Malware Activity: Domain Registrars
Quarter over Quarter Comparison
October 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
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.
Ranking of Domain Registrars by Malware Domains, Quarter over Quarter (October to December 2021)
Registrars with a minimum of 30,000 domains under management and 25 malware domains
| Total Malware Domains | ||||||
| Rank | Registrar | IANA ID | July to September 2021 | October to December 2021 ▼ | ||
| 1 | — | GoDaddy.com, LLC | 146 | 11,996 | 5,409 | (-55%) |
| 2 | ▲ +3* | PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com | 303 | 1,071 | 2,448 | (+129%) |
| 3 | ▼ -1 | NameCheap, Inc. | 1068 | 3,731 | 2,203 | (-41%) |
| 4 | ▼ -1 | NameSilo, LLC | 1479 | 2,218 | 1,279 | (-42%) |
| 5 | ▲ +2 | eNom, LLC | 48 | 566 | 806 | (+42%) |
| 6 | — | Tucows Domains Inc. | 69 | 593 | 664 | (+12%) |
| 7 | ▲ +8 | Alibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. | 420 | 219 | 559 | (+155%) |
| 8 | ▼ -4 | Dynadot, LLC | 472 | 1,214 | 546 | (-55%) |
| 9 | ▲ +1 | GMO Internet, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com | 49 | 274 | 378 | (+38%) |
| 10 | ▲ +10 | Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc | 460 | 188 | 358 | (+90%) |
| 11 | ▲ +7 | Network Solutions, LLC | 2 | 203 | 333 | (+64%) |
| 12 | ▲ +18 | OnlineNIC, Inc. | 82 | 104 | 327 | (+214%) |
| 13 | ▼ -5 | Wild West Domains, LLC | 440 | 463 | 316 | (-32%) |
| 14 | ▲ +12 | Xin Net Technology Corporation | 120 | 116 | 250 | (+116%) |
| 15 | ▲ +18 | OVH sas | 433 | 95 | 239 | (+152%) |
| 16 | — | Name.com, Inc. | 625 | 216 | 236 | (+9%) |
| 17 | ▲ +26 | P.A. Viet Nam Company Limited | 1649 | 62 | 221 | (+256%) |
| 18 | ▲ +3 | IONOS SE | 83 | 141 | 213 | (+51%) |
| 19 | ▼ -5 | Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu | 1647 | 233 | 202 | (-13%) |
| 20 | ▲ +7 | Key-Systems GmbH | 269 | 114 | 192 | (+68%) |
* Indicates change over prior quarter
Comparisons of:
Activity in Domain Registrars