After intervention from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Harvard University Cyberlaw Clinic, it’s now possible to register .us domain names with the “seven dirty words”. The change of course in policy by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), part of the Department of Commerce, and Neustar, the .us registry, came about following the…
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Has GDPR Contributed To Spam Decline? 2 Organisations Say It’s Too Early To Tell
Recently threat intelligence organisation Recorded Future published a blog post suggesting “spammers are not — at least at this time — rushing to launch new campaigns because of GDPR-enforced WHOIS privacy rules.” The General Data Protection Regulation that came into force on 25 May, seeks to give individuals more control over their personal data and…
Canon Moves Email Addresses To Their .CANON domain
Canon Inc. recently announced that as of 20 August, their company email addresses that until now have ended with @canon.co.jp will now make use of their .canon new gTLD and end with @mail.canon. In February 2015, Canon Inc. attained the usage rights to the .canon new generic top level domain and, in May 2016, Canon…
DomainTools: Lack of Whois Data ‘Severely Impairs’ Democracy
Whois data is “more important than ever before” as malicious actors seek to undermine democracy, according to a post on the DomainTools blog. “2018 has been a tough year to be a domain name Whois record. For years Whois has been a favorite and uniquely effective tool of security researchers and law enforcement to battle…
Africa Registry Launches World’s Leading Gateway Solution for Domain Names in Africa
Africa Registry, part of the CentralNic Group, is a leading provider of domain names for Africa since 2005, is delighted to announce a new programme from its gateway service RRPproxy to empower domain name vendors, registrars and resellers in Africa to sell domains using over 1,000 TLDs, and to benefit from a $50 free credit…