The Domain Name Association (DNA), the Internet domain industry's trade association, undertook an effort in 2016 it named the Healthy Domains Initiative (HDI). It's an ambitious, self-motivated effort to build on the DNS' already secure and stable platform and meet select challenges head-on, before they develop.
After a year-long process of consultation with registries, registrars, law enforcement, civil society, child protection authorities, pharmaceutical experts, content providers and others, the HDI committee identified the program's first deliverable: a set of "healthy practices" that members may voluntarily adopt in order to address or prevent various issues that arise in namespace administration.
Read MoreThe HDI committee briefed DNA members on the final details of the plan during the NamesCon conference in Las Vegas in late January. Members also heard from companies with a successful track record of implementing voluntary measures to combat abuse, as a point of reference for how to move forward...
