EuroDNS shares its takeaways from ICANN 86 in Seville, covering five active policy tracks: the DNS abuse associated domains working group, the long-running PPSAI privacy services programme, law enforcement data access via SSAD, the largely inconclusive AI and DNS abuse session, and the real-world limits of registrant verification as an abuse mitigation tool.

EuroDNS is calling on ICANN to commission a credible, independent DNS abuse report that accurately maps abuse across the full infrastructure stack and grounds future policy in evidence built with the industry, not around it.

Every year, Europe's Internet community gathers in a different city to wrestle with the same big question: how should the Internet be governed? That gathering is EuroDIG, and this year brought new angles like deepfakes, AI, and online abuse mitigation. Read on to find out more about this year's discussions from the newly elected chair of EURid registrar advisory board, our very own Chief Legal Officer, Luc Seufer. 

ICANN 85 in Mumbai dedicated 19 sessions to DNS Abuse Mitigation. This post covers what actually matters: why checking a few adjacent domain names requires a two-year policy process, why the host country's enforcement ambitions are misplaced, and what the ghost of the SSAD teaches us about scope creep.

Sometimes the internet produces stories that feel almost too perfect to be real. One of the most famous domain name disputes started in 2003 with a 17-year-old student, a clever pun, and one of the world’s largest tech companies.

When ICANN 84 gathered the global internet-governance community in Dublin last week, one issue quickly reclaimed the spotlight: DNS abuse. The topic resurfaced with force, underscoring ICANN’s renewed drive to reinforce security standards and strengthen accountability across the internet. Our legal expert Luc brings you the highlights from the latest forum.