As the world battled Covid-19 in the midst of a lockdown, cybercriminals surreptitiously registered new domains as part of their devious plans to target businesses and individuals after domain registrations in the UK and Australia reported an unusual spike in domains. reservations in April. Nominet UK's local registry declared 132,250 new domain registrations in April 2020, a peak of 15,000 from the previous month, Australia's auDA registry registered 48,754 new domains, the biggest month for new domain registrations for several years. It is not uncommon for cybercriminals to create new ones or modify existing scams in times of public uncertainty as the world is going through.
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Nominet CEO Russell Haworth recently said the company had suspended more than 28,000 domains used for criminal activity between November 1, 2018 and October 31, 2019. Haworth said the company had used its DNS skills to recover develop in the cybersecurity market, which allows them to keep an eye on all questionable reserves. The company said it had seen a drop of 23,000 .uk domain registrations in April 2020 after rising by 10,000 each in February and March. For its part, AuDA said it has also seen a drop in the number of .au registrations, although there does not appear to be any evidence that this is related to the pandemic in any way. Haworth further stated that the company is looking for suspicious domains that could be used for fraudulent activity and is working with Britain's health product registration agency MHRA to ensure these domains are blocked at registration points. - the same. through registration