We are delighted to announce that Billy McDiarmid, VP of Customer Engineering at Red Sift, is joining us at Nordic Domain Days 2026.

Billy is a solutions engineering leader, technologist, and cybersecurity advocate who leads a global team helping security professionals create a safer internet through proactive protection of the public web and email ecosystem. A regular speaker at industry events, he is known for connecting deep technical work to measurable business value, with a delivery style that keeps the room engaged.

His session, The DNS Health Dividend: How Registrars Can Turn Regulatory Convergence Into Customer Value, lands on the Tuesday afternoon Tech! stage at 16:30, hosted by Ulrich Wisser of ICANN.

The regulatory landscape around DNS security has shifted faster in the past 18 months than in the previous decade. NIS2 requires entities to apply DNS security best practices. ENISA's Technical Implementation Guidance names DNS hygiene, protective DNS, and logging as core elements of cyber risk management. NIST's SP 800-81r3 update arrives at strikingly similar conclusions from a US perspective.

For registrars and registries, this convergence is both an obligation and an opportunity. NIS2 Article 28 places domain registration service providers in scope as essential entities, and enterprise customers across regulated sectors will increasingly expect their domain partners to help them meet these standards, not just sell them zone files. Billy will walk through what the converging frameworks actually require, where the gaps are in today's domain management model, and how registrars can turn DNS health into a value-added service layer that strengthens customer relationships and builds competitive differentiation.

Billy joins NDD as part of Red Sift's NDD 2026 partnership, announced separately today. Welcome to Stockholm, Billy. We are looking forward to your session!