ICANN Friday announced that The Hague, Netherlands has been selected as the location for the ICANN74 Policy Forum, to be held from 13-16 June 2022 at the World Forum The Hague. It will be the second of ICANN‘s three Public Meetings each calendar year in different regions around the world. The Hague, Netherlands meeting will…
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ICANN’s Open Data Platform Now Live
ICANN Thursday announced the launch of the Open Data Platform. This effort is part of ICANN‘s Open Data Program (ODP) operationalized by the Office of the Chief Operations Officer. The goal of the Open Data Program is to provide the ICANN community with access to ICANN publicly available data. This first version of the new…
Facebook Wants Namecheap To Reveal Who’s Registering Infringing Domains
Last week Facebook announced it had filed a lawsuit in Arizona against domain name registrar Namecheap as well as its proxy service, Whoisguard, for registering domain names that aim to deceive people by pretending to be affiliated with Facebook apps. These domain names from Facebook’s perspective can trick people into believing they are legitimate and…
Cybercriminals Continuing To Exploit Coronavirus With Malicious Domains: Check Point
Since January 2020, based on an updated Check Point Threat Intelligence report, “there have been over 4,000 coronavirus-related domains registered globally. Out of these websites, 3% were found to be malicious and an additional 5% are suspicious. Coronavirus- related domains are 50% more likely to be malicious than other domains registered at the same period,…
Donuts Appoints Mina Neuberg As Chief Marketing Officer
Donuts Inc., the largest manager of new gTLDs by far with 238 new gTLDs, and the third largest by total domains with 4.3 million domains under management, has appointed Mina Neuberg as its Chief Marketing Officer, effective 24 February. In this role, Ms. Neuberg will be responsible for leading the marketing, creative, communications and outreach…