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On September 8-11, 2025, it.com Domains joined APTLD (Asia Pacific Top-Level Domains Association Conference) 2025 in Belgrade, Serbia. Sergey Gorbunov, Director of Registry Services, represented the company at the event.
APTLD brought together domain industry leaders to tackle crucial topics like Internet infrastructure, security, and standardization for domain zone management. Over four days, participants exchanged insights, engaged in discussions, attended seminars, and took part in informal meetings.
This year’s conference focused on several crucial issues such as combating DNS abuse and increasing the level of cybersecurity, the role of national registries in regulating Internet content, challenges and prospects for the development of ccTLDs (country-code top-level domains) in the context of global competition, the use of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) in domain extension management.
Sergey Gorbunov was one of the speakers at the ‘Automation and AI in Registry Operations: Enhancing Efficiency and Security’ session, where participants discussed how new technologies affect the efficiency, security and management of domains.

From left to right: Yuri Takamatsu, International Affairs Leader at JPRS, Vadim Mikhaylov, Infrastructure consulting at the Coordination Center for TLD .ru/.рф, and Sergey Gorbunov, Director of Registry Services at it.com Domains. Source: APTLD
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APTLD brought together domain industry leaders to tackle crucial topics like Internet infrastructure, security, and standardization for domain zone management. Over four days, participants exchanged insights, engaged in discussions, attended seminars, and took part in informal meetings.
This year’s conference focused on several crucial issues such as combating DNS abuse and increasing the level of cybersecurity, the role of national registries in regulating Internet content, challenges and prospects for the development of ccTLDs (country-code top-level domains) in the context of global competition, the use of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) in domain extension management.
Sergey Gorbunov was one of the speakers at the ‘Automation and AI in Registry Operations: Enhancing Efficiency and Security’ session, where participants discussed how new technologies affect the efficiency, security and management of domains.

From left to right: Yuri Takamatsu, International Affairs Leader at JPRS, Vadim Mikhaylov, Infrastructure consulting at the Coordination Center for TLD .ru/.рф, and Sergey Gorbunov, Director of Registry Services at it.com Domains. Source: APTLD
AI is a game-changing technology, also for the domain name industry. We at it.com Domains are actively exploring opportunities it brings and already have some successful implementations that improve abuse prevention, domain selection experience for our registrants, and business intelligence tools used for our internal needs and offered to our RSP (registry service provider) clients,
said Sergey.
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