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Domains, DNS, and TLS Certificates

Security, Compliance and Performance. These are great sounding words and every IT executive worth their paycheck is all over them. So why do large, sophisticated companies keep experiencing catastrophic domain and DNS-related outages again and again? See how major brands like Sorenson Telecom, Equifax and even Microsoft suffered domain-downtime and loss of customer goodwill.
Domain Name Association Outlines Healthy Practices as Part of Key Initiative →

The Domain Name Association (DNA) has put together a positive initiative to maintain and ameliorate the health of the Domain Name System (DNS) through a program known as the Healthy Domains Initiatives (HDI).

Hashtags in Super Bowl ads slip to 30% in 2017, overtaken by URL use in 39% →

Hashtag usage in Super Bowl ads peaked in 2014 and this year URLs took the lead as the #1 conversion tool. Must read for all advertising, marketing, digital and brand leaders.

Authentic Web partners with CIRA to deliver enterprise-grade secondary DNS services →

Read the official press release about Authentic Web’s partnership with the Canadian Internet Registry Authority (CIRA) to deliver secondary DNS services. Implementing a secondary DNS service can mitigate future DDoS attacks.

Analyzing new top level domain registrations by country →

Provides an interesting analysis of new TLD registrations from a geographic perspective.

Multiple DNS Providers to Mitigate DDoS Attacks →

This article discussed the major DDoS attack against DYN in the latter half of 2016 and ways to mitigate future attacks through a secondary DNS provider.

Should new gTLDs be first-come, first-served? →

Kevin Murphy, Chief Editor of Domain Incite conveys a circulating idea of allocating new gTLDs on a first-com, first-served basis rather than a phased round approach.