September 28, 2022: Muralidharan Palanisamy, chief solutions officer at AppViewX, said Akamai’s detection is based on NODs, which are essentially new DNS domains that appear on the internet. Palanisamy said with existing domains having some history and reputation, identifying whether or not they are secure requires minimal effort. That being said, Palanisamy said there’s a challenge in figuring out whether the new domains are malicious or not.