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Asian TLDs bide their time on DNSSEC
News update Thailand goes ahead to adopt security protocol for country-code top-level domain, but other countries in region continue testing and may not follow suit yet.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Network security, Security implementation/standards, Security Management, DNS, Registry, Thailand, Web Browser, browser company
Is .sex a scam?
News Missing sex? This email, circulating across Asia, does not peddle adult material nor self-improvement advice. Rather, it solicits registrations for what is claimed to be "the latest domain name extension."
Phishing prevention starts with the URL
Insight Phishing attacks are on the rise, but do your organization's URL naming practices help protect customers or help the attackers?
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Spam and phishing
Lawyers, analysts: ICANN vote will cause URL chaos
News The decision to let custom top-level domains be created will result in a 'nightmare' for brand managers, according to observers.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Butler Group, ICANN, research analyst, London, Internet, brand, analyst, Tesco
MOL's DotCC halves expected number of domain names
News DotCC Ltd, a subsidiary of MOL.com, has halved the expected number of .cc (dot-cc) domain name registrations in the Asia Pacific region this year from 400,000 to 200,000 in light of the crumbling dotcom world.
DotCC forges alliance with China's Sohu.com
News MOL.com subsidiary DotCC Ltd and China's Sohu.com have formed a strategic alliance to push .cc (dot-cc) domain name registration services and domain availability via the latter's Web site to the mass Chinese community.
Time for a new domain name: dot-stupid
News It seems that the Internet is finally going to get some new top-level domains. It is going to expand beyond dot-com, dot-net, dot-org and the few other now-familiar extensions with two new ones: dot-biz and dot-info.
F-Secure answers .bank criticisms
News Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer of the security company, has defended its .bank top-level domain suggestion.
Tags: Domain names, Data security, Network security, Security Management, Security implementation/standards
Keep DNS servers from contributing to denial-of-service attacks
Techguide How can a recursive query become a DDoS attack? It doesn't take much. Mike Mullins explains how an attacker can take advantage of a DNS server using recursion to perpetrate a DDoS attack.
Tags: Business security, PC security, Data security, Security, Security Management
.biz domain draws 2 million applicants
News US-based Neulevel Inc, the registry for .biz, has received 2 million applications for the top-level domain (TLD).
Millions queue for .biz domain 
News US-based Neulevel Inc, the registry for .biz, has received 2 million applications for the top-level domain (TLD).
Does what comes after the .dot matter?
Blogs Would you pay the same amount of money for a domain name that ends in ".asia" as you would for ".com"? If your answer is...
.info falls flat in Asia Pacific
News Industry response to the imminent release of the long awaited .info top-level domain (TLD) has been lukewarm at best, with Asian companies forming only 5 percent of overall requests for new domains.
DNS resource records still open to malicious redirection
Techguide Attacks against DNS cache integrity are an easy way for criminals to redirect your unsuspecting users to malicious sites. Learn more about how DNS works and what exactly DNS cache poisoning is.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Network security, Domain names, NIST, Security, Domain Name, DNS Server, Entry, IP, IP Address
Globalized domains to up phishing attacks
News Launch of local language domain names not likely to significantly impact spam rates but can lead to more phishing attacks, warn security experts.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Spam and phishing, Phishing, American Standard Inc., Current Domain Name, Banking, Domain Name, Domain, ICANN
