Who Tells the Time? Measuring NTP Exposure Across Publicly Routed IPv4 Prefixes

A study of Dominican Republic networks identified NTP responders across 225 IPv4 prefixes and 73 autonomous systems, raising questions about unintended public exposure, synchronization dependencies and the availability of an official national time service.

Internet Society Seeks Nominations for 2027 Board of Trustees

The Internet Society is accepting nominations for four Board of Trustees seats in 2027, with selections by its Chapters, Organization Members and IETF. Nominations are open to nonmembers and close on December 11, 2026.

Beware the Bots: Rising AI Traffic Threatens to Reshape ISP Networks

Rapidly growing bot traffic is changing how Internet networks are designed, managed and billed. As AI-driven applications expand, smaller ISPs could face rising capacity demands, unpredictable traffic patterns and costly infrastructure upgrades.

Maintaining the ITU “Artificial Intelligence” Resolution

A US proposal would replace "artificial intelligence" with "super intelligence" in ITU Resolution 214, remove references to shared concerns and prohibit ITU work supporting AI governance, regulation and ethics.

Bangla Is on ICANN’s Script List. Where Are the Applicants?

ICANN's 2026 new gTLD round attracted no Bangla-script applications, despite supporting 27 scripts. Application data reveals limited South Asian participation and a sharp decline in internationalized domain applications compared with 2012.

DNSSEC in Ghana: 99% Can Validate, But .gh Remains Unsigned

Ghana reports approximately 99% DNSSEC validation capability among measured users, yet its .gh domain remains unsigned, exposing a gap between resolver readiness and domain security that calls for coordinated deployment and operational planning.

Global Internet Infrastructure at NANOG 98: Growth, Ownership, and Sovereignty

Growing demand for international bandwidth is accelerating investment in submarine cables and satellite networks, while increasing ownership concentration among major technology companies raises questions about competition, infrastructure resilience and national sovereignty.

Who Still Governs Africa’s Internet Resources?

Cloud Innovation's reappearance in AFRINIC's Mauritian membership register raises questions about governance, judicial oversight and institutional independence. The author calls for transparent records, scrutiny of conflicts of interest and an orderly end to receivership.

Quad9’s Planned Departure From France Shows Why Internet Infrastructure Policy Needs a Wider Lens

Quad9's planned withdrawal from France over DNS blocking orders highlights the tension between copyright enforcement and Internet security, raising questions about whether infrastructure-level restrictions impose consequences beyond their intended targets.

Vulnerability Windows and Exposure Costs: Modeling the Effects of Stale Trust

A Verisign Labs framework quantifies how compromised certificates remain trusted when revocation information is stale, using vulnerability windows and exposure costs to compare security risks and measure the benefits of faster certificate status updates.

Too Many Providers, More Moving Parts: The Challenge of SSL Certificate Fragmentation

Research into SSL certificates at Forbes Global 2000 companies reveals widespread provider fragmentation, raising operational concerns as certificate validity periods shorten to 100 days in March 2027.

The Phishing Domain You Missed Shares a Nameserver With the One You Caught

Nameserver-based searches can uncover related domains that conventional phishing monitoring misses. An investigation of shared DNS infrastructure reveals how registration patterns, nameserver pairs and timely zone data can help identify suspicious domain clusters.

CaribNOG SHIELD Aims to Build Caribbean Cybersecurity Capacity Through Local Training

CaribNOG's new SHIELD initiative aims to strengthen Caribbean Internet security through technical internships, routing security training and regional collaboration, with St Kitts and Nevis planning to introduce the programme in 2027.

Third-Level .name Registrations and Email Forwarding to Be Discontinued in 2027

Verisign plans to discontinue third-level .name registrations and email forwarding in February 2027, prompting objections from longtime users concerned about losing established addresses, disrupting online accounts and potential security risks.

Testing the Classifier: What a Blind Comparison Revealed About Domain Namespaces

A blind comparison of domain classification results found strong agreement for investor-pattern names but lower recall for operator-aligned names, raising questions about earlier namespace composition estimates and the limits of structural classification.