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100 Million Domains Risk Assessed: How It Works and What We Learned

Since December 2023, our AI-powered Domain Risk Assessment system has evaluated 100 million domains, helping organizations catch cyber threats before they strike. Here's what the system delivers, what we learned along the way, and where we're heading next.

Why iQ Global Is Supporting Reputable Domains

After 8 years in abuse management, we founded Reputable Domains to prevent legitimate businesses from being incorrectly blacklisted. Here is why we believe in this initiative.

Intelligence as a Service: A New Approach to Business Intelligence Production

How AI agents are changing how organizations produce and consume business intelligence. Discover how Intelligence as a Service uses autonomous AI agents to execute complete intelligence workflows—from data collection through analysis to finished output.

Building at the Frontier: Our 10 Billion Token Milestone with OpenAI

OpenAI recognized our achievement of processing over 10 billion tokens through their API. This milestone represents thousands of hours building production AI systems that serve real customers in the domain industry. Here's what we learned building at the frontier of AI.

Smarter Automation: Major Updates to iQ Abuse Manager's Ruleset System

The updated iQ Abuse Manager Ruleset System delivers smarter automation with rule prioritization, advanced filtering, and an intuitive setup wizard. These enhancements let teams handle complex abuse workflows faster, with greater precision and less manual effort.

AI, Brands, and Domain Strategy in the New Digital Era

As AI replaces search engines, brands must move from SEO to GEO — building trust and authority so AI systems cite them. Clear structure, rich content, and credible domains (like .brand) are now key to digital visibility.

iQ Q3 2025 Update: Smarter Tools, AI Innovation, and Preparing for the Next gTLD Round

iQ’s Q3 2025 update brings faster APIs, smarter AI tools, and new services to simplify compliance, fight fraud, and prepare for the next gTLD round.

iQ COO Su Wu Featured in ECO's Latest dotmagazine Edition

iQ is pleased to announce that our Chief Operating Officer, Su Wu, has been featured as a contributing expert in the latest edition of dotmagazine, published by eco – Association of the Internet Industry. The article, titled "Harnessing AI to Combat DNS Abuse," showcases Su Wu's insights on how artificial intelligence is transforming abuse management in the digital security landscape.

Transform Abuse Reporting with AI: Introducing KARA

KARA is an AI agent developed by iQ that transforms unstructured emails and chat interactions into actionable abuse reports. It addresses the challenges of traditional abuse reporting systems by allowing victims to submit reports in natural language, automatically extracting and validating evidence, and converting reports into structured data for abuse teams. The system is available as a demo at kara@ai.iq.global, where users can test its capabilities with sample reports. KARA represents iQ's commitment to developing practical AI tools to combat online abuse and improve the efficiency of the reporting process.

iQ featured in i2 Coalition Member Spotlight

We're thrilled to share that iQ has been featured in the i2Coalition Member Spotlight! As a SaaS provider specializing in the domain name industry, we're proud to be part of a community that champions innovation and collaboration in internet infrastructure.

From Data Dumps to Conversations: Talk to Domain Analytics with iQ-AI.

Introducing iQ-AI, the newest feature of iQ Domain Analytics that lets TLD managers chat directly with their analytics for instant insights. No more digging through reports—just ask questions like, “How many domains were registered yesterday?” and get answers instantly.

iQ Domain Analytics and Web3 : Bridging the Blockchain Gap

The domain industry is evolving with the emergence of Web3 names alongside traditional domain names. iQ Domain Analytics bridges this gap by providing comprehensive analytics for both ecosystems.

Custom Fields - Tailor Abuse Reports With Custom Data And Build Stronger Cases

How custom fields help you capture crucial evidence and patterns that matter to your organization

URLAbuse Feed Activated

Connecting the dots - Revealing Hidden Connections in Malicious Registrations

From Registration to Risk Alert: iQ Risk Score's Rapid Threat Identification

iQ Risk Score demonstrates its advanced capability by identifying suspicious websites four days earlier than traditional security methods. This early detection, as seen with altafinanza.online, provides businesses crucial time to implement defensive measures before potential cyber threats can evolve into serious attacks

Rebrandly Partners with iQ Global to Bring AI-enabled Trust and Safety to Digital Branding

A collaboration that aims to set new standards for secure and trustworthy digital brand management

How to stop worrying and learn to love the YES Vote

The article explores the ongoing vote for 2024 Global Amendments to key internet agreements, focusing on their potential impact.

ICANNTOBERFEST

We’re coming to Hamburg and we have stuff!Like most of you, the IQ team are preparing to descend on Hamburg during Germany’s drinkiest month for ICANN78 and we’d love to meet with YOU. Yes, you specifically.

