Collaborate Disseminate
Freenom, which offers free domain names in .tk and several other ccTLDs, is being sued by Meta for ignoring abuse complaints. Freenom subsequently paused new domain registrations in March 2023. Continue reading Impact of Freenom halting registrations on cybercrime
In the July 2023 survey we received responses from 1,101,218,364 sites across 255,719,341 domains and 12,125,956 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 5.5 million sites, but a gain of 231,918 domains and 19,453 web-facing computers.
Google saw the largest gain of 1.6 million sites (+2.90%) this month, alongside a gain of 704,130 domains (+31.8%). Google now accounts for 5.01% of sites (+0.17pp) and 1.14% of domains (+0.27pp) seen by Netcraft.
nginx saw the largest loss for the second month in a row, losing 7.6 million sites (-2.85%) and 960,778 domains (-1.68%) . This follows the loss of 19.5 million sites running nginx on top-level domains managed by Freenom in the June Survey. nginx now accounts for 23.6% of sites (-0.57pp) and 21.9% of domains (-0.40pp) seen by Netcraft.
Microsoft saw significant loss of 1.6 million sites (-4.66%), 117,600 domains (-1.63%), and 2,434 web-facing computers (-0.20%) this month. Microsoft now accounts for 2.99% of sites and 2.77% of domains seen by Netcraft, down by -0.13pp and -0.05pp respectively.
Cloudflare saw a significant growth of 1.0 million sites (+0.86%) and 191,665 domains (+0.74%). OpenResty also continued its growth with gains of 791,176 sites (+0.86%) and 797,587 domains (+2.03%). OpenResty now accounts for 8.45% of sites and 15.7% of domains seen by Netcraft, up by 0.11pp and 0.30pp respectively.
In the top million busiest sites, Microsoft gained 1,766 of the top million sites (+3.54%) which increased its market share by 0.18pp to 5.16%. LiteSpeed also continued its upward trend, gaining 1,079 sites (+3.35%) and increasing its market share by 0.11pp to 3.33%. At the top end, Apache lost 0.11pp of market share, falling further behind Cloudflare and nginx, which did not see any significant changes this month.
The Swiss Federal …
Netcraft, the global leader in cybercrime detection, disruption, and takedowns announced today that the company has raised over $100M from Spectrum Equity. Continue reading Netcraft Secures First Funding with Over $100M from Spectrum Equity; Names Experienced Technology Executive Ryan Woodley as New CEO
In the June 2023 survey we received responses from 1,106,671,903 sites across 255,487,423 domains and 12,106,503 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 2.7 million … Read More Continue reading June 2023 Web Server Survey
In the June 2023 survey we received responses from 1,106,671,903 sites across 255,487,423 domains and 12,106,503 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 2.7 million … Read More Continue reading June 2023 Web Server Survey
Exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer, criminals have deployed web shells on vulnerable file transfer servers and gained access to a variety of high-profile organizations. More than … Read More Continue reading Web shells persist days after MOVEit mitigation
Exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer, criminals have deployed web shells on vulnerable file transfer servers and gained access to a variety of high-profile organizations. More than … Read More Continue reading Web shells persist days after MOVEit mitigation
May 2023 Web Server Survey Continue reading May 2023 Web Server Survey
On May 3rd, Google Registry launched eight new top-level domains. Less than two weeks later, we’ve already discovered phishing attacks targeting … Continue reading Phishing attacks already using the .zip TLD
According to a list compiled by E2E and published in the Independent newspaper, Netcraft is amongst the 100 fastest growing technology companies in … Continue reading Netcraft among the UK’s 100 fastest growing technology companies