Category: News

Nameshield signs up the Paris Call in order to actively contribute to the Internet’s stability

Just one year ago, in the context of the first Paris Peace Forum, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, launched the Paris Call for trust and security in cyberspace. This call is a political declaration aiming to express a mobilization on the stability in the cyberspace and strengthens the efforts of the international community and many actors involved in the digital security issues. This text reminds some principles that we think are fundamental, like the application of the international ... Read More

Advices on how to change the domain name without losing its referencing

Image source: DiggityMarketing via Pixabay During a rebranding for marketing purposes, in the context of a merger or an acquisition for example, a company can change its website’s domain name. At the search engines’ level, it is all the pages that change, as if this was a brand new website. Therefore, how not to lose the work done on the SEO and make a successful transition, in particular if the website is old? In the case of a rather old website with an optimal referencing on the exis... Read More

[New gTLD] Launch of .NEW by Google

Image source: 377053 via Pixabay Following the launch of .APP, .PAGE, and .DEV among others, Google (Charleston Road Registry), launches the new extension .NEW in Sunrise period as of October 15, 2019. Conditions for registration of a .NEW In order to use a .NEW domain name, you will need to acquire an SSL certificate and deploy HTTPS. For reminder, the .NEW extension is included on the HSTS pre-upload list, requiring HTTPS protocol on all .NEW domain names (more details in the article... Read More

The alarming Kaspersky report: nine times more attacks aiming connected objects than in 2018

Image source: TheDigitalArtist via Pixabay Last October 15, Kaspersky, the antivirus software company, published an edifying report about the volume of cyberattacks directly aiming connected objects. Although the industry expected that this new generation of objects would be directly targeted by cyberattacks, the increase in the cyberattacks number is alarming and lets easily imagine the security flaws that the connected objects present. According to the estimation presented by Kaspers... Read More

New eligibility criteria for .EU

Image source: OpenClipart-Vectors via Pixabay As of October 19, 2019, internationally-based EU citizens can now register .EU or .ею domain names. The .EU is the country code top level domain for the European Union. More than 3.6 million registrations spread out across Europe make this TLD a popular extension. Initially, this extension is only reserved to companies and individuals residing within EU and EEA member states. However in order to meet the needs of an ever-changing digital envir... Read More

ccTLDs news : .AR domain name registrations for Argentina are opened

Image source: Mampu via Pixabay Argentina now offers the possibility to register .AR domain names. Until now, it was only possible to register third level domain names particularly in .COM.AR. Here are the launching periods planned: Sunrise period – From 11/09/2019 to 09/11/2019 Priority to holders of domain names registered in the zones .com.ar, .net.ar, .org.ar, .int.ar, .tur.ar, before December 1st, 2015 and in effect at August 27, 2019. At the end of this period, if only one ... Read More

The domain name is an integral intangible asset

Essential key element to any dematerialized data flow exchange, the domain name became a strategic intangible asset of great value. Depending on the academic works, there is a real correlation between the intangible assets’ quality and the companies’ economic performance. Identifying and valuating domain names becomes necessary for the financial director. Explanations in La revue de la Société Française des Analystes Financiers – SFAF (the journal of the French Society of Financial Analysts) of... Read More

Satori Botnet: The hacker facing up to 10 years imprisonment did not act alone

Image source: TheDigitalArtist via Pixabay We now know more about the cyberpirate, Nexus Zeta, whose real name is Kenneth Currin Schuchman, who distinguished himself with the creation of the Satori botnet. Pleading guilty to the charges regarding Satori botnet creation, his confessions describe the implementation of this attack using IoT flaws. For reminder, a botnet is a set of infected computers remotely controlled by a cybercriminal. The machines that belong to a botnet are often ca... Read More

50 years after Arpanet, the Internet’s ancestor

Image source: geralt via Pixabay On October 29, 1969 UCLA sends the very first e-message to Stanford Research Institute through Arpanet network (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) laying the foundation for today’s networked world. Arpanet, the Internet’s precursor  Arpanet is the first data transfer network developed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which belonged to the U.S. Defense Department. The first Arpanet node was set up at UCLA on August 30, 19... Read More

Soon a maximum duration of one year for SSL certificates?

What is happening? The industry actors plan to reduce the lifetime of SSL/TLS certificates, allowing the HTTPS display in browsers, to 13 months, i.e. almost half of the present lifetime of 27 months, in order to improve security. Google through the CA/Browser Forum has indeed proposed this modification, approved by Apple and a Certification Authority, making it eligible to vote. During the next CA/B Forum meetings, if the vote is accepted, the modification of the requirements will co... Read More