Terence Eden highlights an Interisle report revealing that 8.5 million of the 85 million new gTLD registrations in 2025 were added to blocklists by May, suggesting a 10-20% abuse rate. The finding that one in five newly registered gTLD domains are scams underscores a growing crisis in DNS security. ICANN has been discussing this problem for years, but the scale of the issue remains alarming.
Background
The Domain Name System (DNS) translates human-readable domain names into IP addresses, but it has become a primary vector for phishing, malware, and scam distribution. ICANN oversees gTLD registrations but has struggled to curb abuse at scale.
- Source
- Simon Willison
- Published
- Sep 6, 2026 at 10:40 PM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10