.garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood

Last Updated: 2026-06-29T19:00:03Z (UTC) What’s Happening About a month ago, Dave Piscitello from Interisle was looking for information on why the .garden TLD seemed so unfriendly. Accidentally fell off my radar, but I started looking this morning. TLD(R) is: a voluminous increase in registrations for .garden this year, and AliDNS correlates with much higher risk scores, as nearly half the 2026 dataset. In particular, AliDNS nameservers and Dominet registration accounted for an average risk sc...