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This week, the European Commission published important initiatives relevant to the Domain Name System (DNS) including domain name registration data and DNS services providers. ICANN org would like to bring this to the attention of the community. The Digital Services Act Package On Tuesday, 15 December 2020, the Digital Services Act package was published, which is comprised of the Digital Services Act […]
Start-ups want unusual internet addresses to help stand out. One winner: The island of Anguilla, whose “.ai” domain is a favorite of A.I. start-ups. By Steve Lohr Feb. 4, 2020, 3:00 a.m. ET 24 The luxury resorts along serene white-sand beaches have long propped up the economy of Anguilla, a tiny British territory in the Caribbean. But […]
Part One: DNS Encryption – Evolution or revolution A short primer on how we got to here Rob WilliamsonTuesday, November 19, 2019 Part 1 of a series of pieces on DNS encryption. Read part 2: DNS over HTTPs (DoH) – Who do you love? ( Right after this Part One) “Centralized DoH is currently a privacy net […]
The Middle East DNS Forum brings together field experts and affected parties to discuss the latest developments in the global domain marketplace and ways to strengthen the DNS industry in the Middle East. The DNS forum offers participants opportunities to: Network with other stakeholders and industry experts Discuss business, technical, and policy aspects of the […]
by Lance Whitney in Innovation on October 29, 2019, 6:39 AM PST Businesses will be able to register their own domains with an extension of .new to take users to a website for creating content. Users of G Suite can easily browse to a web page for a specific product simply by adding the extension .new to the name as […]
The Domain Name System (DNS) serves as a crucial but largely unheralded system underpinning the Internet’s ability to connect its users and devices. The safe and secure operation of the DNS has provided a firm foundation for the growth of the Internet as a global public resource, but much like the Internet as a whole, […]
DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS both do what they are designed to do. So what’s all the fighting about? By Fahmida Rashid Privacy and security specialists are in the middle of a very public fight over the future of Internet encryption. In September, cable companies and other telecommunications industry groups in the United States […]