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DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2739d300ICANN has $400m in the bank
ICANN ended its fiscal 2016 with just shy of $400 million on its balance sheet, according to its just-released financial report. As of June 30, the organization had assets of $399.6 million, up from $376.5 million a year...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2739d292Thick Whois coming to .com next year, price rise to...
Verisign could be running a thick Whois database for .com, .net and .jobs by mid-2017, under a new ICANN proposal. A timetable published this week would see the final three hold-out gTLDs fully move over to the standard...
PowerDNS Blog2739d250Some good news on powerdns.org
Way way back in the history of PowerDNS, we bought the full suite of domain names for our new company: powerdns.com, powerdns.net, powerdns.org. Alternate names for the company we considered at the time were SuperDNS and...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2740d296Radix acquires .fun gTLD from Warren Buffett
New gTLD portfolio player Radix has acquired the pre-launch TLD .fun from its original owner. The company took over the .fun Registry Agreement from Oriental Trading Company on October 4, according to ICANN records....
ISOC Deploy360 DNSSEC2741d281RIPE 73 – Highlights from Day 1
The RIPE 73 meeting is happening this week in Madrid. Spain is less than sunny at this time of the year, but who cares about the weather outside when there s plenty of interesting talks to listen to inside? 670...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2741d273Uniregistry says it was unaffected by mother of all DDoS...
Almost 50 top-level domains were believed to be exposed to the massive distributed denial-of-service attack that hit Dyn on Friday, but the largest of the bunch said it managed to stay online throughout. As has been...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)2741d299Big brands condemn “fraudulent” .feedback gTLD in ICANN...
Top Level Spectrum has been accused today of running the gTLD .feedback in a fraudulent and deceptive manner. Over a dozen famous brands, corralled by corporate registrar MarkMonitor, today formally complained to ICANN...
DNS reddit2741d198The DNS Attack: What It Means, "Who Did It?" and How To...
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DNS reddit2743d211Pi-Hole: A DNS-based blacklist for ads and tracking for...
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DNS reddit2743d234Q: Why do so many major services use ONLY a single DNS...
I don't get it... why do so many major Internet services such as Github, Twitter, SoundCloud and more use only a SINGLE provider of DNS hosting? It used to be common practice that you would use more than one DNS provider...
DNS reddit2743d219How to setup alternative DNS in router besides isp
Hiya, Wanted to ask if it is possible to setup separate DNS as a failsafe to my ISP DNS since they have been messing up recently. I have a D-link DIR 868L. I cant seem to find anything about having a router...
DNS reddit2744d217Is there a registry of IPs for popular sites in case DNS...
As far as I know any website can be accessed directly via an IP even if all DNS servers are down. Does any website hold a registry of IPs for popular sites (or tons of sites) in case a major DNS breakdown occurred? I...
DNS reddit2744d225CVE-2016-2848: denial of service flaw was found in the way..
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DNS reddit2744d198Introducing Nomulus: an open source top-level domain name...
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DNS reddit2744d211DNS fallback for better resilience
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OpenDNS Blog2745d254Source Seattle 2016 Conference
SOURCE Conference Seattle On October 12th and 13th I was given the opportunity to share some of my Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) research to another SOURCE Conference audience, this time in Seattle, Washington. Day 1...
DNS reddit2745d227Large DDoS attack against Dyn Managed DNS
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DNS reddit2745d206How to Detect DNS Changer Malware in Your Computer?
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DNS reddit2746d205Why would a master server be sending "zone change...
So i've got some packets in wireshark who's info say: Zone change notification response 0xXXXX Under Flags: it says: Zone change notification response, No Error Under queries, it has the name of a zone, for which...
Stéphane Bortzmeyer2746d266RFC 7999: BLACKHOLE Community
Lorsqu'on est soumis à une sérieuse attaque par déni de service volumétrique, il faut parfois sacrifier la machine qui en est la cible, afin de préserver le reste des ressources réseau. On demande alors à son opérateur...
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