The French State and Afnic sign a new Agreement for the .fr management

The new Agreement between the State and Afnic comes into force on 1 July 2022.

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New training course dedicated to securing electronic messaging by the DNS

A new addition to the catalogue, this course is dedicated to securing email with the focus on DKIM, DMARC and SPF; three sender authentication protocols using the DNS.

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Lucile Ravasse appointed Afnic Communications Director

Lucile Ravasse has joined the Association’s Management Committee as Communications Director. Appointed to head up a 6-person team, Lucile Ravasse will develop communication and promotion surrounding Afnic, its offerings and its expertise.

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Applying the COMAR classifier to 35k unique phishing URLs

Here we focus on the application of the COMAR classifier to blacklisted URLs serving phishing pages. We study four selected characteristics of the domain names of malicious URLs and analyse their distribution across different types of top-level domain (TLD).

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SYRELI: trademark vs. a pet’s name

Cybersquatting is a practice consisting of registering a domain name corresponding to a brand or company name with a view to re-selling it, thereby profiting from its renown, or causing it harm.

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Mid-term progress report on the DiNS project and Afnic’s work

This project, resulting from our response to the Agence Nationale de la Recherche’s 2019 generic call for projects, brings together players from the industry and the academia in France: the Grenoble Computer Science Laboratory (LIG) (project coordinator), Acklio, Bouygues Telecom, IMT Atlantique and Afnic. The objective is to break the silos of the Internet of Things (IoT) networks and enable interoperability based on the DNS infrastructure and its recent developments.