 |
2,574 |
2,186 |
84.9% |
7 |
ml |
Freenom ccTLD |
4,162,031 |
2,559 |
2,046 |
80.0% |
8 |
info |
legacy gTLD |
4,787,440 |
2,316 |
1,960 |
84.6% |
9 |
cf |
Freenom ccTLD |
4,453,018 |
1,915 |
1,636 |
85.4% |
10 |
gq |
Freenom ccTLD |
3,692,011 |
1,738 |
1,522 |
87.6% |
11 |
icu |
new gTLD |
6,611,658 |
1,589 |
1,456 |
91.6% |
12 |
wang |
new gTLD |
1,392,249 |
1,385 |
1,367 |
98.7% |
13 |
live |
new gTLD |
719,372 |
1,116 |
1,019 |
91.3% |
14 |
net |
legacy gTLD |
13,705,756 |
2,319 |
1,013 |
43.7% |
15 |
cn |
ccTLD |
15,961,895 |
1,216 |
910 |
74.8% |
16 |
online |
new gTLD |
1,586,898 |
1,173 |
730 |
62.2% |
17 |
host |
new gTLD |
97,718 |
667 |
657 |
98.5% |
18 |
org |
legacy gTLD |
10,648,071 |
1,639 |
540 |
32.9% |
19 |
us |
ccTLD |
1,668,953 |
709 |
490 |
69.1% |
20 |
ru< |
ccTLD |
4,867,074 |
1,281 |
446 |
34.8% |