DNS abuse has been occurring since the early days of the Internet, and now it is affecting the daily lives of many Internet users around the world. Therefore, DNS abuse must be resolved to provide the people of the world a safer and more stable Internet.

Voluntary Trusted Notifier arrangements are a relied upon way for registries and registrars to help address DNS abuse. ccTLD and gTLD registries TWNIC and DotAsia recently joined forces to co-develop a Trusted Notifier Anti-Phishing Fast Track Mechanism as part of their commitment to combat growing cybersecurity concerns. Besides sharing their approach in this collaboration, this session also aims to explore how the wider APAC community could collaborate with one another to further this effort.

Over the years, DNS has been a target by cybercriminals not only for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, but also phishing. Phishing, if successful, can be used as a launch pad for more complex methods like ransomware and business email compromise (BEC).