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 <rsk@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