Europol’s recent report on the cybercriminal economy highlights eight big cybercrime trends that are likely to continue in the foreseeable future. The report also stresses that the scope, volume and…
November 29, 2016
What’s in a Domain Name? When you launch your business online, your domain name will probably be the first thing your customers encounter. This makes it as important to your…
November 28, 2016
It seems that fake domain expiration emails are back in vogue. They allegedly come from the domain registration service and claim they are an expiration notice. People think that their…
November 27, 2016
The Good and the Bad of Doing Business on the Internet In today’s world Internet provides a flexible platform of virtually unlimited possibilities for expanding your business online, eg easy…
November 25, 2016
The week of 21 November 2016 opened with a bang. Oracle announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Dyn, a leading cloud-based Internet performance and DNS provider. Dyn, which…
November 21, 2016
In late October 2016 Google announced the release of Nomulus, its own open source cloud based top level domain registrar platform that was so far used to power Google’s own…
October 31, 2016
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) adopted a resolution last week that released for registration two-letter domains that match country codes at the second level for new gTLDs…
October 27, 2016
Domain hijacking or domain theft is the practice of stealing a domain name from its legal owners. This means redirecting the domain to another web server or transferring it to…
October 25, 2016
Domain parking refers to the option of putting your domain on hold without associating it with a website or email service. This means that when visitors type in the domain…
October 22, 2016
Which are the country code top-level domains? Country code top-level domains or ccTLDs are domain extensions that are specific to a particular country or region unlike generic extensions (gTLDs) such…
October 14, 2016