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Phishing, slamming and other fraudulent e-mails: stay alert during the summer holidays! 8 July 2020
Every year, the summer holidays often announce the upsurge of fraudulent e-mails mass campaigns. During annual holidays, cybercriminals try to profit from these periods, when the vigilance is sometimes lowering, to launch phishing e-mails. What are phishing and slamming? Phishing is used by cybercriminals to obtain personal information in order to commit an identity theft. […]
New document available on the Nameshield’s website: “5 minutes to understand – Operations on domain names” 7 July 2020
Domain names are subject to various operations. The modalities for these operations may vary according to the extensions and the rules set up by the registries. Find in this “5 minutes to understand” document, available for download on the Nameshield’s website, the different operations on domain names. DOWNLOAD
Booking.com, a generic term turning into a brand? 3 July 2020
A trademark must be “distinctive”, which is why no one can register a generic term as a trademark. However, a decision of the US Supreme Court on June 30, 2020 allows Booking.com to register its domain name as a trademark. If for USPTO (U.S Patent and Trademark Office), “booking” is a generic term, and adding […]
The importance of reverse DNS 18 June 2020
Reverse DNS is often unknown to domain name managers, especially when the names are hosted by major hosting companies. Reverse DNS allows you to resolve from an IP address to an FQDN. This is the exact opposite of the classic use of DNS, which associates domain names to IP addresses. The reverse DNS allows to […]