The Fundamental Knowledge Needed to Expand Your Business Online How easily can new customers find you online? Is your domain name an exact match to your company? How much time have you spent planning your domain name strategy? With 4.66 billion internet users and an increase in domain name registrations by more than 4% year […]
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Held virtually in July 2021, ICANN 71 featured policy-focused presentations and cross-organizational sessions. The policies discussed were particularly community oriented, with an emphasis on the improvement of communications and user experiences while focusing on maintaining and improving security measures. Find some of our key takeaways below: Legal vs. Natural Persons: EPDP Phase 2A Weighs in
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By Alexandra Zins Throughout the related sessions at the ICANN 64 Public Meeting in Kobe, Japan, it was clear that addressing domain abuse will be a priority for ICANN moving forward. Recent news of widespread Domain Name System (DNS) attacks underscored the urgent need for registries, registrars, cybersecurity professionals, and other ICANN stakeholders to work
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By Lauren Tracey Every consumer who buys goods or services online is potentially a target for cybercriminals in search of your personal information. This means that if you are a company conducting any business with customers online, it pays to make sure that your domain names are free and clear of phishing attacks. Otherwise, the
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By Emily Johns In October, ICANN and its community convened for their third and final public meeting of the year in Barcelona, Spain. The meeting, typically the largest of the year, had nearly 2,400 attendees and included the bi-annual High-Level Government Meeting, which itself included government representatives from 124 different countries. The meeting focused largely
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By Josh Bourne In its annual Cyber Monday report, FairWinds reviews the impact of typosquatting on 50 top internet retail brands and their audiences. The most notable insights that FairWinds uncovered in its 2018 analysis are that: Domain parking platforms that host malicious content and seek to distribute malware are much more prevalent Squatters are
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By Lauren Tracey When was the last time you typed out a full URL in hopes of navigating to a webpage? With the rise of autofill text and automatic search this process of carefully typing web addresses into browsers in order to reach a website, which is called direct navigation, has decreased. At FairWinds we
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By Emily Johns During the last week of June, the ICANN community convened in Panamá City, Panamá for the ICANN 62 Policy Forum. While a traditionally shorter and smaller meeting, this meeting focused on the work on surrounding the interpretation and implementation of ICANN’s Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data and the process for developing
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By Emily Johns On May 25th, the much-anticipated European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became fully enforceable. In the week before it did, and after months of community engagement across multiple stakeholder groups, the ICANN Board voted to approve its first-ever Temporary Specification in order to amend its established WHOIS policies to be compliant
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By Lauren Tracey ICANN published the Sunrise Period for Google’s latest new gTLD .APP, which opens for registrations beginning on March 29, 2018. .APP Background Google won the rights to operate the .APP registry in 2015 after bidding over 25 million dollars at a heated 2-day ICANN auction. To this day, it remains one of
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By Josh Bourne The Equifax cyber-attack of 2017 highlighted the vulnerability of corporate networks and consumer privacy in the new era of the Internet and cyber threats. In fact, 2017 saw more expansive and more high profile breaches than any other year to date. Consequently, corporates are urging more awareness and responsiveness to cyber threats
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By Lauren Tracey Every year the Super Bowl is not only an opportunity for fans to tune in and cheer for their favorite teams, but also for brands to reach millions of Americans with what they hope will be “stand out” ads. For many viewers, the advertisements are more enticing than the game itself. This
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