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Curated Press on Domain and DNS Compromises To help our web audience better understand DNS related security exposures and compliance gaps this curated article page is dedicated to educating business leaders, IT and infrastructure teams. The more we understand the exposures, the better we can prevent them.
Source: Circle ID From defensive to strategic domain registrations

Most domain names owned by corporations are defensive registrations. Boston Ivy offers a new strategic perspective on how domains can be used by marketing and strategic terms to grow the business.

Source: Circle ID Is the financial industry the most active dot brand participant?

Guillaume Pahud, the CEO of Dot Stories analyzes how we measure the success of the new gTLD program. He then answers the questions of whether or not the financial industry is the most active dot brand participant.

Source: Domain Incite WordPress reveals IT bought .blog for $19 million

An analysis of the .BLOG acquisition by Wordpress’ parent company Automatic for $19 million and their stealth approach.

Source: Venture Beat The creator of WordPress on why .blog was worth $19 million

This is an interview with Matt Mullenweg on why they felt .BLOG was worth the $19 million investment.

Source: Search Engine Journal Does Moving to a New gTLD Domain Name Help Rankings?

An updated analysis of the interaction between the new gTLDs and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) by Bill Hartzer, an SEO expert based in Houston.

Source: Econsultancy Five companies using branded top-level domains (TLDs) & why

A list of 5 brands with an active brand TLD such as next100.bmw and home.barclays and their benefits.

Source: Circle ID French Supermarket Giant Leclerc Turns On DotBrand

Paris-based hypermarket chain E. Leclerc has several active brand TLD domains such as sport.leclerc. E. Leclerc has several retail brands and employs over 94,000 employees.

Source: Nameshield Why Dot Brands are dragging their feet?

This opinion article explains that brand TLDs are not launching quicker because they have not come across the tables of digital marketing teams.