VeriSign Domain Name Alerts

VeriSign® Domain Name Zone Alerts help customers to keep pace with the millions of changes made to the .com and .net zone file every day in near real-time. Domain Name Zone Alerts provide the aggregated report of the additions, deletions, and modifications of .com and .net domain names, name servers, and IP addresses.

VeriSign, the global registry operator for the .com and .net generic Top Level Domain Names (gTLDs), propagates Domain Name System (DNS) updates to the .com and .net zone files every few minutes. These near real-time updates provide a rich set of timely data that gives insight into what is happening in the .com and .net zone files Domain Name Zone Alerts provide this data to you in near real-time.

Enhancing Internet Security and Brands

Domain Name Zone Alerts are intended to help companies develop services that address the problems of phishing, fraud and identity theft as well as brand infringement by providing data to help detect the existence of domain names that may have been registered to facilitate these illegal or infringing practices.

Phishing, fraud and identity theft are rapidly growing problems threatening electronic commerce, financial services, and other services provided on the Internet. Criminal organisations utilise a variety of techniques to lure unsuspecting Internet users into revealing confidential information, including the method of the registration of misleading domain names that are similar to those of legitimate organisations. Domain Name Zone Alerts will assist online security companies, ISPs, search engines, financial service companies, and other stakeholders in Internet services and security to develop products and services that keep pace with the rapid rate at which these changes occur and thus, improve their anti-phishing capabilities.

Protecting your brand and trademarks online is essential for companies today. Misuse of your brand can damage the brand equity that you have so carefully established. Domain Name Zone Alerts will provide data to assist companies to develop products and services that identify and detect domain names that may infringe on their brands.

Product Details

Domain Name Zone Alerts features:

Includes additions, deletions, and modifications of domain names, name servers and IP addresses

Available for .com and .net domain name registrations

Aggregated data file of consecutive files of incremental data changes

Updated approximately every five minutes

Accessible via a secured FTP server that you access directly

Each five minute update is available for download as often as needed for 72-hours after posting

Two pricing tiers available: standard and premium

Benefits

Makes timely DNS update data available

Provides data that may assist with development of products and services that address problems in the Internet industry such as phishing, fraud, identity theft and brand infringement

Enables more accurate local zone file look-up for faster domain name availability checks

Enhances knowledge of deleting domain names

The Domain Name Zone Alerts are offered in a two-tiered model:

Standard Service: The Standard Service is available exclusively to ICANN-accredited .com and .net registrars for the limited internal purpose of facilitating the administration of .com and .net domain name registrations.
Premium Service: The Premium Service is available to registrars as well as other interested parties that desire greater flexibility, such as the ability to use the data in connection with, or as part of, certain value-added service offerings.