USING PASSIVE DNS TO CLASSIFY DOMAINS INTO FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES
Christopher Atala · WakeSpace Scholarship (Wake Forest University) · 2026
The rapid and unending expansion of the Internet continues to lead to the creation of millions of domains that serve a wide range of purposes. Accurately classifying domains by their function is essential for cybersecurity applications such as content filtering, compliance enforcement, and network monitoring. However, existing classification methods often rely on manual labeling, proprietary datasets, or real-time observations that are difficult to scale and lack reproducibility.