--- title: "#224 – David Snead on Building Trust and Collaboration in the Hosting Industry With the Secure Hosting Alliance" url: https://daily.dev/posts/224-david-snead-on-building-trust-and-collaboration-in-the-hosting-industry-with-the-secure-hosti-a0fb9xwra source_url: https://wptavern.com/podcast/224-david-snead-on-building-trust-and-collaboration-in-the-hosting-industry-with-the-secure-hosting-alliance type: article source: "WP Tavern" published: 2026-07-08T14:01:33.010Z updated: 2026-07-08T14:01:55.491Z tags: ["security", "wordpress"] reading_time: 28 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # #224 – David Snead on Building Trust and Collaboration in the Hosting Industry With the Secure Hosting Alliance **[WP Tavern](https://daily.dev/sources/wptavern)** · 28 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary David Snead, a hosting industry veteran since 1999, discusses the Secure Hosting Alliance and the Internet Infrastructure Forum (IIF), a cross-industry initiative enabling hosting providers, registrars, DNS services, and cloud providers to share abuse intelligence in real time. The IIF uses a secretariat model where participants submit abuse data (timestamps, IPs, domain names) in xarf format, which is enriched and routed to relevant parties. Currently in prototype phase with fake shop fraud as the test case, the project already includes major players like GoDaddy and Newfold alongside smaller hosts. The Secure Hosting Alliance, a working group of the i2Coalition, offers a Trust Seal Certification for hosts meeting professionalism standards. Membership is revenue-based and operates on rough consensus. The initiative aims to reduce the security burden on smaller hosts, help the industry self-regulate ahead of potential government regulation, and restore the collaborative culture that existed in early hosting communities. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Cloud Security Alliance launches framework to improve SaaS security](https://daily.dev/posts/cloud-security-alliance-launches-framework-to-improve-saas-security-2ki1hblvb) · CSO Online · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Cloud CISO Perspectives: Practical guidance on building with SAIF](https://daily.dev/posts/cloud-ciso-perspectives-practical-guidance-on-building-with-saif-mujl5sbnq) · Google Cloud · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Internet Runs on Free and Open Source Software—And So Does the DNS](https://daily.dev/posts/the-internet-runs-on-free-and-open-source-software-and-so-does-the-dns-p6tww0pax) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#wordpress](https://daily.dev/tags/wordpress) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/224-david-snead-on-building-trust-and-collaboration-in-the-hosting-industry-with-the-secure-hosti-a0fb9xwra)