NetBeacon Institute
The NetBeacon Institute provides free tools and services to help the Internet community identify and report DNS Abuse, establish best practices, fund DNS research, and share data.
Focused on Reducing DNS Abuse
The Internet is a powerful agent for positive change. At the same time, there are those that use the Internet to achieve their own negative ends. The NetBeacon Institute exists to act against online DNS abuse, keeping the negative side of the public Internet in check to allow the positive side to flourish.
The NetBeacon Institute is tasked with driving outcomes-based initiatives that will create recommended practices, foster collaboration, and develop industry-shared solutions to combat the five areas of DNS Abuse: malware, botnets, phishing, pharming, and related spam.
PIR and The Institute
While progress on DNS Abuse has been made across the industry, not all registries and registrars have access to the same level of resources to combat DNS Abuse. Given this gap and a more general need for innovation, education, and collaboration on DNS Abuse across its many stakeholders, PIR founded the DNS Abuse Institute in 2021 in furtherance of its nonprofit mission. Renamed to the NetBeacon Institute in 2024, the Institute is fully funded and supported by PIR, and its mission to reduce DNS Abuse and empower the DNS Community aligns with PIR.