READS: Enhancing .it Domains Integrity with Registrant’s Anomalies Detection System

The domains registration is an essential activity, allowing the final users to have a domain name on Internet. The Registro .it is the Registry of .it Internet domains, the 6th national Registry at European level and the 15th in the world, in terms of domain names, with about 3.5 million registered domain names and nearly 3 million Registrant contacts. Registro .it must ensure the correctness of the data saved into its database, where on the one hand, there are European laws that oblige the registries to keep domain name registration data complete and accurate; on the other hand, it is common for malicious registrants to save false information used to throw cyber-attacks. For these reasons, we propose READS (REgistrant Anomalies Detection System) an anomaly detection system able to annotate false or incoherent registrant domain name information, to make the correction feasible for the registry operators. The system is designed with scalability and modularity as key features, it uses Natural Language Processing techniques, machine learning, heuristics, and the external services to annotate anomalies found among the registrants data. Registry operators can analyse the annotations made, validate them, and propose them to the registrar operators for correction.