All websites that use a .za domain name are required to link back to the South African government’s Coronavirus information page, according to a regulation published in the Government Gazette on 26 March. According to clause 5.1.4, “all internet sites operating within a .zaDNA top level domain name must have a landing page with a…
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ICANN Chair Discusses The Next Generation and Internet Governance and Future of the DNS: Domain Pulse 2020
ICANN Chair Maarten Botterman with fellow panellists Wolfgang Kleinwächter and Roberto Gaetano on the “Internet Governance Next Generation” panel discussion, looking towards fellow “next generation” panellists at Domain Pulse 2020 in Innsbruck. Young people are the future. And the next generation was the feature of the first morning of the Domain Pulse conference in Innsbruck,…
DDoS Attacks Increase 180% in 2019: Neustar
Neustar‘s Security Operations Center (SOC) saw a 168% increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in Q4 2019, compared with Q4 2018, and a 180% increase overall year-on-year. According to their latest cyber threats and trends report, Neustar saw DDoS attacks across all size categories increase in 2019, with attacks sized 5 Gbps and below seeing…
Nominet Identifies Around 500 Potentially Malicious .UK Domains Related To Covid-19
Nominet has suspended over 180 .uk domain names related to the current Covid-19/Coronavirus pandemic with a blend of manual and automated checking processes that has helped the .uk registry to identify, at the point of registration, which new domains are likely to be used for phishing. When a domain is identified as suspicious – based…
NIC Chile Responds To Coronavirus Giving Registrants More Time
With COVID-19 (coronavirus) wreaking havoc around the world, NIC Chile has given registrants of .cl domain names some respite in case they’re not able to pay for their domain name renewal in time before they would normally be deleted for non-payment. NIC Chile announced they will delay deactivation and subsequent cancellation of domain names that…