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InterMed Breach: How Threat Intelligence Sources Help Maintain Domain Integrity

Major healthcare providers suffer a lot from breaches, both from a legal and financial standpoint. Aside from patient lawsuits, they also face severe penalties imposed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). more

GoDaddy Registry Podcast Ep.7 – The Importance of a Brand to Help Build Trust With Your Audience

The GoDaddy Registry Podcast offers regular insights into a variety of topics important to brands and organizations involved in the domain name industry. Episode 7 is now available and continues our deep dive conversations with industry experts from around the world. more

BlueCat Networks Raises $16.8 Million from Leading Silicon Valley Venture Firm Trident Capital

With this investment, the company will continue to develop, sell and support the market's most-innovative IP Address Management, DNS and DHCP solutions. BlueCat Networks will use the funding primarily to support the expansion of its Sales and Engineering teams and the further development of its global channel partner program. more

Radix’s #FempowerOnline Campaign For .Online Domains Inspires Aspiring Women Entrepreneurs to Take Their Ideas Online

Radix's .Online Domains recently announced the closure of their Instagram-led contest, #FempowerOnline. Launched on March 8th, the social media contest leveraged International Women's Day and invited aspiring women entrepreneurs to share business ideas for women-centric domain names on .Online. more

Afilias Joins Internet Infrastructure Coalition

The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition), a group of global Internet infrastructure providers and technology firms who support the growth of the Internet, introduced Afilias as its newest member. A global leader in advanced registry services, Afilias will be the first registry to join i2Coalition. more

BlueCat Networks’ IPAM Solution Extends Microsoft Windows DNS and DHCP Infrastructure

The new solution is the only leading IPAM solution available as a virtual appliance on the Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization and cloud platform. It is also available as a virtual appliance on VMware or as a hardened physical appliance. more

Neustar and usTLD Stakeholder Council to Hold .US Town Hall Live Webcast

The Town Hall will provide an opportunity for the community to hear from the .US team on the 2018 developments and for community discussions on how to build and grow the .US domain to meet the demands of the future. more

Reactivation Campaign: Shared vs. Dedicated IPs

Within the digital messaging industry, an opportunity will sometimes arise for an email marketing manager to send a re-activation campaign to dormant email addresses, in order to galvanize subscribers who don't respond to your messaging. more

ARI Registry Services Drives New TLD Applicants to Activate Launch Strategy

The new Top-Level Domain (TLD) program entered the critical delegation phase today as the first batch of what will eventually be around 1400 strings were added to the root servers of the Internet and applicants began executing their launch strategies. more

i2Coalition and DNA Merger Creates North America’s Largest Internet Infrastructure Advocacy Group

The combined association, which will operate under the name i2Coalition and maintain the i2Coalition's existing organizational and management structure, will be the largest Internet infrastructure advocacy group in North America. more

.ORG Inserts DNSSEC Key Into The Root Zone

.ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) announced it has inserted its Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) key into the Internet root zone, joining the top of the Internet's "chain of trust." more

Majority of World’s Largest Companies Susceptible to Phishing and Brand Abuse Due to Improper Domain Security

We have recently released our annual Domain Security Report: Forbes Global 2000 Companies, which found that despite the shift to modernize business environments and operations among the Global 2000 companies, web domains remain dangerously under-protected. more

New Domain Extension .US.ORG Debuts with Six Year Complimentary Registration Offer to Trademark Hold

"The mission of .US.ORG is to embody higher standards of social responsibility and ethical behavior. CentralNic has elected to introduce protections and benefits for trademark holders that far exceed the measures currently proposed by ICANN for new top-level domains, and practiced by other domains and registries," said Ben Crawford, CEO of CentralNic. more

Phishing Automated through Chatbots, We Found Potentially Connected Domains

Threat actors have found a way to make phishing websites appear more legitimate by employing chatbots. The newly discovered tactic starts with an email about a delivery from DHL. more

Using .ORG Directory to Find Haiti Relief Organizations

For those of you looking to donate to or find information on a particular charity or organization, we urge you to visit our .ORG community website directory and enter "Haiti earthquake" into the search box. more