3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (299+ words) CircleID ICANN has published a new set of guidelines for advancing Universal Acceptance, shifting its decade-long effort to make all valid domain names and email addresses work across Internet applications toward more systematic implementation and measurement. The September 9 publication follows…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (366+ words) Your organization may know who owns its domains. But does it know where every subdomain points—and whether the resource behind it still exists? A dangling Domain Name System (DNS) record is a threat vector that’s going to become more…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (214+ words) The Registration Operations Workshop (ROW) is an informal industry conference that brings together professionals from across the domain name and DNS ecosystem to discuss the technical and operational aspects of domain name registration, maintenance, and IP addressing. Since its inception…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (332+ words) ICANN has terminated the accreditation agreements of two domain name registrars in successive days, including Estonia-based Trustname.com after repeated findings that it failed to respond promptly to phishing and other DNS abuse. A third registrar, Beijing Zihai Technology, received…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (788+ words) This brings me to the topic of IPv6. Technically, the argument for IPv6 is compelling. Its implementation solved a real technical problem. IPv4 address space is exhausted, and NAT introduces undesirable complexity.IPv6, on the other hand, gives us an enormous address space with…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (545+ words) CRN recently named the biggest cyber attacks and breaches the world has seen so far in 2026, and we zoomed in on five of them. We specifically tackled the attacks below. We collated network IoCs comprising subdomains, domains, and IP addresses…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (310+ words) The letter asks the US government and American policymakers to embrace open-weight AI rather than restrict it. The signatories of the letter are convinced that open-weight AI is the guarantee of broader access to AI, increased competition, less dependence on…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (333+ words) Evidence that malicious actors may control a substantial share of new gTLD registrations is testing ICANN’s definitions, safeguards and capacity to curb abuse at scale. Any industry confronted with evidence that a material share of its output may be controlled…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (201+ words) In every case, the one surface where the problem was always visible? Ordinary network infrastructure. A firewall caught Alibaba’s crypto mining spree because that kind of misaligned act comes in hot and heavy on a network activity graph. The harms…...