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  <dc:date>2026-04-30T19:14:00+00:00</dc:date>


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    <title><![CDATA[Authority Formation and Legitimacy in Parallel Governance Tracks]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Africa's internet governance faces parallel tracks as AFRINIC's community-led reforms unfold alongside a continent-wide blueprint, raising questions over whether legitimacy will stem from participatory processes or increasingly coordinated external alignment.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Unearthing DNS Facts about UAT-8099]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[WhoisXML API analysis deepens understanding of the UAT-8099 campaign, uncovering expanded DNS infrastructure, early indicators of malicious intent, and thousands of linked artifacts, underscoring the group's evolving tactics and regional focus across Asia.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-04-29T12:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Building RIPE SEE: A Conversation With Jan Žorž About Community, Trust, and the Work Behind a Regional Event]]></title>
    <link>https://circleid.com/posts/building&#45;ripe&#45;see&#45;a&#45;conversation&#45;with&#45;jan&#45;zhorzh&#45;about&#45;community&#45;trust&#45;and&#45;the&#45;work&#45;behind&#45;a&#45;regional&#45;event</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Jan Žorž reflects on SEE RIPE's role in uniting a fragmented region, where trust built through informal exchange now underpins internet resilience and helps align engineers with policymakers as regulatory pressures intensify.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-04-28T12:58:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Iran&#8217;s Internet Blackout Hits 60 Days - Deepening Economic Crisis, Two-Tier Access]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Iran's now 60-day internet blackout is inflicting heavy economic losses, disrupting exports and daily life, while a tiered access plan deepens inequality and signals a shift toward tighter state control of digital connectivity.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-04-28T11:58:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Beyond Connectivity: How Submarine Cable Resilience Dictates Digital Sovereignty in the Age of Fragmented Governance]]></title>
    <link>https://circleid.com/posts/beyond&#45;connectivity&#45;how&#45;submarine&#45;cable&#45;resilience&#45;dictates&#45;digital&#45;sovereignty&#45;in&#45;the&#45;age&#45;of&#45;fragmented&#45;governance</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Subsea cables underpin global data flows, yet resilience, control and deep sea access now define digital sovereignty as governance fragments, hyperscalers consolidate ownership, and states prioritize survivability over efficiency in an increasingly contested geopolitical seabed.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-04-28T11:25:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[IP Reputation for AI Teams: The Infrastructure Concept Nobody Explains]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[As AI agents scale, IP reputation emerges as a hidden constraint, shaping access to external systems and degrading performance. Managing network identity, not just models, is becoming essential for reliable data collection.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-04-28T11:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Trusted Notifier Network (TNN) Core Concept 2: Building a Chain of Indemnity]]></title>
    <link>https://circleid.com/posts/trusted&#45;notifier&#45;network&#45;tnn&#45;core&#45;concept&#45;2&#45;building&#45;a&#45;chain&#45;of&#45;indemnity</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[TNN proposes a contractual chain of indemnity to shift legal risk in global takedowns, replacing patchy statutory protections with enforceable accountability and a fund that makes good-faith action commercially viable for smaller intermediaries.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-04-27T13:18:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Africa&#8217;s Community Networks Offer a Local Path to Inclusive and Resilient Connectivity]]></title>
    <link>https://circleid.com/posts/africa&#45;community&#45;networks&#45;offer&#45;a&#45;local&#45;path&#45;to&#45;inclusive&#45;and&#45;resilient&#45;connectivity</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Community networks, locally built and governed, are emerging across Africa as cost-effective tools to extend connectivity, bolster digital sovereignty, and improve cyber resilience, despite regulatory, financial, and technical constraints that hinder broader adoption.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-04-27T13:07:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fake Domains, Real Damage: What the Latest Data Reveals]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Third-party domains exploiting brand names are proliferating, with 88% of homoglyphs externally owned. Many remain dormant yet email-enabled, creating scalable phishing risks as attackers increasingly target trust rather than infrastructure.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-04-24T14:57:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[DNIB Reports 392.5 Million Domain Name Registrations in Q1 2026]]></title>
    <link>https://circleid.com/posts/dnib&#45;reports&#45;392.5&#45;million&#45;domain&#45;name&#45;registrations&#45;in&#45;q1&#45;2026</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[The first quarter of 2026 closed with 392.5 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 24.1 million domain name registrations compared to the first quarter of 2025, according to the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report released Thursday at DNIB.com.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-04-24T13:32:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[ForceMemo in the DNS Spotlight]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Researchers tracing the ForceMemo campaign uncover a sprawling DNS footprint, linking compromised GitHub repositories to suspicious domains, shared infrastructure and fresh artifacts, suggesting a coordinated operation that continues to evolve despite partial attribution.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-04-23T11:11:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fixing Geofeed: From Self-Reported Data to Verified Trust]]></title>
    <link>https://circleid.com/posts/fixing&#45;geofeed&#45;from&#45;self&#45;reported&#45;data&#45;to&#45;verified&#45;trust</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Geofeed data, long reliant on unverifiable self-assertions, faces mounting security risks. Integrating RPKI could transform it into a trusted, cryptographically validated infrastructure, strengthening routing integrity, regulatory compliance, and digital sovereignty across an increasingly contested internet.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-04-21T11:38:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Internet Has a New User - It&#8217;s Not You]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[AI agents are rapidly becoming primary internet users, with inference-driven traffic reshaping network demands and exposing infrastructure blind spots as latency-sensitive, machine-to-machine activity begins to outpace and outcompete human web behavior.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-04-21T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Domain Universe in 2026: AI, Security, Market Maturity, and the New gTLD Frontier]]></title>
    <link>https://circleid.com/posts/the&#45;domain&#45;universe&#45;in&#45;2026&#45;ai&#45;security&#45;market&#45;maturity&#45;and&#45;the&#45;new&#45;gtld&#45;frontier</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Domains enter a mature phase as AI reshapes discovery, security sharpens, and new gTLDs expand. Once simple addresses, they are becoming critical infrastructure for identity, trust, and automated commerce in the evolving web.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-04-20T12:32:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[NOGs at a Crossroads: Confronting the New Demands of Network Operations]]></title>
    <link>https://circleid.com/posts/nogs&#45;at&#45;a&#45;crossroads&#45;confronting&#45;the&#45;new&#45;demands&#45;of&#45;network&#45;operations</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Surging outages and mounting losses are increasingly forcing a rethink of network operations, as NOGs now confront a shift from technical exchange to strategic governance, where resilience, leadership, and institutional influence define the profession's future.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2026-04-20T12:17:00-07:00</dc:date>
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