Today, the European Commission published the Study on Domain Name System (DNS) abuse and Appendix 1 Technical report of the study, commissioned to Ivett Paulovics from FASANO PAULOVICS Società tra Avvocati, and Andrzej Duda and Maciej Korczynski from Grenoble INP-UGA.

The study assesses the scope and impact of DNS abuse and provides input for possible policy measures.

In particular, it proposes a set of recommendations in the field of prevention, detection and mitigation of DNS abuse addressed to DNS operators (TLD registries, registrars, resellers and hosting providers, depending on their role in the DNS chain) but also to international, national and EU institutions and coordination bodies. The study also recommends actions in the field of DNS metadata, WHOIS and contact information, abuse reporting, protection of the DNS operations, awareness, knowledge building and mitigation collaboration at EU level.