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Is your business secured against DNS hijacking?

December 23, 2022

DNS hijackers are still a major threat that cannot be ignored by any business which relies on its online presence. Although the primary targets for cyberattacks are financial institutions due

Shorter SSL certificates validity and its impact on business domains

November 21, 2022

SSL/TLS certificates issued for longer than one year will no longer be supported by the biggest browsers starting September 1st, 2020, following Apple’s announcement earlier this year. In order to

AdultBlock: protect your domain portfolio from reputation damage

October 11, 2022

To avoid the damage that cybersquatting and/or phishing can cause to trademark owners, a new protection system has just been launched. AdultBlock allows you to block domain name registrations in

From expired domain name to hijacked identity

July 20, 2022

Completely abandoning a once used domain name without taking precautions is usually not a good idea. Expired domains, especially ones used for commercial purposes, can cause many problems and even

Domain typosquatting: Online trademark protection from typos

June 14, 2022

A recently published report contains the following alarming statistic: In 2018, browsers “inadvertently” visited .cm websites such as itunes.cm or espn.cm on 12 million occasions, thereby reaching the sites of

International domain names benefit global businesses

May 24, 2022

Internationalised domain names (IDNS) are essential to any business with global ambitions. IDNs, domain names which use non-Latin scripts, respect the linguistic diversity of Internet users around the world. They

The Renewal Process within the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH)

April 14, 2022

Why renew? Deloitte has disclosed a study which offers a stunning insight : 95% of the queries for trademark terms are not being followed through to a live registration if the

2020, the year Australia opens the .AU!

September 6, 2019

The Australian Registry, auDA, has announced that the registration of domain names under the .AU extension should take place in the first half of 2020. Reconsidered and postponed many times,

Argentina: revolution in .AR

August 30, 2019

A small revolution in the Argentinian Internet: it is now possible to directly register a domain name in .AR as soon as the extension opens for business, scheduled for February

The next round of gTLDs is around the corner

August 9, 2019

The next round is around the corner. ICANN has been working on adding generic extensions to the internet for many years, and the next round will, in fact, be the

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