Public Interest Registry and the Internet Society announced Wednesday that they had agreed for PIR, the .org registry, to be taken over by Ethos Capital, an investment firm, based in the United States. .ORG was established in 2002 when the Internet Society won a competitive bidding process for the .ORG registry and established PIR to…
Category: Domain News
Business Slow On The Uptake In Securing Their Domain Names With Registry Locks
The option of reducing the risk of domain names being hijacked by cybercriminals by signing up to a Registry Lock has been available through many top-level domains for several years now, but the uptake among brands, to which they are mostly aimed, has been very slow. This is the subject of a recent blog post…
Short-Lived Domains Play Major Part In Phishing Campaigns: Akamai
The latest Akamai State of the Internet report focuses on phishing and includes how short-lived domain names play their part. Phishing is a huge cost to brands large and small, and even individuals. Ever escalating defences against phishing are being met with ever escalating efforts by criminals with phishing having “evolved from being an email-based…
ICANN: Proposal for Future Root Zone KSK Rollovers
Brief Overview Purpose: We are seeking feedback on our proposal for how future Root Zone Key Signing Key (KSK) changes are made. In particular, we plan to create a predictable approach by establishing a standard KSK rollover interval. Current Status: The first Root Zone KSK rollover was recently concluded and widely viewed as a success.…
Leonard Kleinrock On The First Message 50 Years Ago
Three months after the first human set foot on the moon 50 years ago the first simple message between two computers was sent. And it set the foundations to everything that deals with electronic communications, including the domain name system. In a post on the ICANN blog, Leonard Kleinrock, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, UCLA,…