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DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2687d267Registrars off the hook for silly ICANN transfer policy
Domain name registrars have been assured that ICANN Compliance will not pursue them for failing to implement the new Transfer Policy on privacy-protected names. As we reported late November, the new policy requires...
DNS reddit2688d189Correct config for smartphone app DNS
Hi everyone, I have an odd problem. I have the following landscape. domain.com, www.domain.com - A record points to some other host qa.domain.com - A record points to an AWS server Now here's what's going on. If...
DNS reddit2691d196Where to edit my DNS settings?
I am trying to help a friend update their SPF records. I have done this many times before but my friend does not know where their name server is. It is not with their registrar but I found the name of it:...
OpenDNS Blog2692d250New attacks on wallets and AdWords correlate with Bitcoin...
Over the past year as cryptocurrency has steadily increased well past $800,  OpenDNS Labs has been diligently tracking Bitcoin wallet phishing campaigns. With this most recent uptick in price we have observed a recent...
DNS reddit2692d233Ping works by IP but not hostname even though it is...
I'm having the weirdest issue here and I'm hoping that someone here can tell me whether it's DNS related or if I'm just barking up the wrong tree. I recently implemented a DNAME on my Windows Server 2008 R2 DNS box to...
DNS reddit2692d219Google's DNS entries are creepy
Hi, tonight I scripted a little bit of a my new Java project. In this project I need to resolve DNS entries, so I wrote some lines of code for resolving any kind of DNS record. As I guessed I'm finished, I run the code...
DNS reddit2692d200http://website.com works http://www.website.com doesn't...
Hello everyone. As subject The website is my personal website: http://ayliffe.com this works fine. however, when I add www . in front of it, I get ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED error see: www.ayliffe.com I have domain...
DNS reddit2693d236Anycast with AD?
We have a fairly large Enterprise in which we are redesigning the WAN from a single Internet egress to a regional peering concept. I would like to have our Systems Engineering folks look at Anycast DNS in order to...
DNS reddit2693d233how do I configure my A record for mail AND website so www..
Hi guys, our company is busy with a few new websites. Since a office365 for every website is a huge overkill for now, we use a hosting package from our hoster. Current setup: @ TTL1 A (1.2.3.4 MAIL) @ TTL1 AAA (IPV6...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2693d262Mitsubishi pulls plug on dot-brand gTLD
Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi has told ICANN it no longer wishes to operate one of its dot-brand gTLDs. The company has filed a termination notice covering its .mtpc domain, which stands for Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma...
Jan-Piet Mens2694d412Unbound supports views for local data
BIND’s views are a feature some people like using because they allow a single server instance to respond distinctly depending on, say, the source address used to query the instance. I actually quite dislike BIND views...
Jan-Piet Mens2694d167Unbound supports views for local data
BIND’s views are a feature some people like using because they allow a single server instance to respond distinctly depending on, say, the source address used to query the instance. I actually quite dislike BIND views...
NLnet Labs2695d262ldns 1.7.0 released
Bugfixes and maintenance work, DANE verification delegated to OpenSSL functions, OpenSSL 1.1.0 support
OpenDNS Blog2695d295In the Eye of Hailstorm
This blog post was authored by Jakob Dohrmann, David Rodriguez, and Jaeson Schultz. INTRO The Cisco Talos and Umbrella research teams are deploying a distributed hailstorm detection system which brings together machine...
DNS reddit2695d255Best dns server solution
Hi, i have to configure two new dns server (a master and a slave one), now i'm trying to use powerdns but do you have some advice? There is something better? Thanks anyway submitted by /u/tafazzi87 [link] [comments]
DNS reddit2697d214Is it possible to get hostname from ip not by using PTR...
I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this question, if not please refer me to the right place. For many websites on the internet (for example reddit), there is no PTR record in the dns server, so I cant get the...
DNS reddit2698d187In the three years since IETF said pervasive monitoring is..
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DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2698d274Pheenix adds 300 more registrars to drop-catch arsenal
The domain drop-catching arms race is heating up, with budget player Pheenix this week acquiring 300 more registrar accreditations from ICANN. According to DI records, the company now has almost 500 registrar...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2698d267Neustar agrees to go private in $2.9 billion deal
Struggling infrastructure services firm and domain registry Neustar is set to go private in a $2.9 billion deal. The company, best known for .biz, .co and .us, has agreed to be bought out by a group led by Golden Gate...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2698d255After Zika threat passes, ICANN confirms return to Puerto...
ICANN will hold its first public meeting of 2018 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which was originally supposed to the venue for this October s meeting. ICANN moved ICANN 57 from San Juan to Hyderabad, India in May, at the...
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