“New” TLDs 10 years later — a retrospective
It has been ten years since the first of the custom TLDs began their sunrise on the road to general availability. Since then, hundreds of…
Category: Consumer Reports
Google gets Goggle (.com that is!)
It’s a typo that most of us have made at least once, but Domain Name Wire is reporting that Google’s latest acquisition will ensure that…
How does SSL work?
The SSL Store has just published an excellent primer on what SSL is and how it works, starting with the acronym itself: Secure Sockets Layer.…
Signs of Compromise: How to tell if your site has been hacked
The SSL Store has published a guide exploring the digital fingerprints left whenever a website has been hacked or compromised. This guide comes in the…
How spoofed emails can evade SPF
Welivesecurity.com provides an excellent explainer on the nuances of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and how poor implementation can leave domains vulnerable to exploits. They…
Donuts Rebranding to Identity Digital
The domain registrar formerly known as Donuts has announced that it is rebranding to Identity Digital. The rebrand coincides with Donuts’ acquisition of Afilias late…
GoDaddy Purchases Dan.com
GoDaddy has put out a press release indicating that they have just acquired Dan.com, a domain name sales platform. According to GoDaddy, the objective of…
Some simple measures for cyber safety
Cybersecurity is something that everyone, from big businesses to individuals simply using the internet, need to take seriously. To that end, DNN would like to…
Friend… or scam?
The Canadian Securities Association is warning its users that online scammers are turning to social media applications, particularly dating and relationship apps, to try to…
What is Canada doing about the dark side of social media?
As part of their ongoing investigation into the role of social media in Canadian society, Global News is reporting on both the actions an inactions…