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.
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Imaginons.mma: a strategic naming underpinning a high-added-value CRM approach
The leading mutual insurance group in France, MMA is one of 496 ...
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SPF, DKIM and DMARC: what’s the situation with the .fr TLD?
Email is one of the oldest internet applications. It was conceived ...
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Adopting DNSSEC is never too late
DNSSEC is an old technology, the current version having been ...
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IoT privacy: mid-term progress report on the PIVOT project and Afnic’s work
As a back-end registry operator and stakeholder in Research ...
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An Internet still under construction: back to the French Internet Governance Forum 2022
The 2022 edition of the French Internet Governance Forum (IGF ...
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ICANN: its life and work (part 6): The Supporting Organizations: focus on the ccNSO
Created in 1998 by the Clinton Administration to ensure the ...
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.brand: a non-negligible asset in the customer experience
The notion of customer experience is a broad concept that encompasses ...
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Internet Governance Forum Ethiopia 2022: towards greater resilience in times of crisis
The seventeenth edition of the annual Internet Governance ...
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Using the .fr API with Elixir (4/4)
We’ve presented the general workings of the .fr API and we’ve ...
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RDAP, obtaining information on a domain name
To obtain information on a domain name, for example on its holder’s ...
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Using the .fr API with Go (3/4)
We’ve presented the general workings of the .fr API and we’ve ...
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Using the .fr API with Python (2/4)
We’ve presented the general workings of the .fr API. Let’s ...
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ICANN 75: election of new representatives, Internet fragmentation and handling abuse
The Internet governance summit, the 25th ICANN AGM was held ...
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RFC 9276, Afnic adopts the no-salt diet
In the sleepy days of summer, just a few weeks before the switch-over ...
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The .fr API for Registrars (1/4)
Since 1 October 2022, the .fr Registrars have had an API (Application ...
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ICANN: its life and work (part 5): The Supporting Organizations: focus on the GNSO
Created in 1998 by the Clinton Administration to ensure the ...
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Increase of .com and .net prices: between protecting margins and forging ahead?
On 28 July 2022, Verisign, the registry for the .COM and .NET ...
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Tricks of the trade – the actors involved in setting up a custom TLD: the data escrow provider
A custom TLD is set up with a certain number of specific actors, ...
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Calling all Registrars: .FR = greater profit margins!
I won’t repeat in this article the fact that the .fr TLD is the ...
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What happens at the registrar
We’ve already talked here about how a domain name registry ...
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ICANN, its life and work (part 4): The Supporting Organizations, focus on the ASO
Created in 1998 by the Clinton Administration to ensure the ...
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.brand: acquisition costs versus return on investment. A worthwhile endeavour?
Dot-brand TLDs may be among the Internet domains most coveted ...
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New TCP standard, RFC 9293
A new technical standard called “RFC 9293” was published ...
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NIST announces the winners of the post-quantum competition
On July 5th, 2022, US standards institute NIST announced the ...