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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Friends and Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">ICANN’s Registry and Registrar Stakeholder Groups (Contracted Parties House [CPH]) organized a webinar entitled “<i>The COVID Registration Spike and Abuse: Lessons Learned
from a Contracted Party Perspective</i>”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">This 90-minute webinar had presentations from ICANN, Law Enforcement, Registries, and Registrars, in addition to some remarks from registries and registrars from across
the globe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Since the outset of the Coronavirus pandemic, there has been a sharp increase in domain names related to the virus. There is an understandable
concern by many in the ICANN community that these domains were/are seeking to exploit the situation and use these registrations to propagate systemic abuse. With several months of learning under our collective belt, this webinar seeks to take a look at the
data related to these registrations (presented by ICANN Org), discuss concerns around the registrations from law enforcement (PSWG), and examine abuse levels and responses to that abuse from registries and registrars (CPH).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">You can access the recording of the webinar here >>
<a href="https://bit.ly/3hjbdIS">https://bit.ly/3hjbdIS</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Enjoy!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Fahd Batayneh<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">ICANN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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