Misspelling Domains in .au: A Growing Compliance Grey Area
For years, the playbook was simple: If you don’t own the typo, someone else will.
Registering misspellings of your brand has long been a standard defensive strategy, protecting against phishing,...
Corporate Domain Management: 8 Best Practices to Reduce Risk, Cost, and Complexity
Why Domain Management Is Now Business Critical
In today’s digital-first environment, corporate domain portfolios are...
GlobalBlock Expands to 780 Extensions: What This Means for Brands
The domain landscape is continuing to expand, but the way brands protect themselves hasn’t kept pace.With the latest update to GlobalBlock, coverage has increased to 780 domain extensions, including two of the most significant additions to date, .cn and .de. These are not...
Domain Industry 2026: What Brand Owners Need to Watch Closely
How the Domain Industry Is Evolving in 2026
At brandsec, we actively track global domain‑industry trends, so our...
Premium Domain Names: Strategic Digital Assets Not Just URLs
Premium Domains Are Strategic Digital Infrastructure
The reported USD $70 million sale of ai.com is more than a...
Top TLD Risk and Abuse Trends in 2025-2026
Phishing Domains Surge in 2025
Phishing and domain abuse continue to rise, and recent data from Interisle Phishing Landscape report 2025, confirms that...
The Role of Domains in Banking Login Scams
The Role of Domains in Banking Login Scams: Lessons for the next new gTLD round
Banks have spent years educating...
Protect Your Brand and Digital Identity with .kiwi
Block Impersonators with .kiwi
In today’s digital landscape, brand protection is more important than ever.The NZ Domain Name Commission’s latest Annual Report highlights a sharp rise in malicious activity...
Brand Protection vs Fraud-as-a-Service
Has brand protection kept up with fast moving and large clone website networks? Whether you’re in retail, banking, or government services, attackers can now deploy hundreds of convincing fake websites in hours — complete with stolen branding, payment or credential-harvesting...
Optimise Your Online Presence with Brandsec and Premium DNS
In today’s digital-first world, ensuring your domain name system (DNS) is fast, secure, and reliable is critical. Your DNS is the backbone of your online presence. But while DNS often works in the background, poor DNS management can lead to service outages, lost...
Registrar Hacking and why Registry Lock is so Important
Registrar hacking isn’t theoretical—it happens more often than most people realise. There are 2,800 ICANN Accredited Registrars, and the top ten retail Registrars (that manage over 250M domains) are targeted regularly – in most cases Registrars do a great job defending...
Why Domain Registrars Are Key to Stopping Fast Flux Phishing
A recent Dark Reading article highlighted the continued growth of fast flux phishing, an old tactic that’s been on the radar of enforcement professionals for years. Maybe a forgotten scam for many, those of us working in the phishing takedowns and cyber enforcement space are...