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Thumbing through the DNS Trail of the TAOTH Campaign

A cyber campaign targeting East Asian elites leveraged fake web services. DNS forensics uncovered suspicious domains, IP links, and signs of future infrastructure repurposing. more

Radix’s .Tech Domains Partners with Code.org to Bridge Widening Gender, Race Gap in Computer Science

.Tech Domains, the leading new domain extension for the tech ecosystem, recently announced that it is collaborating with Code.org, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools. more

Afilias to Acquire .GLOBAL Top Level Domain

Afilias, the world's second largest domain name registry, today announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Dot Global Domain Registry Limited in Dublin, the registry operator for the .GLOBAL Top Level Domain. more

RIPE NCC IPv4 Waiting List - Two Years

The RIPE NCC expects to make about 300 /24 allocations in the next six months. About 1,000 members are waiting for allocations and the member at the top of the queue has been waiting over a year. more

Attaxion Becomes the First EASM Platform to Integrate ENISA’s EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

Attaxion, the external attack surface management (EASM) vendor with industry-leading asset coverage, announces the integration of the European Vulnerability Database (EUVD) into its platform. more

Five Years of Domain Security Insights: CSC’s Latest Findings on Global 2000 Companies

This year marks the fifth annual release of CSC's "Domain Security Report," which continues to shed light on the evolving landscape of domain security among Global 2000 companies. more

The Benefits and Risks of Leasing IPv4 Space

With address prices rising, the reasons you may want to become a lessor are clear: extended predictable revenue. Leasing creates an opportunity to monetize IP addresses and sell an IP block for a higher price in the future versus in the current market -- it allows the lessor to keep the IPv4 block in case of future need. more

BRG to Share .Brand TLD Updates and Insights for Applicants at ICANN81 in Istanbul

The Brand Registry Group (BRG) is the global association of companies and organizations working together to champion the use of .brand top-level domains and includes some of the world's most recognized consumer and B2B brands. In advance of the ICANN81 meeting in Istanbul Türkiye next week, the BRG is providing an update on ICANN's new gTLD program in several sessions that may be of interest to prospective .brand applicants. more

Do IP Geolocation Data Improve User Access Management (UAM)?

Some organizations have specific policies that limit employee access to information. However, not all have sophisticated security solutions in place to protect against unauthorized access, especially amid cyber attacks that occur left and right. more

DNS Spotlight: The Silver Fox in the Henhouse

Silver Fox, a Chinese state-backed hacking group, disguised its espionage campaign as Russian activity using Cyrillic-laced lures and DNS infrastructure, deploying ValleyRAT to steal intelligence and finance operations through Microsoft Teams abuse. more

IPv4.Global Achieves ARIN Qualified Facilitator Status

The recently launched Qualified Facilitator Program was developed so buyers and sellers of IPv4 addresses can easily and confidently identify qualified brokers to help them navigate the complex IPv4 address transfer process. more

On Your Marks ... Olympic-Related Domain Trends

With the Olympics underway in Tokyo, CSC has taken the opportunity to analyze domain name registrations that include Olympic-related terms. The following three data sets show that cybersquatters are using the domain name channel to perpetrate fraudulent activity against worldwide brands. more

.club and Neustar – Partnering for Success

Following a recent contract renewal, Neustar and .CLUB Domains are happy to announce a four-year extension of our longstanding, successful partnership. This means Neustar will remain the exclusive Registry Service Provider for the .CLUB TLD until at least 2023. more

RIPE NCC Asks Members to Vote on Transfer Fee

The RIPE NCC will ask its members to choose a new charging model in late May 2023. This selected model will be used for 2024. more

Burrowing Into the Beamglea Campaign DNS Infrastructure

A threat campaign known as Beamglea exploited npm packages to target over 135 companies globally. Researchers uncovered 175 malicious packages, 344 related domains, and dozens of IP-linked artifacts through DNS and WHOIS analysis. more