Top registrars for TLD attacks 2018

In 2018, the registrars the registrar with the highest share of top-level domain (TLD) attacks was GoDaddy.com, LLC. GoDaddy accounted for 17 percent of global TLD attack registrations. That year, the top TLD for TLD attacks was .app.

Top domain registrars for TLD attacks worldwide in 2018

Characteristic	Share of TLD attacks
GoDaddy.com, LLC	17%
NameCheap, Inc.	12%
Alibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd.	10%
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com	5%
Tucows Domain Inc.	3%
Google Inc.	3%
Name.com, Inc.	3%
Dynadot LLC	2%
Key-Systems LLC	2%
Chengdu West Dimenson Digital Technology Co., Ltd.	2%
Unregistrar Corp	2%
Network Solutions, LLC	2%
OVH	2%
GMO Internet, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com	2%
Gandi SAS	1%
Registrar of Domain Names REG.RU, LLC	1%
1&1 Internet SE	1%
1API GmbH	1%
NameSilo, LLC	1%
Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER	1%

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Release date

June 2019

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2018

Supplementary notes

According to the source, "TLD attacks are exact matches of the brand domain with different endings after the “dot.” For example, if the brand-owned domain was acmeanvils.com, threat actors might register acmeanvils.gq or acmeanvils.work."

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