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The reading of a domain name

A domain name is main­ly used to iden­ti­fy the address of a web­site and for the e‑mail sys­tem. Easy to iden­ti­fy, mem­o­rize and trans­mit, it effec­tive­ly replaces IP address­es that are fas­tid­i­ous to use and impos­si­ble to mem­o­rize in num­bers…

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Register a domain name

The domain name is the first link between the web user and your web­site. It is thanks to the domain name that you are found on the Inter­net, that you are vis­i­ble, that your iden­ti­ty is dis­played and that you devel­op your busi­ness on the net …

Operations on domain names

A domain name is main­ly used to iden­ti­fy the address of a web­site and for the e‑mail sys­tem. Easy to iden­ti­fy, mem­o­rize and trans­mit, it effec­tive­ly replaces IP address­es that are fas­tid­i­ous to use and impos­si­ble to mem­o­rize in num­bers …

SEO of domain names

Search Engine Opti­miza­tion (SEO) is a set of tech­niques aimed at opti­miz­ing the vis­i­bil­i­ty of a web page in the search results. For your posi­tion­ing in search engines and for your com­mu­ni­ca­tion, the domain name is of sig­nif­i­cant impor­tance …

The protection of your domain names

Domain name is the first link between the web user and your web­site. It is thanks to the domain name that you are found on the Inter­net, that you are vis­i­ble, that your iden­ti­ty is dis­played and that you devel­op your busi­ness on the net. It is a dig­i­tal asset of your busi­ness…

The lifespan of a domain name

You are not, strict­ly speak­ing, the own­er of a domain name, you sim­ply have a right to use it, which trans­lates into an annu­al fee that can be renewed indef­i­nite­ly or ter­mi­nat­ed in case of infringe­ment. As soon as you no longer pay the annu­al fee required to main­tain it…

Domain names: which procedure?

Names’ hold­ers must pro­tect their brands and domain names against fraud and abuse just as they would pro­tect any oth­er valu­able asset. The infringe­ment of your domain name weak­ens the strength of your brand …

Data theft of a website

Every day, new cyber­at­tacks are threat­en­ing com­pa­nies’ defense sys­tems, and fur­ther weak­en rela­tions with web users, par­tic­u­lar­ly on e‑commerce web­sites. Iden­ti­ty theft and data theft have become com­mon …

Abusive domain names registrations

The dig­i­tal world is in per­pet­u­al evo­lu­tion and every days, new domain names are reg­is­tered around the world.
Among these new reg­is­tra­tions, some can poten­tial­ly affect your noto­ri­ety, your activ­i­ty, and your results…

Cyberattacks — Operating Mode

Every day, new cyber attacks under­mine the defense sys­tems of com­pa­nies, and fur­ther weak­en net­works, cyber­at­tacks fol­low one anoth­er expo­nen­tial­ly.

DDoS Attacks

Every day, new cyber attacks under­mine the defense sys­tems of com­pa­nies, and fur­ther weak­en net­works, cyber­at­tacks fol­low one anoth­er expo­nen­tial­ly

SSL / TLS certificates

An SSL (Secure Sock­et Lay­er) or TLS (Trans­port Lay­er Secu­ri­ty) cer­tifi­cate is a dig­i­tal cer­tifi­cate that authen­ti­cates a serv­er (most often a web serv­er) and encrypts the data exchanged with it…

UDRP procedure

Estab­lished on ICANN’s pro­pos­al, the UDRP (Uni­form Domain-Name Dis­pute Res­o­lu­tion Pol­i­cy) extra-judi­cial pro­ce­dure allows to sanc­tion obvi­ous and indis­putable infringe­ments of a trade­mark right …

Syreli procedure

Placed under the aegis of AFNIC, this pro­ce­dure allows to sanc­tion obvi­ous and indis­putable infringe­ments of a trade­marks right result­ing from the reg­is­tra­tion by third par­ties of iden­ti­cal or sim­i­lar domain names …

URS procedure

The URS (Uni­form Rapid Sus­pen­sion Sys­tem) pro­ce­dure is the lat­est domain name dis­pute res­o­lu­tion pro­ce­dure imple­ment­ed by ICANN for new exten­sions…

DNS resolution of domain names

Human beings have a very bad mem­o­ry for num­ber sequences. How­ev­er, com­put­ers and servers com­mu­ni­cate with each oth­er by iden­ti­fy­ing them­selves through an IP address, which is a sequence of num­bers or a mix of num­bers that is very com­plex to mem­o­rize and dif­fer­en­ti­ate…

Who manages the Internet?

Find out in this 5 min­utes to under­stand doc­u­ment who man­ages the Inter­net, what are the roles of ICANN, reg­istries and reg­is­trars.

Domain names extensions

The “Top Lev­el Domains” also called TLD or exten­sions, are defined by the IANA (Inter­net Assigned Num­bers Author­i­ty) which depends on ICANN since 1998…

DNS cache poisoning

The DNS (Domain Name Sys­tem) is a key ser­vice of the Inter­net. It is a giant, hier­ar­chi­cal and dis­trib­uted direc­to­ry that asso­ciates IP address­es with domain names that are eas­i­er to …

Monitoring solutions

A domain name is not sta­t­ic, it evolves. It can be inac­tive, asso­ci­at­ed to a web­site, to a mes­sag­ing ser­vice. The web­site can be oper­at­ed, deac­ti­vat­ed or its con­tent can change …

Phishing as a Service (PhaaS)

It’s an explod­ing phe­nom­e­non in the cyberthreat land­scape and one that con­tin­ues to get armed with tools that make it ever more pros­per­ous…


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