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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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NetBeacon Institute – 2025 Year in Review
Time seems to move incredibly quickly at the Institute, most likely a function of the volume of activity we’re engaged in. As 2025 winds down
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.
The DNS Abuse Institute Roadmap
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.
Introducing the DNS Abuse Institute Advisory Council
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.
The Path to Combatting Abuse
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.
An Institute to Combat Abuse
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.
PIR Launches New Institute to Combat 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.
Introducing NetBeacon MAP: Individual Dashboards Version 2.0.0
The NetBeacon Institute is pleased to announce updated NetBeacon Measurement and Analytics Platform (MAP) Individual Dashboards for registries and registrars. Version 2.0.0 provides more actionable
Criminals are exploiting the UK’s Winter Fuel Payment – this is how global industry collaboration is tackling it
A joint blog: Mayuresh Walke, Nominet, and Rowena Schoo, NetBeacon Institute Nominet sits on the NetBeacon Institute Advisory Council – working together to reduce DNS
NetBeacon Institute – 2025 Year in Review
Time seems to move incredibly quickly at the Institute, most likely a function of the volume of activity we’re engaged in. As 2025 winds down and we catch our breath, we wanted to take a moment to highlight some of what we’ve accomplished this year. 2025 Highlights: Subdomain Cloaking: In August 2025,
Introducing NetBeacon MAP: Individual Dashboards Version 2.0.0
The NetBeacon Institute is pleased to announce updated NetBeacon Measurement and Analytics Platform (MAP) Individual Dashboards for registries and registrars. Version 2.0.0 provides more actionable insights within domain abuse, mitigation, and peer groups. The updates make the data more relatable and customizable, allowing users to move beyond simple monthly snapshots to grasp
Criminals are exploiting the UK’s Winter Fuel Payment – this is how global industry collaboration is tackling it
A joint blog: Mayuresh Walke, Nominet, and Rowena Schoo, NetBeacon Institute Nominet sits on the NetBeacon Institute Advisory Council – working together to reduce DNS Abuse globally. The partnership highlights how important it is for trusted organisations to collaborate in keeping the internet safe and secure. We remain dedicated to working together
Bulletin: DNS Abuse Campaign Exploiting “Subdomain Cloaking”
Summary In August 2025, NetBeacon MAP identified 2,227 unique domain names that appear to be part of a coordinated phishing campaign. The registrations are primarily concentrated in two registrar credentials: 90% (1994) in Aceville Pte. Ltd. (IANA ID 3858) and 10% (230) Dominet (HK) Limited (IANA ID 3775). This campaign uses a
Recent spike in malicious phishing concentrated in two registrars
Summary Record Highs in NetBeacon MAP Data In March 2025 we observed two record highs in NetBeacon Measurement and Analytics Platform (MAP) data: the highest number of unique domain names associated with phishing (47,613), and the largest month-on-month increase in unique domain names associated with phishing (63%). See Figure 1: Aggregate Trends
White Paper: Proposal for PDPs on DNS Abuse
The NetBeacon Institute is pleased to publish our White Paper: Proposal for PDPs on DNS Abuse. We created this paper to support and advance ICANN Community discussions on potential policy development related to DNS Abuse. From our unique perspective, we believe there are a number of issues that are constrained enough to
How have the gTLD contractual amendments impacted DNS Abuse?
Overview In this context, DNS Abuse is defined as malware, botnets, phishing, pharming, and spam (when spam serves as a delivery mechanism for the other forms of DNS Abuse). This was a tremendous achievement. ICANN, the participating registries and registrars, and the ICANN community all deserve recognition for this work. These
NetBeacon Reporter introduces new features as it reaches 50,000 DNS Abuse Reports
NetBeacon Reporter introduces new features as it reaches 50,000 DNS Abuse Reports Since launching NetBeacon Reporter in 2022, we’ve engaged with registrars and DNS Abuse reporters to onboard users, increase reports, and collect ideas for improvements. Today we’re pleased to share that we’ve sent over 50,000 reports of DNS Abuse. This achievement
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