According to a 2015 paper, 85% of new gTLDs domains was some form of parking, defensive redirect, unused, etc: <http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/imc/2015/papers/p381.pdf>
Hugo On 15:02 01/12, J. Hellenthal wrote: > 99% ? That's a pretty high figure there. > > -- > Onward!, > Jason Hellenthal, > Systems & Network Admin, > Mobile: 0x9CA0BD58, > JJH48-ARIN > > On Dec 1, 2016, at 14:56, Rich Kulawiec <r...@gsp.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 05:34:26PM -0000, John Levine wrote: > > [...] 800,000 domain names used to control it. > > 1. Which is why abusers are registrars' best customers and why > (some) registrars work so very hard to support and shield them. > > 2. As an aside, I've been doing a little research project for a > few years, focused on domains. I've become convinced that *at least* > 99% of domains belong to abusers: spammers, phishers, typosquatters, > malware distributors, domaineers, combinations of these, etc. > > In the last year, I've begun thinking that 99% is a serious underestimate. > (And it most certainly is in some of the new gTLDs.) > > ---rsk >
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