The volume of unwanted Internet traffic is enormous.
We have been measuring it since 2019 through a network of geographically dispersed traps called honeypots, under our AIDE project. We now see over one million hits per day, and we know that’s just a fraction of the overall issue.

There is willingness for mutually agreed change.
Infrastructure operators are open to collaboration, as evidenced by the Domain Trust Community’s enthusiasm to identify a baseline framework for action against domain abuse. But that collaboration must happen on their terms.

The work is far from done.
Routing is fundamental to how data moves on the Internet, but it is vulnerable to malicious attacks and human mistakes. Through MANRS, we have seen a clear correlation between participant growth and a declining number of incidents. Still, we need much more industry participation to have a lasting effect on the issue. We need to keep growing.

Reduced risk: our work leads to a less eventful Internet

Upscaled markets: a place where trust and reputation can produce added value

Increased, collective impact: achieving economies of scale through coordinated action

Industrial depth: we help industry leaders and fast-movers take change to ‘everybody else,’ benefiting the entire ecosystem

Lower regulatory pressure: we see self-regulation as the carrot to avoid the regulatory stick

Domain Trust uses the power of data sharing, community building, and mutual agreement to reduce the number and impact of malicious domains. Its data-sharing platform includes 32M+ domains (and growing!), and is working toward identifying industry-validated mechanisms for change.