Neustar and Verisign have announced that Neustar will be acquiring Verisign’s Security Services customer contracts. The acquisition consists of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection, Managed DNS, DNS Firewall and fee-based Recursive DNS services customer contracts. This acquisition will strategically grow Neustar’s leading Digital Defense and Performance solutions by expanding its enterprise customer footprint in…
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Marby Appoints Swinehart and Jeffrey As ICANN Deputies While NTIA Takes Swipe At Atallah’s Donuts Hiring
Göran Marby, ICANN’s President & CEO has appointed 2 deputies following the recent resignation of Akram Atallah. The new deputies are both long term ICANN staffers – John Jeffrey, General Counsel and Secretary, and Theresa Swinehart, Senior Vice President, Multistakeholder Strategy and Strategic Initiatives. In a post on the ICANN blog, Marby writes “each member…
DENIC Hives Off Non-Core Activities to New Subsidiary
From 1 November DENIC is hiving off its non-core activities, including DNS Anycast Services, Data Escrow Services and Direct Services Newly Grouped, to a newly formed subsidiary called DENIC Services GmbH & Co. KG that will be located in Darmstadt, about 30km south of Frankfurt where Denic eG is located. The fully owned subsidiary of…
Hurricane Florence Makes Its Mark In September .COM and .NET Keywords
Verisign have released their latest list of top trending keywords in English for .com and .net registrations for the month of September. “Florence” made it to both the .com and .net lists following Hurricane Florence that brought catastrophic flooding to the Carolinas in the eastern United States in September. With more than 300 million domain…
NTIA Semi-Annual Report to US Congress Includes Efforts on GDPR Compliance
The NTIA, which is now obligated by law to provide a semi-annual report to Congress on ICANN policies and whether or not the NTIA supported these changes, has provided its first report for the 6 months to the end of September. The report focusses on efforts to deal with the EU’s GDPR. The European Union’s…