<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">hi all,<div><br></div><div>here's an example of an outreach item that we could use as a model.</div><div><br></div><div>mikey</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11412696.htm">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11412696.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="title">Blacknight Advises IT Professionals to Take Steps to Mitigate Potential Name Collision Issues </h1>
<h2 class="subtitle">Leading Irish registrar joins ICANN in public education campaign to promote DNS stability. </h2>
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<img src="http://www.prweb.com/images/release-topquote.gif" height="25" hspace="5" width="29">We want to get the message out to all IT professionals to change these internal names to FQDNs to get ahead of the problem.<img src="http://www.prweb.com/images/release-bottomquote.gif" align="absmiddle" height="25" hspace="5" width="29">
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</div><p class="releaseDateline">Carlow,Ireland (PRWEB) December 11, 2013 </p><p>
Leading Irish domain registrar and hosting company, Blacknight joins
ICANN in urging IT professionals to correct potential Name Collision
issues before they become a critical problem.</p><p>A report released by ICANN on December 6, 2013, titled “Name
Collision Identification and Mitigation for IT Professionals”, explains
the nature and causes of name collision and proposes a range of possible
solutions.</p><p>Domain Name Collision happens when a name used by an individual or
organisation for their private networks matches a new TLD that has
entered the DNS. For instance if a company were using an internal name
called “company.printer.office” this unqualified domain could “collide”
with the .office TLD and cause network confusion. However, according to
ICANN, the report shows that private networks will consistently,
stably, and reliably perform name resolution when they use Fully
Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) and resolve them from the global DNS.</p><p>“The Collision reports on individual new TLDs are staggering,”
Blacknight CEO Michele Neylon explains. “In some cases there are
thousands of “internal names” and private name spaces causing collision
for a single TLD as private query results show up in the global DNS. We
want to get the message out to all IT professionals to change these
internal names to FQDNs to get ahead of the problem.” </p><p>To mitigate the problem, ICANN recommends that users not already
using FQDNs from the public DNS should consider the following strategy:
<br></p><ul class="releaseul"><li> Monitor name services, compile a
list of private TLDs or short unqualified names you use internally, and
compare the list you create against the list of new TLD strings. (You
can see all applications on <a href="http://www.dotwhat.co" rel="nofollow">http://www.dotwhat.co</a>) </li>
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Formulate a plan to mitigate causes of leakage.</li>
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Prepare users for the impending change in name usage by notifying them in advance or providing training</li>
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Implement your plan to mitigate the potential collision</li></ul>
Neylon continues: “If these potential issues go uncorrected, it will
become a problem for both the global DNS and internal networks using the
names that are causing collision. At Blacknight we pride ourselves on
providing our customers with a pain free online experience and will
continue to update and educate the community on any related developments
to stay far ahead of this problem.”<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>ICANN’s Name Collision resources, including the Name Collision
Identification and Mitigation for IT Professionals report can be found
at <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/help/name-collision" rel="nofollow">http://www.icann.org/en/help/name-collision</a>.</p><p>For more information on Blacknight’s suite of services please visit <a href="http://www.blacknight.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.blacknight.com</a>.</p><p>About Blacknight:
<br>Blacknight are an Irish based, ICANN accredited domain registrar and
hosting company. Recipients of several awards for their revolutionary
use of social media, Blacknight are one of Europe’s most cutting edge
Internet companies. Blacknight constantly seek to lead the way by
introducing innovative solutions for its client base and provide
dedicated servers and colocation as well as a comprehensive range of
Microsoft Windows and Linux based hosting plans and domain name
registration services to business globally.</p></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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