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Neustar Announces Domain Registry Service Offering for Registrars

Neustar, Inc. announces a service offering that will enable domain name registrars to enter the registry market. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) made an announcement yesterday that registrars would be permitted to apply for new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) in May of 2011. 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

Neustar and Valideus Join Forces to Provide Brand Owners with High-Quality Domain Registry Solutions

Neustar Inc., a leading provider of Internet registry services, and Valideus, a consultancy group providing dedicated management services for the new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), today announced a strategic partnership to provide Valideus' European and worldwide brand owners with all of the services required to register their own company or brand names as a gTLD. more

Afilias and .JO Registry Bring Native Language E-mail to Arabic Internet Users

Afilias and the National Information Technology Center of Jordan announced that they have partnered to produce the first public demonstration of an e-mail message between two completely internationalized (or IDN) e-mail addresses in the Arabic language, using Afilias' new IDN e-mail technology and a fully IDN domain name and IDN TLD from the .JO registry. more

BlueCat Networks Expands in China

BlueCat Networks, the IPAM Intelligence company, today announced it is investing multi-million USD in Asia Pacific (APAC) as part of its continued aggressive expansion in the region. more

Iron Mountain and AusRegistry International Create Program to Support New gTLD Registry Applicants

Iron Mountain Incorporated, the information management company, and AusRegistry International, a leading provider of global Domain Name Registry Services, today announced a co-referral program to benefit applicants for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). more

SHPS Deploys BlueCat Networks DDI Solution to Simplify, Secure Distributed Health Management Network

BlueCat Networks, the IPAM Intelligence company, today announced that SHPS, a leading provider of health improvement and health benefits services, has replaced its home-grown DNS system with two Proteus IP Address Management (IPAM) solutions, two Adonis 1000 solutions and two Adonis 750 solutions to simplify network management and increase network reliability. more

Who’s Hitting Your Server? .ORG Provides Insights With ‘Practice Safe DNS’ Campaign

With the goal of promoting security and curbing growing abuse of the Domain Name Systems (DNS), .ORG, The Public Interest Registry is launching the "Practice Safe DNS" campaign - a new initiative that will serve as a key resource for domain holders, registrars, web developers and IT professionals to learn how they can respectively play a increasingly relevant role in providing a safer and more secure Internet. more

BlueCat Networks Releases Most Complete IPv6 Address Management Platform

BlueCat Networks, the IPAM Intelligence™ company, today launches Proteus IPAM v3.5, the most complete end-to-end IP Address Management (IPAM) solution for both IPv4 and IPv6 networks. more

Afilias Increases DNS Security in Latin America and the Caribbean with Deployment of DNSSEC

Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has enabled Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for five country code Top-Level-Domains (ccTLDs) in Latin America and the Caribbean region. more

.ORG Kicks-Off the “Why I Chose” Campaign to Educate Marketers About Value of Domain Names

What's in a name? With nearly 200 million registered domain names worldwide, an increasing number of organizations, companies and individuals are fine-tuning their online marketing campaigns and selecting domain names that will enhance brand value. more

PIR Becomes The First gTLD Registry to Offer an Automated Registrar Accreditation System (ARAS)

The goal of ARAS is to reduce the time and effort involved for ICANN accredited registrars to sell .ORG domains, by enabling all the steps to be done very quickly and safely in a secure online environment. more