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GDPR resources: basics & best practices

If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent the days since our first GDPR blog post thinking nonstop about the policy’s potential impacts on the domain world. Okay, maybe you have other things to do with your time… But luckily, there are a lot of great minds at work on this issue. This week, I’d like to […]

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The GDPR: what it is and why it matters to you

Update: March 6, 2018 Previously, we had announced plans to apply GDPR-related requirements and processes only to domains registered by EU-local individuals. We have since changed our approach and now plan to extend these heightened privacy and security requirements to all registrants and reseller partners. This streamlined solution ensures that our platform is secure and […]

Google and Symantec resolve Chrome browser trust issues

Update: February 8, 2018 This blog post is a follow-up to the information we published a few months ago regarding the Google-Symantec conundrum. Symantec and Google have agreed on a plan that requires Symantec to migrate certificate validation to a third party. In exchange, Google would ensure that the Chrome browser  continues to trust Symantec […]

System vulnerability surrounding first-level .UK domains

Last week we sent an email to all Enom resellers who have a .UK domain in their account letting them know that we had identified and patched a vulnerability issue that allowed for zero-confirmation first-level .UK domain transfers between Enom reseller accounts. It’s important to note that second-level .UK domains such as .co.uk and .org.uk […]

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auDA directs Enom to discontinue .au registrations for all Chinese resellers

Enom is no longer able to provide .au domain registrations to any reseller that is based in China. This follows a formal direction Tucows was given by auDA, the registry for the Australian top-level domain, .au. In a letter we received today, auDA is directing Tucows, under the terms of our accreditation agreement with auDA, […]