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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.
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How Did the Closure of Freenom Impact DNS Abuse Across the TLD Ecosystem?
Introduction Freenom, the domain name registrar and registry operator, received a great deal of attention in March 2023 when published reports noted that it had
Generic Abuse Policy for Registrars and Registries
This DNSAI post is the first in a three-part series that will attempt to provide reasonable, bite size introductions to the key components of developing anti-abuse practices.
DNSAI Newsletter April 2022
Join our Executive Director of the DNS Abuse Institute, Graeme Bunton, as he shares updates on NetBeacon, ICANN 73, and a recent DNS Abuse study by the European Commission.
DNSAI Response to a Letter from the GNSO Small Team on DNS Abuse
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.
Centralized Abuse Reporting Update
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.
Secure Your Website, Save the Internet*
Learn what is meant by malicious registrations, how to manually distinguish between malicious registrations and compromised websites, and what the best practices are for mitigation in each circumstance.
Compromised Sites and Malicious Registrations: Best Practices for the Identification and Mitigation of DNS Abuse
Learn what is meant by malicious registrations, how to manually distinguish between malicious registrations and compromised websites, and what the best practices are for mitigation in each circumstance.
The Current State of DNS Abuse Reporting
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.
DNS Abuse Definition: Attributes of Mitigation
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.
Phishing Attack Trends
Since collecting and publishing data on the number of unique domains used for phishing attacks and malware distribution as part of our NetBeacon MAP reporting, we’ve been
Introducing the NetBeacon Institute: Empowering a Safer Web
DNS Abuse Institute announces renaming to coincide with an expansion of its offerings in an effort to eliminate DNS Abuse online Reston, VA – The
How Did the Closure of Freenom Impact DNS Abuse Across the TLD Ecosystem?
Introduction Freenom, the domain name registrar and registry operator, received a great deal of attention in March 2023 when published reports noted that it had stopped allowing new registrations for the five country-code top level domains (ccTLDs) that it operated (.CF for the Central African Republic, .GA for Gabon, .GQ
Phishing Attack Trends
Since collecting and publishing data on the number of unique domains used for phishing attacks and malware distribution as part of our NetBeacon MAP reporting, we’ve been on the lookout for any discernible patterns or trends. In our NetBeacon MAP data, we noticed an increase in the February numbers compared to January,
Introducing the NetBeacon Institute: Empowering a Safer Web
DNS Abuse Institute announces renaming to coincide with an expansion of its offerings in an effort to eliminate DNS Abuse online Reston, VA – The DNS Abuse Institute, dedicated to combating online technical abuse and fostering a safer digital environment, announced Monday its transformation into the NetBeacon Institute. This renaming
Measuring DNS Abuse is Difficult
The DNS Abuse Institute launches a new level of reporting that reveals the spectrum of how malicious phishing and malware is distributed across the DNS registration ecosystem.
Measuring the Impact of the ICANN DNS Abuse Amendments
The DNS Abuse Institute launches a new level of reporting that reveals the spectrum of how malicious phishing and malware is distributed across the DNS registration ecosystem.
GAC Communiqués and Community Activity on DNS Abuse
The DNS Abuse Institute launches a new level of reporting that reveals the spectrum of how malicious phishing and malware is distributed across the DNS registration ecosystem.
A Holistic Approach to Tackling DNS Abuse for Registries and Registrars
In September 2023, ICANN hosted the DNS Symposium in Da Nang, Vietnam. This included a ‘Day of DNS Abuse Discussions’ with a comprehensive agenda. This article provides a high level overview for what tackling DNS Abuse looks like from the perspective of a registrar or registry operator. The purpose is
Challenges in Measuring DNS Abuse
From the creation of NetBeacon Measurement and Analytics Platform (MAP), we knew that measuring DNS Abuse* would be difficult and that it would be beneficial to anticipate the challenges we would encounter. With more than a year of published NetBeacon MAP: Monthly Analysis reports, we are sharing insights into one
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