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Featured Updates - The Domain Name System

ICANN's job is to ensure the stability, security, and resiliency of the Domain Name System (DNS). The stability and security of the DNS is undermined in a DNS Abuse variety of ways, which ICW Editor Jessica has been working to catalog. In addition, she has been focusing on responses to abuse from ICANN, other institutions, and government agencies.

The stability of the DNS is the central focus of SSAC, and is also enshrined in the ICANN Bylaws in multiple places. ICANN's performance of this critical task is also periodically reviewed as mandated by Article 4.6 of the bylaws. The First Security, Stability, and Resilience Review took place in 2010, while the Second Security, Stability, and Resilience Review is ongoing.

Trends in Cybersecurity, IT, and Internet Governance

In late spring 2021...

The ICANN Domain Name System Symposium (IDS), ICANN and GDD's annual joint meeting on DNS security, took place from May 25 to 27. The symposium focused on risk tradeoffs, how the threat landscape has evolved, measurements, and mitigation measures.

The IGF USA conference was held in mid-July, addressing a wide range of issues around Internet governance, interoperability, and accessibility for all. ICANNWiki board member Dustin Loup, Executive Director of ISOC DC and co-chair of IGF USA, co-hosted the welcome session.

The digital economy SaaS Platform NetObjex began its official collaboration with Zortag to fight NFT counterfeiting.^[1]

The IP management technology provider Anaqua announced its acquisition of SeeUnity, which provides API-related software.^[2]

Spy novelist and foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius worries about Russia trying to oversee Internet governance as the nation doubles down on its lobbying for candidate Rashid Ismailov to head the U.N.’s International Telecommunications Union.^[3] Meanwhile, the far-right multilanguage newspaper The Epoch Times warns that the Chinese Communist Party has developed a “plan to control the Internet.”^[4]

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[1] NetObjex & Zortag Collab Press Release

[2] Anaqua acquires SeeUnity Press Release

[3] Opinion: Russia’s plot to control the Internet, WashPost

[4] Leaked Docs About China’s Plan, CircleID

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-[[file:Virtual meeting icon.png|100px|left]] '''''[[ICANN 71]]''''' <br/>'''The [[ICANN Meetings|meeting]] was held virtually from June 14 to 17, 2021.''' Sessions during ICANN 71 were held during working hours in The Hague, Netherlands (CEST/UTC+2, Amsterdam/Paris). View archived session recordings and materials at [https://71.schedule.icann.org the ICANN 71 site] (login/registration required) <br/>
+<br/>'''[[ICANN]]'s job is to ensure the stability, security, and resiliency of [[The Domain Name System|the Domain Name System]] (DNS). The stability and security of the DNS is undermined in a [[DNS Abuse]] variety of ways, which ICW Editor [[Jessica Alice Rivers|Jessica]] has been working to catalog. In addition, she has been focusing on [[DNS Abuse Responses|responses to abuse]] from ICANN, other institutions, and government agencies.
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-# Prep Week is over: 1-3 June 2021, and everyone is prepared for next week.'''✓'''<br/>
-# ICANN 71 concluded on Thursday, June 17. Archived sessions are available now.'''✓'''
+The stability of the DNS is the central focus of [[SSAC]], and is also enshrined in the [[ICANN Bylaws]] in multiple places. ICANN's performance of this critical task is also [[ICANN Reviews#Specific Reviews|periodically reviewed]] as mandated by Article 4.6 of the bylaws. The [[First Security, Stability, and Resilience Review]] took place in 2010, while the [[Second Security, Stability, and Resilience Review]] is ongoing.
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 In late spring 2021...
 * The [[ICANN Domain Name System Symposium]] ([https://www.icann.org/ids IDS]), ICANN and [[GDD]]'s annual joint meeting on DNS security, took place from May 25 to 27. The symposium focused on risk tradeoffs, how the threat landscape has evolved, measurements, and mitigation measures.
-* [[Ransomware#Darkside|Darkside]] carried out a ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, prompting fears over East Coast gas shortages, which led to gas hoarding and panic buying in the South. The attack also highlighted a vulnerability in the country's cyberinfrastructure, leading President Joe Biden to issue an executive order on strengthening [[Cybersecurity]] in the US. Colonial Pipeline paid nearly $5 million to Darkside to restore its disabled computer network, of which the U.S. Department of Justice was able to trace and seize 63.7 Bitcoins (US$2.3 million as of 06/07/2021).<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/us/politics/pipeline-attack.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage Pipeline Attack Follow-up, NY Times]</ref>
+* The [https://www.igfusa.us/igf-usa-2021/ IGF USA conference] was held in mid-July, addressing a wide range of issues around Internet governance, interoperability, and accessibility for all. ICANNWiki board member [[Dustin Loup]], Executive Director of [[ISOC DC]] and co-chair of IGF USA, co-hosted the welcome session.
 * The digital economy [[SaaS]] Platform [[NetObjex]] began its official collaboration with [[Zortag]] to fight [[NFT]] counterfeiting.<ref>[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/netobjex-partners-with-zortag-for-anti-counterfeiting-and-tracking-of-assets-for-the-digital-economy-301281848.html NetObjex & Zortag Collab Press Release]</ref>