The purpose of DNS is to spread scams
Interisle data cited by Terence Eden shows 8.5 million of 85 million new 2025 gTLD registrations blocklisted, implying a 10-20% scam domain abuse rate.
Terence Eden highlights statistics from an Interisle report on Domain Name System abuse. Of 85 million new gTLD registrations in 2025, 8.5 million were added to blocklists by May 2025, suggesting a 10% abuse floor that is likely closer to 20%. Eden calls the roughly one-in-five scam rate for newly registered gTLD domains a crisis and notes ICANN has discussed the problem for years.
- 85 million new gTLD registrations recorded in 2025
- 8.5 million of those domains were blocklisted by May 2025
- Estimated abuse rate is a 10% floor, likely near 20%
- ICANN has been discussing domain abuse for years
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams Terence Eden shares some daunting statistics in support of his take that "the Domain Name System's purpose seems to be a vector for criminals to run scams on people at a terrifyingly high rate". On this Interisle report ( via Andrew Campling ), Terence says: It says 85 million new registrations of gTLDs were made in 2025. Of those 8.5 million were added to blocklists by May 2025. It reckons that a 10% abuse rate is the likely floor for these numbers and it's probably closer to 20%. One in five newly registered domains with a gTLD are scams. That's a bloody crisis. I had no idea. Apparently ICANN have been discussing this problem for years. Tags: dns ,…
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