Malware Activity: Domain Registrars
Quarter over Quarter Comparison
January 1, 2022 - March 31, 2022
For purposes of observing change over time, it is useful to compare measurements and metrics over successive reporting periods. Such comparisons illustrate whether malware activities are increasing or decreasing, and where such changes are occurring. Such comparisons can identify registrars where malware attackers flock to purchase and manage malware domains. Investigators or policy makers may focus on these for deeper analyses.
In the table below, we compare the number of reported malware domains under management at domain registrars for the two consecutive quarters.
Registrars with a minimum of 30,000 domains under management and 25 malware domains
| Total Malware Domains | ||||||
| Rank | Registrar | IANA ID | October to December 2021 | January to March 2022 ▼ | ||
| 1 | — | GoDaddy.com, LLC | 146 | 5,409 | 5,486 | (+1%) |
| 2 | — | PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com | 303 | 2,448 | 3,048 | (+25%) |
| 3 | — | NameCheap, Inc. | 1068 | 2,203 | 2,430 | (+10%) |
| 4 | — | NameSilo, LLC | 1479 | 1,279 | 1,355 | (+6%) |
| 5 | ▲ +1* | Tucows Domains Inc. | 69 | 664 | 1,155 | (+74%) |
| 6 | ▲ +5 | Network Solutions, LLC | 2 | 333 | 1,122 | (+237%) |
| 7 | ▼ -2 | eNom, LLC | 48 | 806 | 907 | (+13%) |
| 8 | ▼ -1 | Alibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. | 420 | 559 | 905 | (+62%) |
| 9 | ▲ +3 | OnlineNIC, Inc. | 82 | 327 | 454 | (+39%) |
| 10 | N/R** | MAFF Inc. | 817 | 2 | 442 | (+22,000%) |
| 11 | ▼ -2 | GMO Internet, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com | 49 | 378 | 430 | (+14%) |
| 12 | ▲ +7 | Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu | 1647 | 202 | 387 | (+92%) |
| 13 | ▼ -5 | Dynadot, LLC | 472 | 546 | 383 | (-30%) |
| 14 | ▲ +1 | OVH sas | 433 | 239 | 378 | (+58%) |
| 15 | ▼ -5 | Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc | 460 | 358 | 377 | (+5%) |
| 16 | ▲ +2 | IONOS SE | 83 | 213 | 336 | (+58%) |
| 17 | ▼ -4 | Wild West Domains, LLC | 440 | 316 | 316 | (0%) |
| 18 | ▼ -1 | P.A. Viet Nam Company Limited | 1649 | 221 | 304 | (+38%) |
| 19 | ▼ -5 | Xin Net Technology Corporation | 120 | 250 | 300 | (+20%) |
| 20 | — | Key-Systems GmbH | 269 | 192 | 271 | (+41%) |
* Indicates change over prior quarter
** Indicates not ranked in prior quarter; either domains under management or number of malware domains did not meet minimum threshold for ranking
Comparisons of:
Activity in Domain Registrars