Cyveillance Releases Cyveillance Domain Manager
 

Cyveillance, a cyber intelligence company, today announced the release of Cyveillance Domain Manager, a comprehensive domain management system that enables users to centrally manage and monitor security threats posed by third-party domain registrations. The company states that the Cyveillance Domain Manager tracks the full life cycle of each potentially fraudulent domain, significantly reducing the costs related to tracking domain name churn, which results in the re-registering of over 1 million suspicious domain names everyday.

The company explained that domain name churn is enabled by an ICANN policy loophole that allows third parties, particularly registrars, to register a domain name and then return or 'drop' it for free within five days of the initial registration. This allows domain name abusers to test the domain name to determine how much traffic the name generates without making a financial commitment, a process often referred to as domain tasting. It adds that the five day grace period results in significant volumes of domain names being registered, returned, and then re-registered again.

It articulated that the Domain Manager is designed to classify new domain registrations, automatically isolating high risk registrations and providing ongoing monitoring to alert organizations when a domain gets used on a live malicious Web site. Further it claims that it greatly reduces the need for companies to monitor benign domain names that pose a low security risk, allowing organizations to focus resources on the highest impact brand offenses.

"The current domain registration environment enables criminals, pirates and unscrupulous advertisers to leverage a large number of domains without incurring any financial risk," said Panos Anastassiadis, CEO of Cyveillance. "The resulting churn in domain names places a significant enforcement burden on enterprises. Cyveillance Domain Manager provides our customers with an automated solution that allows them to more accurately prioritize their enforcement efforts on the domains that pose the most significant risk; greatly reducing the resources, time and expense of fighting fraudulent domains."