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Another Year Another WIPO Announcement...
Another year has passed since the last WIPO news release of claims of a record year of cybersquatting cases. Which is true in a way, but, as WIPO adds more TLDs most years for which it arbitrates cybersquatting disputes the number of domain names registered around the grows every year (up 3.7% in 2018 according to the latest CENTRstats). And even while cases were up, the number of domain names disputed has plummeted to 5,655 from 6,370.There were also d
DomainTools Webinar DNS Mapping for Be...
According to the FBI, U.S. businesses alone suffer from nearly $343k in damages every hour from phishing and this number has been rising year over year for the last five years. Join Ben April, Chief Technology Officer at Farsight and Corin Imai, Senior Security Advisor at DomainTools for this 30 minute webinar on a real-world DNS forensic investigation. Starting with a single IOC (indicator of compromise), they will step through how to pivot through domain inf
Defunct AlpNames Had History As A Home...
The now defunct AlpNames, who had its Registrar Accreditation Agreement terminated by ICANN this week after the discounted registrar appears to have disappeared, has a history of being a home to spammers and scammers.In a letter from the Independent Compliance Working Party to ICANN by a number of technology companies in February 2018 it was claimed there was a problem with one particular party': AlpNames. AlpNames it was claimed, among other problems, was r
Neustar Wins Awards For Marketing .CO ...
Neustar has won 2 awards for a marketing campaign they ran in Australia to promote .co at the Summit International Awards a Platinum' prize in Marketing Effectiveness and an Innovator' prize in the Emerging Media Award.In 2018 Neustar ran an integrated marketing campaign promoting .co domain names to the Australian market. It was the first time .co, the ccTLD for Colombia but now globally recognised including by Google's search as a gTLD in the same way as
InternetNZs Jordan Carter Talks Privac...
Privacy is a big thing, both in the .nz space and in the wider domain name world and has brought about both highlights and lowlights according to InternetNZ's Chief Executive Jordan Carter. In today's Domain Pulse Q&A Carter says a 2018 lowlight was ICANN's handling of their policy response to the EU's GDPR, which he believes, along with privacy for internet users, to be a good thing. In New Zealand they're been dealing with privacy in 2 ways: an Indi
Openprovider FounderCEO Talks Best Thi...
Growth and GDPR implementation along with the high costs of domain transfers among gTLDs due to ICANN policies were among the lowlights of 2018 for Openprovider's Founder and CEO Arno Vis, but there were significant highlights including being the largest domain registrar in the Netherlands in all major TLDs.Challenging was maintaining growth. And if ccTLD registries would change bulk transfer policies, Vis says 'the market could change rapidly and become