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− | '''2020 in Review'''
| + | *[[J-P Voillequé]] and [[Jessica Alice Rivers]] joined ICANNWiki as Content Editors on December 1, 2020. |
− | *[[ICANN]] announced that all 1,195 generic top-level domains ([[gTLD]]s) have deployed Domain Name System Security Extensions ([[DNSSEC]]). | + | *J-P has been updating the main page, the [[ICANNWiki:Community portal|community portal]], and the [[RSSAC]] article. To the left, you can read an excerpt from that article about the findings from the most recent [[RSSAC#RSSAC review| RSSAC review]]. |
− | *[[WHOIS]] replacement inched forward.
| + | *Jessica has been working on filling in some of the blanks on ICW by fleshing out articles on some of the newer or lesser-known aspects of ICANN. Check out, for instance, the article on [[ATLAS]]. |
− | *The government of Niue launched proceedings with ICANN to reclaim [[.nu]] as its [[ccTLD]].
| + | *If you want to know how you can help, check out [[ICANNWiki:Community portal|Articles Wanted]] and [[Articles needed|Updates Needed]]. If you haven't already, [[ICANNWiki:Community portal#Create Account|creat an account]]. |
− | *[[ICANN Board]] withheld consent for a change of control of [[Public Interest Registry]] from [[Internet Society]] to [[Ethos Capital]]. | |
− | *[[GoDaddy]] Acquired (in chronological order) [[Over]], [[Uniregistry]], [[Neustar]], [[Skyverge|SkyVerge]], and [[Poynt]].
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− | *[[Donuts]] acquired [[Afilias]].
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− | *COVID-19 made working from home the norm, accelerating [[DNS Abuse|cyberattacks]] and the difficulty of managing [[cybersecurity]]. For instance, many employees at [[GoDaddy]], currently the world's largest domain registrar and web-hosting company, recently failed the company's controversial [[phishing]] email test, and [[WIPO]] announced that it had registered its 50,000th [[cybersquatting]] case, contributing to an 11% jump in reported incidents from 2019. | |
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