Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit best known for overseeing the .org top-level domain, launched a centralized resource to help stomp out domain name system (DNS) abuse Wednesday morning.
The DNS Abuse Institute will seek registry and registrar collaboration to prevent various forms of DNS villainy – spam, botnets, phishing and pharming. Former Tucows head of policy Graeme Bunton will serve as the inaugural director.
“We’ve become painfully aware of the impediments of moving from talk to action on DNS abuse and enabling people to really begin tackling the problem,” Bunton told SC Media.
“Those impediments have been things like industry economics, lack of best practices, and a lack of trusted spaces for collaboration.”
The DNS Abuse Institute, he hopes, will become a centralized resource for registries and registrars to turn to when they detect problems and a place to develop the kinds of innovations impossible for single companies to design on their own, in the low profit margin registry industry.
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