The Institute strives to serve as a resource for all interested stakeholders
fighting DNS Abuse, whether they are registries, registrars, security researchers,
or any other interested party.
The Institute is pleased to provide and maintain a Resource Library on
publications related to DNS Abuse. These documents advance the
conversation regarding DNS Abuse and help educate registries and registrars
as to how to address it. These resources also may prove useful to someone
that wants to learn more about DNS Abuse and how to tackle it
In early March 2022 the DNSAI received a letter requesting input from the ICANN GNSO on behalf of their ‘Small Team on DNS Abuse’. This is the DNSAI response.
The DNSAI’s new centralized DNS Abuse reporting tool, NetBeacon, is going to provide real value to registries and registrars and simplify the work and greatly improve the experience for those who are reporting DNS Abuse.
the DNSAI researched the reporting processes of the largest registries and registrars in order to better understand how they accept reports of abuse. This article summarizes the findings of this initiative.
This post is a thought experiment intended to provide a new alternative method for defining DNS Abuse – and the criteria to most effectively mitigate it. Our current definition of DNS Abuse was arrived at by identifying and categorizing online harms based on how the harm is executed. Instead, we propose that a definition could be derived by considering the attributes of how a harm can be mitigated. Through this approach, DNS Abuse is not a list of harms selected by their category, but instead consists of harms that are appropriately mitigated by the DNS. The rest of this post is an elaboration of what appropriate means in this context.
Panelists at the recent inaugural DNS Abuse Forum identified several current challenges and described the overall scope of the problem, which will require unprecedented levels of collaboration by those invested in protecting the DNS.
In order to ensure that the DNS Abuse Institute is considering the problem from all appropriate perspectives, it has put together an Advisory Council to provide insight and guidance on Institute projects and initiatives from a wide variety of viewpoints.
Panelists at the recent inaugural DNS Abuse Forum identified several current challenges and described the overall scope of the problem, which will require unprecedented levels of collaboration by those invested in protecting the DNS.
PIR announces the creation of the DNS Abuse Institute. The Institute is charged with creating initiatives that will establish recommended practices, foster collaboration, and develop industry-wide solutions to combating DNS Abuse.
Public Interest Registry, the People behind .ORG, today launched the DNS Abuse Institute as part of its ongoing efforts to protect Internet users from the threat of DNS Abuse such as malware, botnets, phishing, pharming, and spam.
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