Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Cybercriminal hackers are not, on the whole, stupid people.

Things have not been tilting in Airbnb's favor. The online vacation rental marketplace Airbnb has recently failed to win a cybersquatting case in an attempt to recover the premium domain name, ...

Domain names have become a critical component of business branding, allowing a business’s website and email address to be easily identified by the public. Consequently, issues pertaining to fraudulent ...

At the beginning of 2025, WIPO handled the ‘noon.ae’ case, which saw another complainant lose a domain dispute in an attempt to recover its domain name after it incidentally lapsed. This domain fell ...

One of the first tasks the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) faced was how to deal with the dilemma of registering domain names to those that first claim them while ...