83% of the world’s population is estimated to be non-English speaking, yet for years they have been unable to communicate in their own languages via Web and e-mail addresses.

Hosting companies face many challenges today, from differentiating their services in a crowded market with decreasing margins, to an increasing pressure to defend against growing sets of attacks against their infrastructure. As more and more services drift into the cloud, up-time is becoming one of the most critical factors for customers choosing a web host. A hosting company’s record of reliability can often be the deciding factor for a customer to choose one service over another.

Afilias Managed DNS Services will be at Booth #622 at the 2010 Comptia Breakway Conference.  Join us in San Antonio to learn how to ensure 100% up-time reliabililty for your web presence with Afilias' DNS.  Afilias VP, John Kane will be speaking as part of the "Security in the Cloud" Panel to be held on August 12th at 11am.

Over the last three years, the Anti-Phishing Working Group’s semiannual Global Phishing Survey has become a widely cited source of information about the state of phishing and its place in the Internet landscape. Afilias’ Director of Domain Security, Greg Aaron, has been co-authoring these reports with Rod Rasmussen of Internet Identity, with the goal to show the community what phishers are doing and how anti-abuse measures are effective.

Afilias' Desiree Miloshevic will be chairing this panel discussion entitled 'How long will the Internet remain a level playing field?' on Net neutrality at the University of Surrey, Guildforde. Networking and refreshments at 19.00 with the debate starting at 19.30. Visit the Web link to register for this free event!

On March 24, online encyclopedia giant Wikipedia went offline for more than 2 hours because of an overheating problem in one of their data centers.  Even though they had had a DNS failover procedure, it was broken. The result: millions of users could not access Wikipedia for hours.

This situation is unfortunate for Wikipedia, but it would be even more unfortunate if you were an online business that lost 2 hours of critical revenue. 

Recent years have brought a plague of attacks targeting your ability to do business online.  Whether in the form of distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), spam, phishing, or Facebook and Twitter scams.  Likely the most disturbing issue for e-commerce organizations has been the growing prevalence of DDoS attacks waged to interrupt their business, or worse, to extort money. 2010 has inaugurated a new type of attack, wearing an old disguise – hijacking your managed DNS by compromising your e-mail account.

Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) is where the messaging industry comes together to work against spam, malware, denial-of-service attacks, and other online exploitation. Greg Aaron, Afilias’s Director of Domain Security, will speak about domain industry security practices, including attack vectors that hackers use against registrants, registrars, and registries. 

 

Afilias is a sponsor of ICANN no. 37