As we are receiving abuse reports from our sources for a select group of African TLDs, I thought it would be a good time to catch up with Daniel and get his take on the latest concerning Internet usage, brand and IP protection issues, and abuse in African TLDs.
Category Archives: DNS Abuse
I&JPN Toolkit: DNS Level Action to Address Abuses
In my latest video interview and podcast for iQ, I spoke with Elizabeth Behsudi about the recently published I&JPN Toolkit on Domain Name System (DNS) Level Action to Address Abuses.
iQ Abuse Report Overview & AbuseStats.com
My colleage LG provides an overview of this service that is designed to allow anyone to gain daily insight into whether you or someone else has a problem with domain name abuse.
How Spamhaus addresses DNS abuse
How is the domain block list compiled? What is the effect of price/# of abuse reports in newgtlds vs ccTLDs & legacy TLDs? How do you get off the bad list? What about evidence? What’s a “phishing rod” attack? And more…
Managing Domain Name Abuse
How can a registry or registrar reduce the amount of duplicative and non-actionable abuse reports? How do you get off a blacklist or bad list? Should there be evidence standards from the reputation/blacklist providers? And more…
Cleaning Up The Internet
By allowing Internet Infrastructure providers to act faster, more effectively and efficiently against scams. My interview with Jorij Abraham, director of Scamadviser.com.
A conversation with “LG” Forsberg
If you’ve ever attended or wanted to attend Nordic Domain Days (LG’s the founder); want to hear what he has to say about challenges in trying to tackle domain name abuse and how iQ decides which abuse feeds/reputation block lists to integrate, then you may want to check out this video.
A message to ICANN accredited registrars
Comments related to the recently announced ICANN audit of registrar compliance with DNS security threat obligations.
iQ Abuse Manager – Not Just for Registries
The iQ Abuse Manager (formerly RegistryOffice Abuse Monitor) is now used by leading registrars and nearly 150 gTLDs and ccTLDs, and is also available to hosting service providers and brands.
RegistryOffice adds more COVID-19 scam domain report feeds to Abuse Monitor.
We will provide these feeds, as well as our existing reputation feeds, via Abuse Monitor at no charge or obligation for 60 days to any registry operator (gTLD or ccTLD), registrar or hosting providers that desire to access.
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