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topDNS Best Practice Series Part 9:Navigating Web3 Domains
On 2 April 2025, Freename & eco’s topDNS Initiative hosted the ninth in a series of topDNS Best Practice webinars. In the Navigating Web3 Domains webinar, Paolo Domenighetti, CTO of Freename, gave an introduction to the emerging landscape of Web3 domains, highlighting their differences from legacy domains, their potential use…
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topDNS Best Practice Series: Best Practices for Handling Abuse Reports and Takedowns
Spamhaus, Team Internet, and eco’s topDNS Initiative hosted the eighth in a series of topDNS Best Practice webinars, which highlighted the domain name industry’s efforts to combat DNS abuse. The session featured Spamhaus and Team Internet, who explored critical issues and solutions surrounding abuse management and domain takedowns: During the…
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“Take-Down Instead of Blocking” – eco Releases New Explainer Video With the topDNS Initiative on Effectively Combating Illegal Internet Content
The Internet is an integral part of our daily lives, driving efficiency in various areas, fostering the development of cutting-edge technologies, and connecting people worldwide. However, alongside these positive effects, the Internet is also misused for criminal activities, such as distributing illegal content, making online threats, and harming Internet users…
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topDNS Best Practice Webinar: A partnership to empower domain name registries to disrupt CSAM
Public Interest Registry (PIR), Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) & eco’s topDNS Initiative held the seventh in a series of topDNS best practice webinars highlighting what the domain name industry is doing to fight DNS abuse. In February 2024, Public Interest Registry, the US non-profit organisation that operates the .ORG top-level…
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topDNS Best Practice Series: Addressing, evidencing, and mitigating abuse in Web3
The CleanDNS, Freename & eco’s topDNS Initiative held the sixth in a series of topDNS best practice webinars to highlight what the domain name industry is doing to fight DNS abuse. Chris Lewis-Evans, Director of Governmental Engagement and Internet Abuse Mitigation at CleanDNS, and Federico Costa, Co-founder and CTO of…
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topDNS Best Practice Series: DNSAI Compass Dashboards – Benchmarking the prevalence and persistence of malware and phishing for registries and registrars
The DNS Abuse Institute & eco’s topDNS Initiative held the fifth in a series of topDNS best practice webinars to showcase what the domain name industry is doing to fight DNS abuse. Rowena Schoo, Director of Programs and Policy, at the DNS Abuse Institute presented on DNSAI Compass – an…
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topDNS Best Practice Series: Recognising Good Practice in the DNS – Towards Positive, Data-Driven Policy Discussions
The DNS Reasearch Federation & eco’s topDNS Initiative held the fourth in a series of topDNS best practice webinars, showcasing what the domain name industry is doing to fight DNS abuse. The aim of the webinar, which took place on 19 September, was to determine the rates of abuse and…
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topDNS Best Practice Series: How to Investigate Online Abuse with Free Tools
Realtime Register & eco’s topDNS Initiative recently held a third series of topDNS best practice webinars, showcasing what the domain name industry is doing to fight DNS abuse. The aim of the webinar, which took place on 10 August, was to enable staff to conduct investigations using free tools. This…
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topDNS Best Practice Series: Standards and Frameworks for Evidencing Abuse Online
CleanDNS & eco’s topDNS Initiative invite you to the second in a series of topDNS best practice webinars to showcase what the domain name industry is doing to fight DNS abuse. Fighting abuse online is first and foremost a matter of taking appropriate action, taken by the appropriate party, taken…
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topDNS Best Practice Series: How to reduce Abuse through Quality
Public Interest Registry (PIR), Realtime Register & eco’s topDNS Initiative invite you to the first in a series of topDNS best practice webinars to showcase what the domain name industry is doing to fight DNS abuse. In 2019, Public Interest Registry (PIR), the registry for the .ORG top level domain,…
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Online Training – DNS Abuse: Fact or Fiction?
What is DNS abuse actually and why should the issue concern all Internet infrastructure providers? Depending on whom you ask, you get different answers as to the size of the problem and who should take measures to combat it. At it-sa, Europe’s largest event for cybersecurity, Thomas Rickert discussed these…
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Online Training: OSINT – Fighting DNS Abuse (DNS Abuse for LEAs)
This course discusses best practices in handling DNS abuse and various tools to identify such abuses related to DNS. The course also covers how law enforcement authorities can engage with ICANN. The target audience for this training are Law Enforcement personnel who are involved in handling abuses related to Internet…
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Webinar: NetBeacon – A service to standardize abuse reports
24 May 2022 – For those impacted by DNS Abuse, reporting it is difficult, requires technical understanding, and has no standards across the DNS ecosystem. The DNS Abuse Institute is working to simplify the process with the upcoming launch of it’s NetBeacon service. The NetBeacon service is being built by…
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Virtual Workshop: DNS for Internet Service Providers
ICANN’s Office of the CTO offers the course, “DNS for ISPs”, a fast-paced, intense two-hour webinar covering myriad topics of DNS configuration and DNS security and monitoring intended for network engineers who are operating a service provider network.
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Workshop: DNS Ecosystem Security
During this event, we will discuss the DNS ecosystem: its vulnerabilities as highlighted by big events, some mitigations to thwart attacks, and the future of DNS security in a world filled with miniature connected devices. This course will cover the best practices in securing the overall ecosystem of DNS, from…
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Virtual Workshop: DNSSEC 101
This webinar will cover the fundamentals of what DNSSEC is, why it is important, and will give an overview of all its technical components. You will learn about the DNS resource record types that DNSSEC uses, as well as information about how DNSSEC uses cryptographic signing keys to keep our…
