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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Security researchers have attributed a wave of subdomain hijacking attacks to a threat actor known as Hazy Hawk, which has targeted major organisations globally through abandoned cloud resources.

In this blog we discuss dangling DNS and how if left unresolved, an attacker can mar the reputation of a victim company.

Threat actors have hijacked over 70,000 domains, including known brands and government entities, because of failed domain ownership verification.