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ICANN must do more to fight internet security threats [Guest Post]

ICANN and its contracted parties need to do more to tackle security threats, write Dave Piscitello and Lyman Chapin of Interisle Consulting. The ICANN Registry and Registrar constituencies insist that ICANN’s role with respect to DNS abuse is limited b...

September 16, 2019 Dave Piscitello and Lyman Chapin abuse, Domain Policy, Guest Post, interisle

#Spamhaus December 2018 update : The 10 most abused #TLDs

SpamHaus, a global keeper of domain and IP violations, maintains a list of abusive behavior originating from a large variety of gTLDs and TLDs. How does SpamHaus measure that type of negative performance among domain extensions? The abusive behavior of...

December 28, 2018 DomainGang abuse, top 10 most abused TLDs

Tech giants gunning for AlpNames over new gTLD “abuse”

A small group of large technology companies including Microsoft and Facebook have demanded that ICANN Compliance take a closer look at AlpNames, the budget registrar regularly singled out as a spammers’ favorite. The ad hoc coalition, calling its...

March 7, 2018 Kevin Murphy abuse, alpnames, Domain Registrars, eBay, Famous Four Media, independent compliance working party, Spam

Registries reject lower fees for anti-abuse prowess

Registries have largely rejected a proposal for them to be offered financial incentives to lower the amount of abuse in their gTLDs. That’s despite the idea gaining broad support from governments, intellectual property interests and restricted-re...

February 16, 2018 Kevin Murphy abuse, cct, Domain Policy, Spam

SpamHaus ranks most-botted TLDs and registrars

NameCheap and Uniregistry have emerged as two of the most-abused domain name companies, using statistics on botnet command and control centers released by SpamHaus this week. SpamHaus data shows that over a quarter of all botnet C&Cs found during ...

January 9, 2018 Kevin Murphy .ru, abuse, Domain Registrars, Namecheap, Spamhaus

Spamhaus October 2017 update : The 10 most abused TLDs

SpamHaus, a global keeper of domain and IP violations, maintains a list of abusive behavior originating from a large variety of gTLDs and TLDs. How does SpamHaus measure that? The abusive behavior of domain TLDs is calculated as the ratio of abusive domains that exist in a given TLD, to its total number of active […]

October 21, 2017 DomainGang abuse, Spamhaus, SpamHaus abused TLDs

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