A View into Top Level Domain (TLD) Abuse

Data science and security research teams in the carrier organization at Akamai process massive volumes of DNS queries every day to detect and track malicious activity. The data is live-streamed from DNS resolvers deployed in diverse service provider networks in every region of the world. Providers who supply the data anonymize it using Cryptography-based Prefix-preserving Anonymization (Crypto-PAn), a well known tool.