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  <dc:date>2026-09-10T15:51:00+00:00</dc:date>


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    <title><![CDATA[The Reporting Gap: What Happens Between a DNS Abuse Complaint and a Takedown]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[DNS abuse enforcement can stop abusive domains and drive systemic registrar reforms, but reporting barriers, inconsistent response times, and poorly documented complaints leave many phishing sites active before actionable cases ever reach enforcement.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-09-10T08:51:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Caribbean-Born Niel Harper Joins ICANN Board, Sets Out Priorities in Q&amp;A]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Barbados-born cybersecurity specialist Niel Harper joins ICANN's board in October, aiming to strengthen Latin American and Caribbean participation, improve DNS security and abuse mitigation, and expand developing-economy access to the next gTLD round.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-09-10T08:42:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[ICANN Accountability Without gTLD Remedies Is Just Documentation]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Past gTLD disputes show applicants can win ICANN accountability rulings without obtaining the contested string, raising a critical question for 2026 applicants about whether expanded review mechanisms can deliver meaningful remedies.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-09-09T12:55:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[15th Registration Operations Workshop, September 29, 2026, 13:00 - 17:00 UTC]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The 15th Registration Operations Workshop convenes domain name and DNS professionals September 29 for technical sessions on mTLS, RPKI, DNS resilience, delegations, DNSSEC, registrar concentration, dispute proceedings and alternative naming systems.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-09-07T07:59:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[When a Link Becomes a Border: The Quiet Geopolitics of Internet Access]]></title>
    <link>https://circleid.com/posts/when&#45;a&#45;link&#45;becomes&#45;a&#45;border&#45;the&#45;quiet&#45;geopolitics&#45;of&#45;internet&#45;access</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[A LinkedIn short-link anomaly in Iran reveals how sanctions, corporate compliance and geolocation controls can translate geopolitical boundaries into infrastructure-level restrictions, creating an Internet that remains globally connected while becoming functionally unequal.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-09-05T11:15:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Satellite Collisions Rise as Earth&#8217;s Orbits Grow Crowded]]></title>
    <link>https://circleid.com/posts/satellite&#45;collisions&#45;rise&#45;as&#45;earths&#45;orbits&#45;grow&#45;crowded</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Rapid satellite growth is raising collision risks as orbital debris accumulates, avoidance maneuvers multiply, and solar storms could disable spacecraft, exposing the absence of effective international governance for increasingly crowded orbits.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-09-05T10:36:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Effects of AI Expansion on Testing Models and Infrastructure]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[AI workloads are exposing the limits of traditional network planning and testing, pushing operators toward better traffic visibility, workload-aware policies and production-like testing before adding capacity to infrastructure they may not fully understand.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-09-02T08:56:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Proposed New DNS Resource Record Types for AI Agent Discovery]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[For more than three decades, domain names have served as a foundational identity layer for internet applications. Initially used to identify early network services such as TELNET, FTP, and email, they later became essential to web browsing and a growing range of online services.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-09-01T09:03:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[From Forgotten to Exploited: How AI Changes the Dangling DNS Threat]]></title>
    <link>https://circleid.com/posts/from&#45;forgotten&#45;to&#45;exploited&#45;how&#45;ai&#45;changes&#45;the&#45;dangling&#45;dns&#45;threat</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Dangling DNS records can expose trusted corporate subdomains to takeover, while AI-assisted reconnaissance makes abandoned resources easier to find, increasing the need for continuous DNS monitoring rather than periodic audits.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-09-01T08:46:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Thirty-Five Years Later, Moscow Comes Looking for the Soviet Union&#8217;s Domain]]></title>
    <link>https://circleid.com/posts/thirty&#45;five&#45;years&#45;later&#45;moscow&#45;comes&#45;looking&#45;for&#45;the&#45;soviet&#45;unions&#45;domain</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Russia is imposing state identity verification on .su, the Soviet Union's surviving domain, as researchers uncover criminal infrastructure across the namespace and ICANN pursues a retirement process that could eventually remove it from the global root.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-09-01T08:35:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Digital Embassies: Could Africa Rethink Digital Sovereignty?]]></title>
    <link>https://circleid.com/posts/digital&#45;embassies&#45;could&#45;africa&#45;rethink&#45;digital&#45;sovereignty</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Estonia's data embassy model offers African governments a different approach to digital sovereignty, combining cross-border infrastructure, legal safeguards and geographic redundancy to keep critical state systems secure, recoverable and operational during major disruptions.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-08-31T09:24:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Missing Privacy Debate Around IPv6]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[IPv6 solves the Internet's address shortage and simplifies networking, but its technical elegance may carry a hidden cost: shifting privacy protections from architectural constraints toward policies controlled by Internet providers, corporations and governments.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-08-28T13:05:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[AI Is Rewriting the Internet. But in Whose Language?]]></title>
    <link>https://circleid.com/posts/ai&#45;is&#45;rewriting&#45;the&#45;internet&#45;but&#45;in&#45;whose&#45;language</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[AI is becoming a gateway to the internet, but thousands of languages remain excluded. Closing the gap requires multilingual infrastructure, representative training data and policies that make linguistic inclusion a foundation of the AI era.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-08-27T11:20:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Publishing DMARC Is Not the Same as Operating It]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Publishing a DMARC record is only the beginning. New data show that many domains lack enforcement or reporting, exposing a gap between adopting email authentication and operating it effectively enough to detect problems and deter impersonation.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-08-26T18:49:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Last gTLD Round Taught Us the Wrong Lessons]]></title>
    <link>https://circleid.com/posts/the&#45;last&#45;gtld&#45;round&#45;taught&#45;us&#45;the&#45;wrong&#45;lessons</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Fourteen years after ICANN's last gTLD expansion, registration figures offer an incomplete verdict. The next round will test whether applicants can build namespaces with enduring relevance, rather than merely generating impressive launch volumes and revenues.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-08-26T12:40:00-07:00</dc:date>
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