Most Abused TLDs Ranking

[SCP Foundation]

Guys what are your thoughts on this ranking ?
Do you find it true ?
Also do you think the results affect somehow the value and usability of each tld ?

 

[LoveCatchyDomains]

What organization puts this out? And what are the criteria for the rankings?

 

[GoodKindName]

They gave .surf really hard time with just 200 "bad" domains

 

[SCP Foundation]

What organization puts this out? And what are the criteria for the rankings?

it's from the Spamhaus project, they want to track spams and other related cyber threats like phishing and bots

they are basing their score on the ratio between the number of bad domains and the number of active ones in each tld

here you can see how exactly they do this https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/

 

[SCP Foundation]

They gave .surf really hard time with just 200 "bad" domains

yeah it's a discrimination against .surf domains they are not fair how will future genrations surf if we allow such discrimination?

 

[Bob Hawkes]

It is true, but important to realize that in some cases it is based on a very small sample, and also which TLDs are on this list vary from week to week, somewhat.

Spamhaus are the experts on spam, with their results used to protect about half of all of the email boxes in the world. They have a significant staff, 38 investigators currently, and have been doing this for over 24 years. Read more about Spamhaus here. As an international nonprofit they have no stake other than in reducing malicious actors and spam.

The way they do it is they compare the number of bad specific domains with the total number of active (i.e. used for email) domains to get the percentage. The score is obtained by multiplying this percentage by the logarithm of the number of bad domains (see https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/).

As pointed out, .surf was bad but that was based only on email accounts that were 'bad' on 176 different domains. Maybe not significant, but there were only 270 domains among the much higher number registered that appeared in use for email.

Just to the left of this listing of 10 worst, one can in a pull-down menu check any TLD for percentage and score (but not number active and bad, unfortunately).

Most of the time the free country codes, and some selection of lightly used new gTLDs, comprise the worst 10, although occasionally others (such as now .cn).

-Bob