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Nearly 90% of the internet’s generic top-level domain (gTLD) names do not have identifying contact information in the Registration Data Directory Services (RDDS) system, according to a report by Interisle Consulting Group. Interisle researchers examined the registration data of 3,000 domain names and visited the domains’ websites to see if the registrants were identified. Even after manually examining the websites of the domains in the study, the registrants of about two-thirds of the gTLD domain names could not be identified. According to the study, the use of privacy mechanisms has dramatically shifted since 2018, when the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...
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Becoming a ubiquitous security requirement took more than a decade, but two-factor authentication is far from new.
Internet Trends and Domain Name Registrations
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