DNSSEC Deployment 2016 Records Growth

A new report published State of DNSSEC Deployment 2016 there has been steady and strong growth in both the statistics around DNSSEC signing and validation — and also in the number of tools and libraries available to support DNSSEC. That growth, however, is not evenly distributed. While many separate sites provide DNSSEC statistics, this report that …

Cybersquatting complaints against .com names are reducing

.COM registrations are at an all-time high. Yet the fact remains: Overall, .COM domains feature in UDRPs less and less. That wasn’t the headline of WIPO’s March article. Instead, their press release bore the provocative title, “Cybersquatting Cases Up in 2015, Driven by New gTLDs”. WIPO – for those just joining the party – stands for the World Intellectual Property Organization. …

US-CERT, Verisign: new gTLDs pose increasing Security risk for business computers

The expansion of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) by ICANN in recent years can put enterprise computers at risk due to name conflicts between internal domain names used inside corporate networks and those that can now be registered on the public Internet. To explore the scope of the problem, researchers from Verisign and the University of …

CentralNic reports doubled profits in the first half of 2015

CentralNic, which is a technical partner for some of the top level domain applicants including DotConnectAfrica and a wholesale distributor for web domains, has reported in a latest press release that the company saw a 213% rise in bookings to £7.9mln in the six months to June 30, compared with £2.5mln in the corresponding period …

ICANN loses .Africa case: IRP panel rules in favor of DCA

The .Africa IRP has finally been ruled in favour of DotConnectAfrica Trust as the prevailing partly in case that has dragged for two years. The panel that comprised of Mr. Babak Barin who was President of Panel, Professor (Dr.) Catherine Kessedjian, and the Honourable Judge William J. Cahill, a retired San Francisco Superior Court Judge …

House Approves Bill for Congress to Oversight IANA Transition

“The active oversight by Congress adds another guardrail to this process and it demonstrates that the United States takes this transition very, very seriously,” said Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), who chairs the committee’s communications and technology subcommittee. The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), on Wednesday 17 June 2017 approved …

U.S. House of Representatives Votes ‘YES ‘Once Again to Deny IANA Transition Funds

The U.S. House of Representatives voted once again to deny funds to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to perform the transfer. The voting was done on 3rd June 2015 on the Bill titled “Making appropriations for Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, FY 2016” Section 536 of the now-passed $51 billion Commerce, …