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.
Calling all Registrars: .FR = greater profit margins!
I won’t repeat in this article the fact that the .fr TLD is the ...
What happens at the registrar
We’ve already talked here about how a domain name registry ...
ICANN, its life and work (part 4): The Supporting Organizations, focus on the ASO
Created in 1998 by the Clinton Administration to ensure the ...
.brand: acquisition costs versus return on investment. A worthwhile endeavour?
Dot-brand TLDs may be among the Internet domains most coveted ...
New TCP standard, RFC 9293
A new technical standard called “RFC 9293” was published ...
NIST announces the winners of the post-quantum competition
On July 5th, 2022, US standards institute NIST announced the ...
Reorganisation of the technical standards for HTTP
You will certainly be familiar with the HTTP protocol (Hypertext ...
Protect your emails thanks to the DNS (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
Email is particularly targeted by scammers using phishing ...
Applying the COMAR classifier to 35k unique phishing URLs
In our previous blogs [1, 2], we discussed the COMAR classifier, ...
Mid-term progress report on the DiNS project and Afnic’s work
SYRELI: trademark vs. a pet’s name
Cybersquatting is a practice consisting of registering a domain ...
The brand TLDs leading the way
In 2021, 496 brands had their own custom Internet domain. Despite ...
SMEs: don't deprive yourselves of the opportunity of a dot brand
Due to their entry cost, their registration formalities and ...
The Internet of Things (part 1) – interoperability and its limits: how Afnic proposes to respond
As a major Internet player and DNS expert, Afnic has been working for more than ten years on project...
ICANN, its life and work (part 3): a multistakeholder organisational structure
Created in 1998 by the Clinton Administration to ensure the ...
Why some brands have withdrawn their brandTLD
It is always surprising to learn that certain brands have parted ways with the TLD they launched....
NFTs and domain names, friends and partners?
NFTs are much in fashion. In the context of domains, they have even been cited in an ICANN conflict....
New DNS record types to give more information for client applications
We often read that the DNS “translates domain names into IP addresses”...
brandTLD: an essential means of protecting your Internet brand?
In 2012, more than 1,000 applications were filed for new Internet TLDs.
Meeting the “Internet United” challenge: when Poland hosted the Internet Governance Forum
The sixteenth edition of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) ...
ICANN: its life and work (Part 2): ICANN: main tenets of its functioning
Created in 1998 by the Clinton Administration to ensure the ...
Tricks of the trade - The actors involved in setting up a custom TLD: the Registry
After the Back-End Registry Operator, I invite you to discover ...
“And above all, don’t forget .FR!” - the new technique for beating rivals on search engines
You may already have noticed the new trend among advertisers: ...
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