Effective DNS Abuse Management: Abuse Team Training Strategies and Insights

iQ not only offers Abuse Management Software, but we also provide our clients with managed abuse services and assistance on how best to manage DNS abuse reports .In her recent talk at the DNS Symposium in Da Nang, Vietnam, our COO, Su Wu, outlined some points that you should consider when setting up a team to manage DNS abuse cases.

iQ attends the DNS Symposium in Da Nang, Vietnam

On September 4, 2023, ICANN and the DNSAI hosted a Day of DNS Abuse Discussions as part of the DNS Symposium / OARC 41 week in Da Nang, Vietnam.The first event of its kind, Day of DNS Abuse Discussions functioned similarly to a CPS event, focusing exclusively on issues of DNS Abuse that directly impact registries/registrars.

Q3 update - what we've been up to!

As we move into the 2nd half of the year, the team at iQ is delighted to share some of our latest news. As well as significant product updates, we also introduce a new team member, our community engagement and more.

V3 IQ Abuse Manager roll out set to begin August 2023

We are excited to announce Version 3 of IQ Abuse Manager will be rolled out from August 2023. The release of V3 following a long period of research, feedback and tracking the changing mitigation needs of the internet infrastructure community.

5 Questions for Michael B. Halvorsen: Machine Learning and AI in the DNS Abuse space

AI has been on my mind a lot lately. Mostly because news stories about AI have been all over my screens lately. It is the stuff of philosophical arguments with my partner and curiosity from my parents. Congratulations everyone trying to explain what we do to our parents, because it is no longer answerable by asking: “have you seen a Godaddy commercial?”. They understand we work on the internet and now they want us to tell them what AI is and whether it is specifically coming for them.

Q1 update - what we've been up to!

Q1 has come and gone in a blur, and we wanted to make sure we celebrate our achievements with you in this update. Last month we welcomed an industry legend, Kelly Hardy, to the iQ team.Kelly brings her vast experience through her previous roles as a consultant to ccTLDS, data companies, registrars and ICANN, as well as her most recent role as Head of Registry Policy for CentralNic.

iQ Sponsors Web Agency Summit 2023

The summit brings together the best and brightest minds in the Wordpress industry

Q&A with Kelly Hardy

We ask our new colleague, Kelly Hardy a few questions on current industry "hot topics" and some to get to know her better

The NIS2 Directive - A primer

The NIS2 was adopted by the EU Commission in January 2023. This new regulation affects our industry. In this post we unpick and share what NIS2 is, who it applies to and how it might affect you.

iQ sponsors "ICANN and current challenges on the internet" workshop

"What Is.." Series - Understanding Malware (part 2)

"What Is.." Series - Understanding Malware

"What Is.." Series - Understanding Phishing

Stop child sexual abuse online. iQ integrates with the Internet Watch Foundation

The Digital Services Act (DSA) - One more acronym to be aware of

Compromised Domains - Turning Headaches Into Customer Success (And Revenue)

New Feed Integration: Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)

See you at the ICANN CPS Summit

DNS Abuse Metrics & Trends

Announcing iQ Abuse Scan

Abuse Manager - New Feature: Report Sharing

Abuse Manager Tip: Viewing all cases for a date range

Meet us at ICANN 75 - Kuala Lumpur

Abuse Manager: Evidence Gathering

How iQ Abuse Manager gathers evidence gathering for reviewing and managing cases of potential domain name abuse.

Abuse Manager Feature Highlight: Automating Screenshots

Enriching evidence with iQ Abuse Manager's screenshot functinonality

Abuse Manager Feature Highlight: White and grey-listing domains

New feature release. White-listing and grey-listing domains.

Abuse Manager Feature Highlight: Managing Category Monitoring

Feature Highlight: Fast Filtering On Domain Names

With this new feature, retrieving relevant data quickly is a cinch!

Our Q2 newsletter is out

Monitoring your staging area for vulnerabilities

Q Domain Analytics - Seeing the wood for the trees

Carel Bitter updates us on Spamhaus, botnet C&C, and criminal domain name usage trends

The Swedish Internet Foundation invests in the Norwegian Cyber Security company iQ Global AS

See you at Nordic Domain Days

ICANN Spec 11.3b explained

Industry chat with Michele Neylon

Service Highlight: Managed DNS Abuse

Viewing threat analysis for any given domain

Creating a Table Preset to speed up case management

Cloudfest, we're on our way

How To Series: Uploading domains to be monitored

DNS Abuse: A 2021 Recap

Making the most of Abuse Manager

Adding Evidence & Support Materials to Abuse Case Notes

DNS Abuse: Everyone’s Problem

A Female Perspective on the Domain Industry

Inbound Email Reports

LG shares what's new with Abuse Manager v2.0

Reducing manual work with Filters and Presets

Using rulesets to quickly manage domain abuse cases

iQ Abuse Manager - Filter Cases on Domain Name

Abuse Management Evolved!

How .BANK addresses the Cybersecurity Problem

10 minutes with Peter Cassidy, Co-Founder, Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG)

Abuse & Brand Protection Trends in African TLDs

iQ 2nd Quarter 2021 Activity Summary

iQ Abuse Manager Enhanced Communication

iQ Abuse Manager integrates Malware Patrol

Insight into Domain Abuse with iQ Abuse Report

How Spamhaus addresses DNS Abuse

Introducing Ruleset for Abuse Manager