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2911d303Donuts quietly buys .shopping from Uniregistry (and...
Just a few months after Uniregistry bought out Donuts to win .shopping, Donuts has bought the pre-launch gTLD back. Donuts has also bought live gTLD .jetzt from a Swedish company. The .shopping deal is a weird one....
2911d293Nominet to run .blog’s back-end
Nominet is to run the back-end registry systems for .blog, the company announced this evening. We reported earlier today that .blog has a surprise new owner Knock Knock, Whois There, which belongs to Automattic, owner of...
2911d332Read My Lips: Let’s Kill 0Day
0day is cool.  Killing 0day, sight unseen, at scale that’s cooler. If you agree with me, you might be my kind of defender, and the upcoming O’Reilly Security Conference(s) might be your kind of cons. Don’t get me wrong....
2912d306Radix joins the Hollywood content police
Radix has become the second major gTLD registry to announce a content policing deal with the movie industry. It today said it has signed an agreement with the Motion Picture Association of America similar to the one...
2912d390WordPress reveals IT bought .blog for $19 million
WordPress.com owner Automattic has outed itself as the bankroll behind the winner of the .blog auction and the new owner of the forthcoming new gTLD. Founder Matt Mullenweg also revealed that the company paid around $19...
2912d2586 reasons I like Wintergatan
6 reasons I like Wintergatan If you have not yet seen the Wintergatan Marble Machine video, you should. It is totally amazing: a musical instrument and a Heath Robinson machine and a marble run and a great tune. It has...
2912d280RFC 7793: Add 100.64.0.0/10 prefixes to IPv4...
Il existe un registre (http://www.iana.org/assignments/locally-served-dns-zones/locally-served-dns-zones.xml) des zones DNS qui doivent être gérées localement par le résolveur DNS et pour lesquelles les requêtes ne sont...
2912d310Watch Live TODAY – DNSSEC Root KSK Ceremony 25 – 13:00 EDT..
Starting in about 45 minutes, at 13:00 local time in Culpeper, Virginia, which is 17:00 UTC, you have the opportunity to watch the live stream of the Root KSK key-signing ceremony #25. More info can be found here: DNSSEC...
2913d344World’s first vanity gTLD goes live
Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li has become the first person to own a top-level domain matching his name. The new gTLD .richardli went live on the internet today. The registry is Pacific Century Asset Management (HK)...
2913d276Afilias takes over .hotel, sidelines Krischenowski over...
Afilias has sought to distance itself from DotBerlin CEO Dirk Krischenowski, due to ongoing claims that he improperly accessed secret data on rival .hotel applicants. The company revealed in a recent letter to ICANN that...
2913d274Web.com acquires dozens of registrars from Rightside
Web.com has acquired dozens of registrars from rival/partner Rightside, seemingly to boost the success rate of its SnapNames domain drop-catching business. I ve established that at least 44 registrars once managed by...
2913d301Rightside to modernize eNom, predicts $75m new gTLD revs
Rightside used its first quarter earnings call yesterday to address, albeit indirectly, some of the criticisms recently leveled at it by activist investors and competitors. CEO Taryn Naidu revealed for the first time how...
2914d301.flir becomes the 1,300th TLD
There are now 1,300 top-level domains live on the internet. The milestone was hit today when the dot-brand .flir was delegated to FLIR Systems, a $1.5 billion-a-year thermal imaging systems manufacturer. Its nic.flir...
2914d274PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 Alpha 3 released
Hot on the heels of yesterday s release of the Recursor follows today s release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 Alpha 3. We inted to go beta with the Autoritative Server after this release so please test and...
2914d311RFC 7830: The EDNS(0) Padding Option
Ce nouveau RFC fait partie de la série de ceux qui tentent d'améliorer la situation du DNS pour tout ce qui concerne la protection de la vie privée. Parmi les efforts dans ce domaine, il y a une possibilité de...
2914d302PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 3 released
We are pleased to announce the release of the PowerDNS recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 3. This release features a great number of DNSSEC correctness fixes. Changes from 4.0.0 Alpha 2 are: #3752 Correct handling of query flags in...
2914d296ZACR wades into .africa lawsuit, tells judge he screwed up
ZA Central Registry has told the judge in DotConnectAfrica s lawsuit against ICANN that the preliminary injunction he granted DCA recently was based on a misunderstanding. The injunction, granted a month ago, prevents...
2915d272With Zika fears, is ICANN dissing Latin America?
Internet organizations in Latin America are pissed off with ICANN for cancelling its Panama public meeting and potentially cancelling its Puerto Rico meeting. They said that the cancellations will have a direct negative...
2915d228Mmark Updates
Recent bug reports prompted some Mmark development (guess I am into bug-driven development). New releases can be found on Github . Anyway Mmark saw some bug fixes and new features: A feature/pull request from...
2915d189Mmark Updates
Recent bug reports prompted some Mmark development (guess I am into bug-driven development). New releases can be found on Github. Anyway Mmark saw some bug fixes and new features: A feature/pull request from blackfriday...
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