TLDs used for phishing 2012-2016

Published by Ani Petrosyan, Aug 25, 2023
The statistic shows the number of top-level domains used for phishing attacks from 2012 to 2016. During the most recently measured period, phishing attacks occurred in 454 top-level domains (TLD).

Number of TLDs used for phishing from 2012 to 2016

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Release date

June 2017

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2013 to 2016

Supplementary notes

Seventy-five percent of the malicious domain registrations were made in just four TLDs: .COM, .CC, .PW, and .TK. More than 90% of malicious domains were found in just 14 TLDs, the top four plus .INFO, .NET, .GA, .TOP, .CF, .ML, .CN, .GQ, and .VE.

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