Nominet Joins Forces With Oxford Brookes University To Deliver Safer, More Secure UK Internet

Published 25th April 2007

DTI Award leads to partnership between Nominet and Oxford Brookes University to develop anti-abuse technology for the fight against fraudulent use of the .uk national registry.

25th April 2007 - Nominet, the .uk domain name registry, has announced a partnership with Oxford Brookes University to develop anti-abuse technology that will help protect more than 5.5 million UK domain names, registrant data and the UK Internet as a whole. The partnership is being supported by the Department of Trade and Industry through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) award. It will see the creation of two new anti-abuse posts.

Taking advantage of Oxford Brookes’ highly respected research and academic experience in knowledge discovery and data mining, Nominet will utilise advanced data mining and visualisation techniques to develop algorithms and software tools that can help detect fraudulent use of the .uk national registry.

“As the organisation responsible for the management of the national .uk registry, Nominet plays a key role at the heart of the UK e-economy. It is essential that we remain ahead of those who wish to exploit the registry,” argues Jay Daley, Nominet’s Director of IT.
“We’ve developed sophisticated systems to protect the .uk registry; but as we know, we need to make efforts to stay ahead of the abusers by developing increasingly complex systems. The KTP with Oxford Brookes will allow Nominet to learn from respected academics at the University and develop tools to guard against those who seek to disrupt operations, take commercial advantage of the system or steal information”.

Commenting on the partnership John Corlett, KTP Manager for Oxford Brookes University says, “Oxford Brookes is currently making excellent progress in researching and studying the techniques associated with fighting fraudulent Internet activity. The partnership with Nominet will allow us to build on our existing academic work and develop systems that will help protect the Nominet registry and create a safer UK Internet.”

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