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Featured Article, February 14, 2022

DDoS Attacks (Distributed Denial of Service Attacks) flood websites or servers with traffic from many different sources in order to make a site unavailable. This form of DNS Abuse falls under the Denial of Service Attack (DoS Attack) category. It uses multiple sources to blocks users from accessing a site. However, not all service errors are the result of attack behaviors and can occur if a website is overwhelmed by non-malicious traffic as well.

In the News

On February 2, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided to reject Vox Populi registry's gTLD Trademark registration of .sucks.
On February 7, the ICANN 73 Prep Week Schedule was announced. Registration is open, and necessary to view schedule details.
On February 10, Verisign announced it would raise prices on .com domains from the wholesale price of $8.39 to $8.97 on September 1, 2022.
On February 14, Richard Kirkendall, CEO of Namecheap announced that it had acquired a controlling interest in Namebase.io, a top registry for Handshake domains.

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