DNS Belgium Partners With APWG to Combat Internet Abuse
DNS Belgium, the company behind .BE domain name extension, announced a partnership with the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) in order to combat Internet abuse.
You can read the announcement after the jump :
“In 2014, a total of 4,240 hacked .be websites were actively used for phishing or malware. Internet abuse is still on the rise. In late 2014, we became a member of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) in order to more efficiently combat such abuses.
There were more than 48.000 infections in total, as multiple URLs or sub domains of a certain domain name can be infected at once. In 69% of the cases, the abuse was related to malware, 31% was related to phishing. On our website, you can find more information on the different types of abuse.
DNS Belgium itself cannot act against the abuse of certain domain names. We do inform the registrant as much as possible about the dangers. This helps us to maintain a healthy and reliable .be zone.
As soon as a security firm provides us with a list of infected domain names, DNS Belgium will contact the registrant in question, who more often than not is not aware of any abuse. His domain name is being used by third parties for fraudulent intentions. It is the responsibility of the registrant to take the appropriate action. You will find here what steps you can take straight away.
As a sponsoring member of the APWG, we get access to its knowledge in the field of internet abuse. The APWG organises yearly e-crime events, with the purpose of training certain parties such as banks and police in the fight against malware. The APWG also aims to improve the collaboration between these parties.”
Sex.co Now Available For Sale at $200,000
The domain name Sex.co is now available for sale with a buy-it-now price of $200,000,according to Heritage Auctions.
Heritage Auctions will be managing the sale of Sex.co. The company also stated that there are no other buyer’s fees associated with the offer.
According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in 2010.Moreover, the owner is Qauttro Media Co. The company has put the domain name for sale at a buy-it-now price of $200,000.
Brand.com Domain Name is Back For Sale
The domain name Brand.com is back available for sale, after changing hands for $500,000 two years ago, in 2013.
The domain name was purchased by ReputationChanger.com in 2013. The company now wants to change its activity field and no longer needs the domain name.
According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in 1995.
The company hopes to receive at least a “strong six figure” price for Brand.com.
Google Files Complaint for Google-Status.com Domain Name in Arbitration
Google,has recently filed a complaint against the owner of Google-Status.com domain name,seeking control of it.
Google filed the complaint with the National Arbitration Forum on February 19,2015.
According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in December, 2008.
The National Arbitration Forum will examine over the next days if the domain name is confusingly similar to Google’s trademark,if the current owner has rights over it and if the domain is being used in bad faith . Google-Status.com will be passed over to Google if it falls under all three of these stipulations.
At the time of writing this article, the case is still pending compliance checks with the National Arbitration Forum.
ICANN Updates Authorization Process for Release of Two-Character ASCII Labels
ICANN announced recently updates to the “Authorization Process for the Release of Two-Character ASCII Labels” to take into account additional direction from the ICANN Board.
On 12 February 2015, the Board took action to accept advice from the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) on this subject issued in the GAC’s 11 February 2015 Communiqué – Singapore [PDF, 113 KB], and directed the President and CEO, or his designee, to proceed immediately to implement the following changes to the process:
Implement improvements to the process to alert relevant governments when requests are initiated. Comments from relevant governments will be fully considered.
For new requests, the comment period will be for 60 days.
For requests with pending or completed comment periods, extend or re-open the comment period so that each request will undergo 60 days of comment period in total.
The updates to the process are effective as of 23 February 2015. The webpage where users can review requests has also been updated with several enhancements to improve navigability and allow users to find information more easily. New features include the following:
Requests can now be sorted by reference number, TLD, registry name and date posted.
The list of all requests for letter/letter two-character ASCII labels is now available for download as a .csv file.
A column has been added to identify whether a TLD has been granted a .BRAND specification.
The “View Comments” page has been updated to show all comments made in a calendar year, rather than showing comments on a month-by-month basis.
Please refer to the Authorization Process for Release of Two-Character ASCII Labels webpage for additional details.
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