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Verisign & Forrester Webinar: Defending Against Cyber Threats in Complex Hybrid-Cloud Environments

Attend to learn some of the new tools and techniques to secure availability of applications in hybrid-cloud environments. more

LogicBoxes Announces Pioneer Registrar Program

Program meant exclusively for ICANN Accredited Registrars offers domain automation outsourcing and access to a suite of innovative Registrar tools & services along with strategic investment opportunities. more

We’re Moving Forward. You Coming?

Today, when people ask me how my role leading the Registry team at Neustar compares to my military days, it's actually not difficult to draw a few parallels. The haircuts are different and the 'uniforms' are not as uniform but at the end of the day, people are people. And working with people to achieve a mission is the same no matter what field you are in. more

Introducing Verisign Public DNS: A Free Recursive DNS Service That Respects Your Privacy

If you are one of the 55 percent of individuals who are anxious about openly handing over your private information, what can you do? The first step is to determine your digital footprint. more

Faster DDoS Mitigation - Introducing Verisign OpenHybrid Customer Activated Mitigation

In the recently published Forrester WAVE: DDoS Service Providers, Q3 2015 report, Forrester notes the importance of a hybrid approach to distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection. more

Internet Grows to 296 Million Domain Names in Q2 2015

We have released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which showed that the Internet grew by two million domain names in the second quarter of 2015, and closed with a base of 296 million domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs). more

New Feature in PowerMTA v4.5: IP Based Rate Limiting

One feature in PowerMTA's GA release of v4.5 is IP based Rate Limiting. The "source-ip-max-msg-rate" is specifically designed to give delivery engineers/admins additional control. more

.Online Becomes the Fastest TLD to Sell 50,000 Domains

Post a record breaking launch, .online is still going strong 7 days into launch. After registering 28,000 domains in the first 30 minutes, .online seems to have broken one more record -- the fastest to sell 50,000 domains. more

Verisign’s Q2’15 DDoS Trends: DDoS for Bitcoin Increasingly Targets Financial Industry

Verisign just released its Q2 2015 DDoS Trends Report, which provides a unique view into online distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack trends from mitigations enacted on behalf of, and in cooperation with, customers of Verisign DDoS Protection Services and research conducted by Verisign iDefense Security Intelligence Services. more

.ONLINE GA Launches with 28,000 Registrations in the First 30 Minutes

Radix's much awaited and probably its biggest TLD, .online entered General Availability earlier today. .online has smashed .club's launch record by registering 28,000+ domains in the first 30 minutes itself. more