February 2026: Domain Activity Highlights
WhoisXML API analyzed 8.7+ million domains registered between 1 and 28 February 2026 that appeared in Newly Registered Domains to identify the most popular registrars, TLD extensions, and other global domain registration trends. This number dropped by 0.5% from 8.8+ million NRDs last month.
We also determined the top TLD extensions used by 2.3+ million domains registered with malicious intent from the First Watch Malicious Domains Data Feed in February 2026. This number increased by 5.4% from the previous month.
Next, we studied the top TLD extensions of 1.08+ million confirmed malicious domains from the Threat Intelligence Data Feeds this month, which dropped by 1.4% from 1.09+ million in January.
Finally, we summed up our findings and provided links to the threat reports produced using DNS and domain intelligence sources during the period.