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Business Slow On The Uptake In Securin...
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 from SIDN, the manager for the Netherlands ccTLD .nl, who note that only 150 of the 5.8 million .nl domain names are secured with .nl Control, SIDN's n
Short-Lived Domains Play Major Part In...
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 attack to one that now includes mobile devices and social media. This evolution is leveraging the world's increasingly
ICANN Proposal for Future Root Zone KS...
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. This proposal has been drafted based on learnings from that process, along with informal feedback that has b
Leonard Kleinrock On The First Message...
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, tells the behind the scenes story of what happened leading up to that special day in the development of one of the greatest
Neustar Publishes Safer Domains DNS Se...
Neustar is one of the world's leading companies when it comes to domain names. Providers of security services that protects brands around the world, providing ads and providing backend registry services to over 220 top-level domains. So that they've got detailed knowledge on the scale and frequency of threats on domain names and DNS infrastructure, is no surprise.So this week they've published 'Safer Domains: Security and Resilience In The Domain Name In
ICANN Enters Final Negotiations On WHO...
It took the European Union 4 years of preparation and debate to develop the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and it was finally approved by the EU Parliament in April 2016, then came into being in May 2018. But it's taken ICANN to this week to get to the stage to enter final negotiations with its constituencies on the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP), a replacement to WHOIS, that was in effect rendered obsolete and not compliant when the GDPR ca