The Business Value of dotBrand: Twelve Real-World Success Stories

Twelve real-world dotBrand success stories show how organizations strengthen trust, improve security, simplify customer experiences, and create measurable business value. From AI-driven innovation to global digital ecosystems, dotBrand domains are becoming essential infrastructure worldwide today. more

What the i2Coalition Article Misses About DNS Abuse

Authors defend research showing malicious domain registrations occur at industrial scale, arguing that blocklist data is reliable and that policymakers must prioritize prevention alongside mitigation to curb cybercriminal exploitation of the domain name market globally. more

Continuity Is Not Legitimacy: Why Internet Institutions Need a Governance Stress Test

Internet institutions can remain operational while losing the legitimacy that sustains their authority. A proposed governance stress test distinguishes continuity from legitimacy, helping expose capture, substitution, and accountability failures before institutional crises become irreversible realities. more

When AI Answers, Who Decides What We Get to Know?

AI assistants are replacing search with synthesized answers, concentrating decisions about what information people see. As discovery narrows through a handful of platforms, preserving transparency, diversity, and accountable governance becomes increasingly urgent. more

What the Interisle Report Reveals, and What It Doesn’t, About DNS Abuse

Interisle's report illuminates malicious registration trends, but its broad blocklist methodology measures different questions than DNS Abuse, complicating conclusions about registry and registrar accountability by conflating reputation signals with actionable domain enforcement decisions for policymakers. more

How the AI Computing Paradigm Is Deconstructing Internet Governance

As AI giants build vertically integrated, compute-centric networks, they are bypassing DNS, reshaping routing, and concentrating infrastructure power, placing decades-old internet governance institutions under mounting pressure and raising the prospect of a fragmented, AI-driven Splinternet. more

Internet, Artificial Intelligence and the UN: How different is AI Governance from Internet Governance?

As the UN turns to AI governance, old lessons from internet governance loom large: multistakeholder rules matter, but sharper risks, geopolitical rivalry and machine autonomy make consensus harder and more urgent than before for all. more

Fixing Geofeed: From Self-Reported Data to Verified Trust

Geofeed data, long reliant on unverifiable self-assertions, faces mounting security risks. Integrating RPKI could transform it into a trusted, cryptographically validated infrastructure, strengthening routing integrity, regulatory compliance, and digital sovereignty across an increasingly contested internet. more

Domain Security Report: Unicorns Show Strong Adoption in Key Domain Security Measures

Unicorn firms lead in DNS-based security adoption, signaling technical maturity, while Global 2000 rely on enterprise registrars. Gaps in redundancy and brand protection expose supply chain risks as cyberattacks intensify across industries globally today. more

Iran-Linked Cyberattacks Expose Fragility of America’s Industrial Nerve System

Iran-linked hackers infiltrated US industrial control systems, disrupting energy and water infrastructure. The attacks highlight systemic vulnerabilities in internet-connected devices and signal an enduring cyber threat despite easing geopolitical tensions. more

Filling the Sky with Satellites

Low Earth orbit is crowding as Starlink, Amazon, China and others race to deploy thousands of satellites, promising faster broadband while intensifying global competition, orbital congestion concerns and a push for direct-to-device connectivity. more

Securing Digital Brand Borders in a Fragmented World

GlobalBlock's expansion into China and Germany signals a shift from reactive brand protection to centralized prevention, as firms seek scalable, cost efficient defences against proliferating AI driven domain abuse worldwide amid a fragmented digital landscape. more

From Guessing to Declaring: Why Geofeed is the Sovereign Foundation of Global Network Resilience

As IP addresses move across borders, outdated geolocation guesses cause service failures and regulatory risks. Geofeed and Signed Geofeed replace inference with verified declarations, promising accurate, resilient and sovereign foundations for global internet infrastructure governance. more

Reflecting on WSIS+20 and Youth’s Role in Redefining Stakeholder Classification

At ICANN85, reflection on WSIS+20 highlights a quieter milestone: youth successfully secured recognition as a distinct stakeholder group, reshaping how Internet governance defines participation and offering a blueprint for other overlooked communities seeking voice today. more

The Case Against Regulating AI in One Chart

A three-decade natural experiment suggests America's centralized regulatory review fostered far greater wealth creation than Europe's precautionary principle, raising stark questions about whether importing EU-style AI rules would undermine US innovation and prosperity. more