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Trends, policy and cheap TLDs - an interview with Dave Piscitello (Part 1)

ID: 0196d17f-9870-53af-8bab-575565f37183

STIX ID: report--0196d17f-9870-53af-8bab-575565f37183

Feed Name: The Spamhaus Project

Threat Score
40/100

Date Published: 2024-03-06

Date Updated: 2026-04-30

Author: The Spamhaus Team

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The report highlights a notable trend: attackers concentrated phishing and spam domain registrations on Freenom's free ccTLDs (.tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq), contributing a large share of blocklisted ccTLD domains; following legal action by Meta and Freenom closing those services, blocklisted domains in those TLDs declined sharply.

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