Cont.Domains'n'hosting outfit Namecheap harboured more than a quarter of all known phishing sites that falsely posed as UK government web presences during 2020, according to the National Cyber Security Centre today.
This stat can be found in the centre's fourth annual Active Cyber Defence report, which boasts how much digital filth it cleansed from the internet. These included 700,000 scam sites stretching across 1.4 million URLs, or so the NCSC tells us.
Seems their slowness in responding increased their attractiveness as a hosting target. Something to bear in mind with any cheap domain/web/email hosting packages - reputational damage to your domain/business through association with spammy/scammy hosts and their associated grey/blocklisted IP addresses.