Category Archives: Press Releases

RAA TARGETS BETTER WHOIS DATA INCORPORATES IDEAS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT

WASHINGTON – The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) commends the work of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Registrars to bring more clarity, oversight, and enforcement to the domain name space with the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). “We are particularly pleased that the RAA includes a ‘Whois Accuracy Program Specification’ that

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.INFO SECURITY STANDARDS SERVE AS MODEL FOR THE INDUSTRY

WASHINGTON – The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) enthusiastically endorses Afilias’ new anti-abuse policy for the top-level domain (TLD) .INFO, aimed at fighting “the growing scourges of spam, phishing, and other Internet problems.” “.INFO shows a real commitment to policing the domain name space for bad actors by working aggressively with its registrars to

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27 Percent of U.S. Congressional Members’ Domain Names Used in Identity Squatting, CADNA Report Finds

WASHINGTON, September 26, 2012 – A report released today by the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) finds that 27 percent of congressional members’ domain names are used in identity squatting. Like businesses, members of Congress face the challenges of delivering authorized online content and protecting their names on the Internet. Overall, CADNA found that

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CADNA Supports Increased Rights Protection Mechanisms for ICANN’s New gTLD Program

WASHINGTON, September 11, 2012 – The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA), along with over fifty additional major, multinational companies, urges the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and other members of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to work with the ICANN Board to require

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