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Resource Center

Domain and DNS resources for enterprise business, digital and IT Leadership.

We research, publish, and curate resources of interest to brand stakeholders responsible for domain and DNS management. Best practice articles and comprehensive guides tackle everyday problems and security issues with solutions advice to help improve corporate domain and DNS management.

White papers

Domains and the DNS are gaining prominence in the business and technology press. From digital disasters to stunning brand innovations, these are the stories we’re reading and sharing that guide us in the new TLD era.
DNS Security and Compliance in the Retail Sector

Retail consistently ranks among the top five most cyber-attacked industries. This paper uncovers external DNS management as a critical vulnerability, highlights retailers’ gaps in adherence to IT security frameworks, and shares best practices for mitigation. It also introduces our first-ever 2024 Retail DNS Security Benchmark Report.

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DNS Security in the Healthcare Sector

Healthcare became the most cyber-attacked industry in 2023, overtaking banking. This paper highlights external DNS management as a critical yet overlooked vulnerability, explores gaps in adherence to IT security frameworks, and offers actionable best practices. It also features our first-ever 2024 Healthcare DNS Security Benchmark Report.

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M&A Guide to Assess and Consolidate Domain Assets and DNS Networks

Assessing and consolidating domains and DNS providers are crucial “pre” and “post” M&A deal priorities. In corporate acquisitions, you’re not only buying a company’s assets – you’re also buying their cyber security risk.  In this paper we discuss how due diligence teams can maximize deal value and mitigate post-close risk and cost.

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Webinars

Webinars to inform enterprise teams on best practices related to the management of Corporate Domains, DNS, and TLS Certificates as well as the emerging Brand Top Level Domain paradigm shift.
Healthcare: DNS Security Vulnerabilities Discovered and Solved

The high value of healthcare data, combined with legacy systems and siloed operations, makes managing infrastructure a formidable challenge. Ensuring compliance with various security frameworks over critical IT infrastructure, including external DNS, is essential. The external DNS underpins all digital operations.

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IT Director Pain & Compliance Risk

Join us to learn how your IT Director peers view and solve these problems. In this webinar, Authentic Web CEO Peter LaMantia will share what he’s learned from enterprise IT Directors and their teams.

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Brand Risk: External DNS Vulnerabilities Risk and Mitigation
Brand Risk: External DNS Vulnerabilities Risk and Mitigation

Peter will discuss the common problems that enterprise IT and InfoSec teams face to manage, secure, and ensure that change management compliance controls are in place over domains, DNS, and certificates.

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Case studies

Read the real life cases of large enterprise brands from a broad range of verticals that assessed their digital strategies and found room for major improvement. Domain and DNS management scenarios are covered that reveal issues very common to most organizations – along with the system improvements they implemented to improve their security, compliance and performance.
Major Global Bank

The Bank did not apply for their Brand TLD in ICANN’s 1st round. They lacked insights into strategies and business applications for a Brand TLD extension. They sought strategic guidance from subject matter experts and competitive intelligence related to use of domains. They also sought to establish best practices for domain policies & procedures.

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The CBC owns a corporate portfolio of several hundred domain names. They held their domains with a large corporate registrar and were looking for increased domain management capabilities, features and value. They also wanted to consolidate several DNS services both on legacy internal DNS systems and third party Managed DNS services.

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G Adventures Inc.

G Adventures owns a corporate portfolio of several hundred domain names, growing via acquisition. They’ve accumulated domains over the years. IT, digital marketing and business leadership registered domains without processes or systems. This led to a fragmented, hard-to-manage list of domains spread over numerous registrar vendors. It was time to clean up the mess.

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Blog

Enjoy a wide range of subject interest on digital brands, security, strategy and teamwork, all topical and relevant to the management of corporate domains and the DNS.
Top 10 Domain Pain Symptoms in the Enterprise

The IT Director is the one who receives the stress-inducing, “Critical”, “Urgent”, “ASAP”, “Priority 1”, “Production Critical”, “Revenue Impacting”, or “Brand Damaging” emails at all hours from the NOC because of a domain-related issue.

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The IT Director’s Story Domain and DNS Management

Over the past decades of domain, DNS and certificate management in the enterprise, there was and is a constant state of fuzzy ownership change. It is more the hot potato in IT where a lack of ownership has created a mess of hidden exposure to all but the technically curious. If you are an IT Director at a large organization, you will likely see yourself in this story.

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10 Predictions for 2024

At the end of every year, there are a flurry of prediction articles that we all like to read. Predictions hold the ‘promise of the possible’.

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Articles

Domains and the DNS are gaining prominence in the business and technology press. From digital disasters to stunning brand innovations, these are the stories we’re reading and sharing that guide us in the new TLD era.
Massive Domain Hijacking Campaign Used for Ad Fraud, Malvertising, Phishing Emails

Researchers at Guardio Labs have discovered a massive email ad fraud campaign based on thousands of hijacked domains and subdomains. Threat actors are carrying out SPF-hijacking to bypass spam security by leveraging legitimate domains to send millions of emails for malvertising and click scams for at least 16 months.

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Over 60,000 parked domains were vulnerable to AWS hijacking

Domain registrar MarkMonitor had left more than 60,000 parked domains vulnerable to domain hijacking.

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DNS Attacks on the Rise, Costing $1 Million Each
DNS Attacks on the Rise, Costing $1 Million Each

According to new research, cyber-attacks using DNS channels to steal data, DDoS victims, and deploy malware have grown in volume and cost throughout the pandemic.

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