Industry

.PW Announces the Launch of Its Sunrise Phase

.PW Registry ('the Professional Web') opens up today with a 68-day long sunrise program. The sunrise offers some unique features aimed at reducing overhead for brand-owners. Most known brand management Registrars like MarkMonitor, IP Mirror, ComLaude, CSC, Safenames and 101Domain will be accepting .PW sunrise registrations starting today. more

Internet Grows to More Than 225 Million Domain Names in the Fourth Quarter of 2011

Nearly six million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2011, bringing the total number of registered domain names to more than 225 million worldwide across all domains, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief, published by VeriSign, Inc. more

NeuStar Integrates Leading DHCP with its Managed Internal DNS Service

NeuStar announced today that it has completed the integration of the MetaInfo Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) with its Managed Internal Domain Name Systems (DNS) service. This follows NeuStar's acquisition of the assets of MetaInfo in January of this year. more

Verisign Announces .コム Domain Names Are Now Available for Anyone to Register

Verisign is excited to announce the General Registration Period for .コム -- the .com you know, now in Japanese -- during which anyone can register .コム domain names on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to availability and the applicable registry policies. The General Registration Period for コム began at 00:00:00 UTC on June 13, 2016, following the Landrush Program Period.* more

Tips to Protect eCommerce Website Availability and Security During the Holidays

With the holiday shopping season quickly approaching, Internet retailers are gearing up for an onslaught of Web traffic - which is great, as long as they have the right measures in place to keep their customers safe and satisfied. Even one hour of downtime due to a website outage or a malicious attack can have significant impact on a retailer's reputation and revenue, especially during the holidays, a time which the National Retail Federation says can add up to 40 percent of an online retailer's annual revenue. more

A Brief OSINT Analysis of Charming Kitten IoCs

Charming Kitten is a cybercriminal group believed to be of Iranian origin, which was first seen in 2014, but had been active for years after the initial detection. The group use an intricate web of methods such as spear phishing and impersonation. more

Verisign Chosen to Operate .net Registry Through June 30, 2017

VeriSign, Inc., the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, today announced that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Verisign have renewed Verisign's contract to serve as the authoritative registry operator for the .net registry for another six years. more

NeuStar Wins Contract to Deliver Mobile Instant Messaging to Tele2

NeuStar, Inc. today announced that Tele2, one of Europe's leading "alternative telecommunications" operators, has selected NeuStar's Next Generation Messaging (NGM) services to roll out mobile Instant Messaging services across Tele2's mobile phone networks. more

Afilias Improves Security for .IN Domain With DNSSEC

Afilias today announced that it has enabled Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for the .IN country code top-level domain (TLD) for the country of India, improving global security for this domain which houses over 700,000 .IN domains. more

UltraDNS Named 2006 Codie Award Finalist

UltraDNS today announced its revolutionary DNS Shield has been selected by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) as a finalist for the 21st Annual Codie Awards in the "Best Enterprise Security Solution" category. more

Neustar Announces DNSSEC for .US and .BIZ

Neustar, Inc. announced today that its registry team has completed deployment of DNSSEC in the .US zone and is ready to accept Delegation Signer (DS) records. The .BIZ zone will follow quickly, accepting records as early as August 1, 2010, making it the second gTLD to be fully DNSSEC-enabled. more

DDoS Attacks: Top Trends and Truths (Webinar)

Join Neustar's DDoS experts, including Product Manager, Miguel Ramos, and SecurityWeek, a leading publication serving IT security professionals around the globe, for a revealing discussion on how DDoS attacks are evolving and what to look for in 2012 on Thursday, March 22nd at 1pm ET/10am PT. more

Verisign Releases Q2 2016 DDoS Trends Report - Layer 7 DDoS Attacks a Growing Trend

Verisign today released its Q2 2016 DDoS Trends Report providing a unique view into online distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack trends from mitigations enacted on behalf of customers of Verisign DDoS Protection Services, and research conducted by Verisign iDefense Security Intelligence Services. more

Radix’s .ONLINE Fastest to Sell 100,000 Domains

After a very successful launch (38,000 domains in the first 24 hours) and breaking all nTLDrecords, .online surpassed 100,000 domain registrations this morning. Radix shared the 100,000th domain to be registered -- myfamilyroots.online that came through eNom. more

New Zloader Campaign: Where Do IoCs Lead Us?

Zloader, a banking malware that steals sensitive user data, is back with a more sophisticated infection chain. It evades detection while exploiting Microsoft's digital signature verification method. more