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[ad_1] Blockchain domains serve several purposes. Besides being smart contract suites, these domains can function as name records for crypto wallet addresses. Unfortunately, people don’t choose which domains they want every time, as most of them already exist or are owned by large companies. It’s here that Hand shake, a decentralized DNS server, stepped in …

[ad_1] [co-author: Sean Kelly] DNS Belgium, the registry operating the national top level domain (ccTLD) .BE, recently published an article warning domain name owners of the risks inherent in the practice of “snapâ€. While anyone can legitimately recover an expired domain name, problems can arise when cybercriminals grab expired domain names and then use them …

[ad_1] The domain name structure and ICANN rules hamper .brand domains. Earlier this week, ICANN issued a notice from Honeywell stating that it wishes to terminate its .honeywell domain name. These domains, with a mark after the period, are commonly referred to as .brand top-level domain names. They have been integrated into the existing framework …

[ad_1] DENIC (the .DE registry and top-level domain name extension for Germany) recently announced that it has passed the 17 million registered domain name mark. As one of the most successful ccTLDs (Country Code Top Level Domain Names), DENIC’s press release provides some additional interesting statistics. For example, there are now 30,000 new registrations on …

[ad_1] The pandemic has accelerated the company’s reliance on online services, and businesses are relying on their domain names more than ever to provide a secure destination for their customers. This massive transition to the web has resulted in a marked increase in online fraud. One of the types of fraud perpetrated online is domain …

[ad_1] The administration of the .au domain (auDA) announced new auDA rules that will change the eligibility, assignment, and registration and renewal requirements for the .au domain. These will come into effect on April 12, 2021 and can be accessed here. The auDA administers and develops the rules for domain names in the country code …

[ad_1] Some domains are too big to fail. Apart from the obvious ones like google.com and facebook.com, upon which the availability of our daily lives depends, there are many others upon which the internet infrastructure (and much of the modern world itself depends). same). These are domains like w3.org and ietf.org, which host the technical …

[ad_1] All domain names identical or similar to registered trademarks do not give rise to action. Exhibit 1 are plaintiffs whose trademarks are subsequent to the registration of the domain name. The latest example is Insight Energy Ventures LLC v. Alois Muehlberger, LMBerger Co. Ltd., D2016-2010 (WIPO December 12, 2016) (), but there are other …

[ad_1] The Internet Commerce Association has been an active participant for the past four years in ICANN’s Uniform Rapid Suspension Policy (URS) and Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution (UDRP) Working Group. The working group is currently completing its review of the URS. The UDRP principles will be reviewed in a second phase to come. The …

[ad_1] Bad players have stepped up their purchase of domains that look like the brands of the world’s top 2,000 companies, with 60% of those domains registered to risky third parties, not the companies themselves. A new study released this week by domain name management corporation Corporation Service Company (CSC) analyzed domain records from Forbes …

[ad_1] Now that ICANN has approved a potentially significant expansion in the number of generic top-level domains, there is considerable interest and confusion as to how these names can be used. For example, if someone registers “dot BRAND”, can they advertise http: // brand / and make it work? No! No! Or at least, most …

NIC Senegal, the registry responsible for administering Senegalese domain names, has decided that disputes relating to .SN domain names will be governed by the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). To this end, the Registry has appointed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center as its dispute resolution service provider (wipo.int). …

[ad_1] A crypto-based domain name auction service launched earlier this year is finally gaining traction and attracting big investors willing to pay top dollar for domain names. The Ethereum name service was launched on May 4, 2017; it featured an automatic registration service that allowed people to register a domain name ending in .eth quickly …

[ad_1] Amazon has registered a bunch of domains under new TLDs and forwards them to the pages of its website. It’s still unclear what Amazon.com’s strategy is for the many top-level domain names it will soon control. But we might get a clue by looking at its use of top-level domain names from other registries. …

Cloudy will disrupt the domain name registration market with its new initiative. The content delivery network (CDN) provider launched Cloudflare Registrar with the promise of providing domain names at wholesale prices, which is true for the first year as well as every year after. The reason for launching Cloudflare Registrar is quite simple. Domain name …

introduction 1. Solutions to combat cybersquatting/typosquatting 2. Specialized TLDs 3. Geographic TLDs 4. TLD under the brand 5. Hyphen: with or without? Conclusion introduction From the outset, it should be remembered that the number of top-level domains available does not allow the development of a complete portfolio of domain names. Moreover, this situation is exacerbated …

[ad_1] As an attack vector, phishing has several underlying purposes, such as the spread of malware, theft of sensitive information, and victim fraud. However, it appears that most phishing emails could be used to obtain user credentials according to Cofense’s 2021 Annual State of Phishing Report. After analyzing millions of emails, Cofense found that 57% …