Donuts, with 238 new gTLDs and 3.629 million registrations according to nTLDstats, the largest of any registry by far, has added another gTLD to its portfolio, but this time it’s the legacy gTLD: .travel. Donuts acquired the .travel generic top level domain from registry operator Tralliance Registry Management Company, who was delegated the gTLD in…
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EURid Suspends Almost 26,000 Domains With Ties To Identity Fraud
EURid, the .eu and .ею registry, suspended 25,756 domain names with ties to identity fraud om 29 January. It was more than 5,600 above the 2017 figure of 20,126, of which 2,872 related to EURid’s ongoing collaboration with law enforcement. The crackdown on domain names is part of EURid’s focus on the safety of online…
auDA Goes Gung-Ho With Threats Some Registrants Could Lose Their Domain Names
auDA, the .au policy and regulatory body, has decided to clamp down on a seemingly innocuous practice, that is of the occasional domain name registrant registering domain names with strings that are included on a Reserve List defined under Australian law. The Reserve List is not just restricted to specific words or abbreviations, but also…
DomainTools Webinar: How DomainTools & MISP Enable an Effective Threat Intelligence Program
The Malware Information Sharing Platform, or MISP, is an open-source threat intelligence platform deployed across major organizations to consume, catalogue, and share IOCs (indicators of compromise). In this session, we’ll hear from Beth Young, a Network Security Engineer at Jack Henry & Associates, about their MISP deployment and how it fits in their broader security…
Crypto Keywords Dominated Verisign’s Trending Keywords One Month, Disappear the Next
New medical-related technologies appear to have had the biggest impact on Verisign’s top 10 trending keywords in English for their .com and .net top level domains in the month of January. The keywords, which can appear anywhere in the .com and .net domain names, appear to have some relation to medical technology with “cell”, “dispensary”,…