Suspicious domains and how to find them Automatic close domain name variant detection using string similarities Phishing, as one of the most popular social engineering attacks, aims to obtain an Internet user’s personal information through a
Analysis of registrations from registrant point of view This is a follow-up post on registrant classification. Before reading this post, make sure to check out Registrant Classification using Machine Learning. In the last post, we introduced the models
Registrant Classification using Machine Learning An important task in text data mining is text classification/categorisation. The objective, is to start with a training set of documents (e.g. newspaper articles) labeled with a class
Registrar Size Prediction An interesting request we received after the register size prediction presentation at the Registrar Conference earlier last year, was a suggestion of applying similar methodology on the data per registrar.
Register Size Prediction In my previous two posts, we've seen how to model domain retention prediction and new creates forecasting. Those are essential model components required for a register size prediction model. In
Domain Retention Prediction Customer-base analysis has become increasingly important. A critical part of the analysis is the prediction of retention rate, which is defined as the proportion of customers active at the end of period $t-1$ who are still active at the end of period $t$. Retention
Time Series Analysis of .nz Activity Data The number of new domain creations is an important indicator of the registry activity. Using an appropriate method to predict the number of creations in the future helps us to better understand registry behaviour and plan wisely. One of the most popular forecasting methods
Domain retention prediction using DTMC Being able to predict domain name retention / renewal is an important tool for registries to better understand the behaviour of domain names in the register. The prediction model can also be used to forecast the future value of a domain name and the income
