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Interisle report finds roughly one in five new gTLD registrations are scams
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An Interisle report cited by Terence Eden shows that of 85 million new gTLD registrations in 2025, 8.5 million were added to blocklists by May, indicating a 10 to 20% abuse rate where approximately one in five newly registered domains are scams.
For anyone building systems that treat domain names as trust signals, email reputation, URL filtering, identity verification, a baseline 10 to 20% abuse rate among new registrations means that trust can no longer be assumed by default. ICANN has reportedly discussed this for years without resolution, so no structural fix is coming from the governance layer.
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85 million new gTLD registrations were made in 2025, and 8.5 million of those were added to blocklists by May 2025.
The Interisle report estimates the abuse rate floor at 10% and likely closer to 20%, meaning roughly one in five new gTLD domains are scams.
ICANN has reportedly been discussing this abuse problem for years without apparent resolution.
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