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.
30 years of success and danger: the Web, URLs and the future
This month (the exact date is apparently not known), we are celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of...
[Success stories] Strengthen your infrastructure to suit your ambitions
Whether to improve your architecture or to limit certain risks of cyber attacks, it may be necessary...
February 1, 2019: is the DNS going to shake?
A new deadline is about to shake the internet ... After the Year 2000 bug, the drying-up of IPv4 add...
[Success stories] They chose to have their own TLD
The development in uses on the web means each organization has to rethink its digital strategy in or...
[Success stories] .museum, how a historic Internet suffix was revived
There are nearly 1,500 Internet suffixes to date.
The main steps in effectively launching your .brand
This third article provides a checklist of the key steps required to launch your custom Internet suf...
6 secrets on how to improve the renewal of domain names
Acquiring a new customer usually costs 5 times more than keeping one. In a mature market like domain...
[Video] Back to IGF 2018 in Paris
Following the Internet Governance Forum 2018 (IGF 2018) that took place in Paris at UNESCO on Novemb...
A .BRAND to enhance customer experience
Your brand is a valuable asset, an essential lever in your marketing and sales strategy. That solid...
Afnic commits to DNS security at the international level
I have had the pleasure of being Vice President of the TLD-OPS Group since June 2018. I actively par...
Replacement of the KSK of the root zone: Are you ready?
On 18 September ICANN published a decision of its Board. It puts an end to more than 2 years of proc...
How the SNCF implemented its new digital strategy with oui.sncf
At the end of December 2017, SNCF launched its new online booking platform, www.oui.sncf, after a co...
Franco-Dutch research project on automatic classification of domain name abuse
SIDN Labs, Afnic Labs, and Grenoble Alps University started a new research project called “Classific...
The auditive memorization of domain names
A few years ago we called upon Olivier Mokaddem, founder of the Human Sciences strategy agency, Fast...
What are the possible actions against domain name abuses?
Last week we detailed the various things that are grouped under the name of "fraudulent or abusive u...
Identity theft by domain name: what Afnic does
Time goes by peacefully when suddenly you are accused of every evil or almost all, and simply becaus...
Cybersquatting, Spam, Phishing… the different types of domain name abuses
The term "abusive use" is difficult to define. For example, the owner of a trademark will tend to ca...
[Video] Review of the French Internet Governance Forum 2018
Following the French Internet Governance Forum (IGF France) that took place on 5 July 2018 in Paris,...
Custom Internet extensions: the opportunities for brands
On June 19, Afnic organized its first working breakfast on the theme of brandTLDs....
How to avoid inadmissibility in the SYRELI procedure
To date, out of all the files declared complete at the time when proceedings were initiated only...
Which English terms are most used in .FR domain names?
In order to find simple, short, evocative, memorable, intuitive domain names, etc., .FR holders ofte...
Domain name security, the example of cryptocurrencies
A study of three hijackings of domain names in the last six months, in the world of cryptocurrencies...
Personality test: Are you ready for GDPR?
To celebrate Data Privacy Day on January 28, 2018...
Do GeoTLDs like .alsace have an effect on local SEO?
Do the new gTLDs perform well in Google? Do GeoTLDs like .alsace have an SEO effect locally?...
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