SpamHaus, a global keeper of domain and IP violations, maintains a list of abusive behavior originating from a large variety of gTLDs and TLDs.
How does SpamHaus measure that type of negative performance among domain extensions?
The abusive behavior of domain TLDs is calculated as the ratio of abusive domains that exist in a given TLD, to its total number of active domains.
As of 28 December 2018, the TLDs with the worst reputations for spam operations are:
- .Loan – A total of 2,219,128 domains registered, most in China.
- .Work – A total of 529,262 domains registered, most in Japan.
- .GQ – No registration data
Here are the 10 most abused TLDs, as shared by SpamHaus:
For the detailed article on the badness of TLD domains, click here.
