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ENISA Publishes Best Practices Guide on Deploying DNSSEC

Lauren Price - Fri, Mar 5th, 2010

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) just published a best practice guide on deploying DNSSEC.  This document was authored by a dream team of DNSSEC experts from organizations including ENISA, .SE, AUTH-NOC, Kirei, IKS-JENA, NLnet Labs, and Cisco. This best practices guide addresses DNSSEC policies, procedures and operational considerations from the perspective of information security managers. A must read!

Poker.org Sold for a Record $1 Million

Lauren Price - Tue, Feb 23rd, 2010

The sale of poker.org for $1M has been keeping the domain channels busy since news broke last week.  This sale marks the highest .ORG secondary market sale to date.  The million dollar sale is quite a jump from the next highest .org sales reported by Sedo --  engineering.org sold for $198,000, followed by sexe.org for $151,400 and date.org for $151,000.  The community is abuzz declaring this sale as a “Game Changer” for the .ORG extension in the secon

PIR Welcomes Kathy Kleiman as Director of Policy

Alexa Raad - Mon, Feb 22nd, 2010

I am thrilled to welcome  Kathy Kleiman, to our team and introduce her to the community as PIR’s Director of Policy.

.ORG Experiences Resilient Growth in 2009

Thuy LeDinh - Fri, Feb 19th, 2010

According to our second bi-annual “Dashboard” report, .ORG experienced resilient growth despite the economic impact of 2009 with the number of new .ORG domain registrations rising by a healthy 14 percent. What’s more is that the domain grew by 8.4 percent over 2008, reinforcing the strength and value of the world’s third largest gTLD.

Building A Community For Toyota Owners During The Recall

Thuy LeDinh - Mon, Feb 1st, 2010

The headlines for Toyota in recent weeks have not been good.  The recall of 11 models to repair sudden acceleration, including a ban on the sale of eight models, has put Toyota at an estimated $500 million in lost revenue per week.  The timing of this couldn’t be worse, as Toyota is faced with what could be their second straight annual loss when the final numbers are in for 2009.
The financial hit aside, Toyota is clearly in the midst of a public information challenge.

ICANN And Cybersecurity- Hot Topics At The First Ever .ORG Forum

Thuy LeDinh - Sat, Jan 30th, 2010

The numbers say it all: In 2009, there were 148,000 zombie computers (spammers, botnets, etc.) created per day, over 2.6 million known malicious code threats at the start of 2009, and by the end of the year, nearly 1 million new ones were created. In other words, to quote the illustrious Stewart Baker: “[The security threat] is worse than we even thought.”

2009: What Did We Really Learn?

Alexa Raad - Tue, Jan 19th, 2010

The beginning of every year is a time for introspection, an appraisal of the year that was, and planning for the year to come.  It is also a time to follow tradition and to recap the biggest news of the year.  But by now, I am guessing that we have all read our fair share about the people and events who have impacted the last 12 months.  But as we examine the “whats” of 2009 (i.e. what happened, who was involved, and what resulted) , we should set our focuses forward  by learning from yesterday and planning for tomorrow.

Using .ORG Directory to find Haiti relief organizations

Thuy LeDinh - Thu, Jan 14th, 2010

.ORG, The Public Interest Registry extends our deepest condolences to the millions of families, friends and neighbors affected by the horrific tragedy in Haiti. As we learn the extent of the earthquake’s devastation and continue with emergency assistance, the need for our continued support and humanitarian efforts is critical.

How Not to Develop Public Policy

David Maher - Tue, Jan 5th, 2010

Some of ICANN’s current proceedings on the introduction of new generic top level domains (gTLDs) provide a case study on how not to develop public policy. In particular, the Rights Protection Mechanism proceedings, with serious implications for trademark owners, have followed a course that does not correspond to the ideal of ICANN’s bottom-up, consensus-based processes for policy development. More importantly, these proceedings are effectively unilateral developments in international law without the benefit of treaties or international conventions.

Registry Stakeholder Group Comments on Latest ICANN Policies

David Maher - Tue, Dec 8th, 2009

During the past week, PIR has actively participated in several of the most important current policy proceedings at ICANN, and has joined in the comments filed by the Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG).

A brief summary of the issues, the comments, and the URLs for the full text, follows:

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