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Understanding ICANN’s New Domain Abuse Reporting (DAAR)

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 ...
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Gone Spear Phishing!

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 ...
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ICANN 63 Convenes in Barcelona & Focus Shifts to Next Round of New gTLDs

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 ...
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Cyber Monday 2018: Analyzing the DNS to Uncover Threats to Businesses and Consumers

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 ...
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How Cybersquatters Capitalize on Typos and How to Protect Your Brand

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 ...
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ICANN 62 Convenes in Panamá City, Panamá

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 ...
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Protecting Your Brand in a Post-GDPR World

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 ...
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Google’s Latest New gTLD: Welcome .APP

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 ...
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Cyber Threats on the Rise: Protect Your Brand

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 ...
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Campaign-Specific Domain Names Stand out at This Year’s Super Bowl

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 ...
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New gTLDs in 2018: A Look at the Data

By Taylor Frank The New gTLD topic has proven to be fairly complex one. To date, it has been very difficult to get an accurate read on the ...
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Milestone Reached: 300 UDRP Victories

By Josh Bourne FairWinds Partners recently marked our 300th successful Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) outcome, bringing our overall success rate to 99.75%. FairWinds has a long history ...
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