There were 339.8 million registered domains at the end of the second quarter, with approximately 7.9 million new domains registered in the last year. The goal of advanced DNS analytics is to transform this data into actionable threat intelligence, which enables security teams to block domain names, detect infected devices, identify insider threats and assess an organizations overall security hygiene. DNS-based attacks cannot be detected by a single DNS lookup, but require advanced analytics of the context, including the history of lookups, contents of the response and correlation.”]