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…
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Defunct AlpNames Had History As A Home For Phishing
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…
Neustar Wins Awards For Marketing .CO To Australians
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…
InternetNZ’s Jordan Carter Talks Privacy: GDPR, DomainTools Court Case, .NZ Individual Registrants… And More
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…
Openprovider Founder/CEO Talks Best Thing About New gTLDs, Company Challenges, Why GDPR Is Good, But Execution Terrible And More
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…