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Domain Activity Reports

January 2025 Top 10 gTLD and ccTLD Highlights

The WhoisXML API research team analyzed 7.6+ million domains registered between 1 and 31 January 2025, along with 61.2+ billion domains from our DNS database’s A record full file released in January 2025.

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Global Domain Activity Report: Q4 2024

Let’s cap off 2024 with the Global Domain Activity Report for Q4, this time focusing on registrant behaviors connected to 24.4+ million newly registered domains (NRDs). We also analyzed 3.5+ million indicators of compromise (IoCs) detected in the same period, 697.4+ million mail exchange (MX) resolutions, and 1.5+ billion name server (NS) resolutions.

Our research team leveraged WhoisXML API’s extensive domain, DNS, and threat intelligence to uncover:

December 2024 Top 10 gTLD and ccTLD Highlights

The WhoisXML API research team analyzed 7.9+ million domains registered between 1 and 31 December 2024, along with 60.1+ billion domains from our DNS database’s A record full file and 1.3+ million domains detected as indicators of compromise (IoCs) for the month.

Our research team uncovered:

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November 2024 Top 10 gTLD and ccTLD Highlights

The WhoisXML API research team analyzed 8.2 million domains registered between 1 and 30 November 2024, 59.6 billion domains from our DNS database’s A record full file released in November 2024, and 1.1 million domains detected as indicators of compromise (IoCs) in the same month.

Our research team uncovered:

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October 2024 Top 10 gTLD and ccTLD Highlights

The WhoisXML API research team analyzed more than 8.2 million domains registered between 1 and 31 October 2024, 57.4 billion domains from our DNS database’s A record full file released in October 2024, and more than 1 million domains detected as indicators of compromise (IoCs) in the same month.

Our research team uncovered:

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Global Domain Activity Report: Q3 2024

Time for another edition of the Global Domain Activity Report, this time focusing on registrant behaviors connected to nearly 22 million newly registered domains (NRDs) in Q3 2024. We also analyzed 618+ million mail exchange (MX) resolutions, 1+ billion name server (NS) resolutions, and 3+ million indicators of compromise (IoCs) detected in the same period.

Our research team leveraged WhoisXML API’s extensive domain, DNS, and threat intelligence to uncover:

September 2024 Top 10 gTLD and ccTLD Highlights

The WhoisXML API research team analyzed more than 7.1 million domains registered between 1 and 30 September 2024, 60.1 billion domains from our DNS database’s A record full file released in September 2024, and more than 1 million domains detected as indicators of compromise (IoCs) in the same month.

Our research team uncovered:

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August 2024 Top 10 gTLD and ccTLD Highlights

The WhoisXML API research team analyzed more than 7.4 million domains registered between 1 and 31 August 2024, 59.2 billion domains from our DNS database’s A record full file released in August 2024, and more than 1 million domains detected as indicators of compromise (IoCs) in the same month.

Our research team uncovered:

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