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• ICANN resets passwords after website breach

  No financial information was affected, the organization said

• ICANN seeks opinion on legality of '.sucks' registration process

  The Internet naming body has written to U.S. and Canadian regulators

• How to stay ahead of threats to DNS servers

  It's virtually impossible to stop DNS attacks, but these best practices can significantly minimize the impact

• Exposing hidden domain registrations could hurt innocent users more than criminals

  Proxy services to hide details of domain registrants from the Whois database should be allowed, a researcher said

• Surveillance, ICANN transition dominate Brazil NETmundial meeting

  A non-binding statement called for Internet governance decisions by consensus among all stakeholders

• Brazil's global Internet conference includes call to end spying

  Participants target an end to Internet surveillance, but have other goals including net neutrality