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Through its members, team and partners, Afnic brings together personalities with a perceptive and sometimes offbeat view of current events on the internet, domain names and, of course, Afnic itself. With this blog, we aim to share with you a freer and more personal, but still expert and professional expression of views on topical matters.

DotBrand New gTLDs: A Timeline for Application and Launch

Today Chris Niemi from Markmonitor is doing us the courtesy ...

Taking advantage of your TLD to further improve web security with HSTS

Some TLDs (top level domains) are reserved for a single organisation. ...

Return on investment of a brand TLD, a strategic asset that is often undervalued

In a world where commercial performance, customer trust and ...

Protection, flexibility and innovation: Edeka’s brandTLD strategy

In 2012, businesses had the opportunity of applying to obtain ...

Amusement parks: 3 tips to avoid online scams

Spring has arrived, and with it the reopening of amusement parks, ...

DNS records: a sticky subject

This article seeks to explain the notion of “glue” in the ...

Amazon and its personalised Internet domain: eyes fixed firmly on the future

Amazon, a leader in online commerce and web services, stands ...

Can a virtual red cross be placed on a hospital network?

A number of international treaties grouped together under ...

The Top 6 of growing Brand TLDs of 2024: practices and strategies

Certain brand TLDs posted considerable growth in 2024, an indication ...

A communication challenge taken up with gusto by the Afnic registrars

Afnic launched its first communication contest for its distributors ...

What are the options for a domain name that’s no longer needed?

The recent problem of a government domain name corresponding ...

RPP, a future protocol for creating and managing domain names?

Most of the major domain name registries currently receive ...

Highlights of the Cercle des .marque (Brand TLD Club) annual assembly, an event dedicated to “dot brand” TLDs

Launched five years ago by Afnic, the Cercle des .marque is the ...

Best practices: keeping your DNSSEC infrastructure secure and reliable

Internet security is currently a major concern for all online ...

“Dot brand” TLDs: Afnic reveals the exclusive results of its perception survey

In September 2024, Afnic commissioned an independent nationwide ...

RSP Program: ICANN launches a Registry Service Provider Evaluation Program

The Registry Service Provider (RSP) Evaluation Program launched ...

A new opportunity to push your brand on the Internet

In 2026, ICANN, the governing body for some of the world’s ...

SPF, DKIM and DMARC: rapid rise in adoption across .fr

The SPF, DKIM and DMARC authentication protocols form a bulwark ...

Good practices for proving identity in online procedures

In a context in which both purchases of goods and services and ...

Afnic contributes to ENE5AI, a sovereign 5G research project

In distributed systems, the principle of cloud computing ...

Using .bnpparibas to the benefit of the Group’s customers and business lines

BNP Paribas Group was a trailblazer in applying for its own top-level ...

RIPE Atlas probes, the world's largest Internet monitoring system

The Internet is vast and consists of innumerable networks, ...

Does your company, city or region need its own TLD?

You may have witnessed a meteor shower or the aurora borealis ...

DNS delegation and its possible evolution with DELEG

The notion of delegation is central to the world of domain names ...

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07/15/25

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Expert papers

DotBrand New gTLDs: A Timeline for Application

Today Chris Niemi from Markmonitor is doing us the courtesy ...

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07/07/2025

World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20

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