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1d1ICANN drops the “man” from Ombudsman
ICANN is looking for a new Ombuds , having quietly dropped the man from Ombudsman following the resignation of Herb Waye. The Org said it has hired a recruitment consultant and put out a call for expressions of interest...
1d1La ferme de compilation Cfarm
Si vous êtes programmeuse ou programmeur, vous avez peut-être des problèmes de portabilité de vos programmes, et vous souhaitez les tester sur d'autres plate-formes que celles où vous avez accès habituellement. C'est le...
2d1Have your say on police domain takedown powers
The UK Parliament wants your input on a new proposed law that would give the police powers to take down domain names and IP addresses. The broad-ranging Criminal Justice Bill 2023 (pdf) would give police the ability to...
2d1Most registrars are shunning ICANN’s new Whois system
Most of the largest domain registrars are not currently participating in ICANN s new Registration Data Request Service, according to my research. I used the RDRS tool to check domains managed by every accredited...
2d1Is Gcore public DNS better is than Google Public DNS?
submitted by /u/imGX9 [link] [comments]
3d2Nominet to take over .gov.uk
Nominet says it has won a competitive tender process with the UK government and will take over the registry for .gov.uk early next year. The registry was previously being managed by Jisc, which runs .ac.uk. Nominet was...
3d2ICANN picks Istanbul for 2024 meeting
The ICANN community will head to Türkiye for the Org s 2024 Annual General Meeting, it has been confirmed. The board of directors picked Istanbul for ICANN 81, which will kick off November 9 next year, according to a...
4d4ICANN’s private Whois data request service goes live
ICANN has this evening gone live with its service that enables anyone to request private Whois data on any gTLD domain. The Registration Data Request Service lets people request contact information on registrants that...
4d3Experience with RFC 2317 reverse delegations?
Hi, we're elaborating the use of RFC 2317 for reverse delegations on our servers for prefixes, that are not exactly /24 or /16, thus not delegatable by the octet boundary. RFC 2317 is from 1999 and I see some more...
4d3.au regs slide on 2LD anniversary
Australia s ccTLD has taken a rare turn for the worse recently in terms of domains under management, around the anniversary of a major name release. .au had 4,227,033 domains today according to the registry s web site....
4d3How does DNS propagation go backwards?
I've been watching the DNS propagate out for a new website we just released using https://www.whatsmydns.net/ . I know it can take up to 72 hours and all that (it's been about 24 so far). That's all good in the 'hood and...
4d3Trying to set a redirect from godaddy
We are trying to forward all traffic from siploki.com - drinkloki.com ive set the redirect in godaddy as a 301 with their domain forwarding, but it is quite slow in loading the drinkloki.com site submitted by...
4d3ICANN accused of power grab over $271 million auction fund
ICANN has acted outside of its powers by ignoring community policy recommendations and leaving its $271 million gTLD auction windfall open to being frittered away on lawyers, according to community members. The...
5d3A registrar is getting blamed for an Israeli war...
Israel-based registrar Wix is being blamed for a gory anti-Hamas web site being promoted by Israeli government officials. A number of recent media reports notably including this one by usually reliable news wire UPI have...
5d3Two more dot-brands bite the dust
Comcast has told ICANN it no longer wishes to operate two of its dot-brand gTLDs, which it hasn t been using. The US cable company said it wants to terminate its Registry Agreements for .comcast and .xfinity but didn t...
5d3Google sells five-figure AI domain and six-figure .ing...
A single-letter domain, an AI-related name, and a category-killer domain hack appear to have been sold by Google Registry during the latest week of its ongoing Early Access Period for the new .ing gTLD. Judging by the...
5d4Dnsbycomodo issue
Hello, I’m trying to move a customer’s dns from dnsbycomodo but they don’t have any account info. I opened a case with support but it’s been being processed for over two weeks without any update. Is there a way to...
5d3.blackfriday is still a bit rubbish
It s Cyber Monday, so this post is 100% OFF the usual price! A decade ago, Black Friday the day after Thanks Giving, on which retailers in the US deeply discount products to drum up sales wasn t really a thing here in...
6d5La réputation
Ce livre (https://lesechappes.com/ouvrages/la-reputation-enquete-sur-la-fabrique-des-filles-faciles/) parle d'un féminicide, l'assassinat de Shaïna Hansye en 2019. Et regarde de près l'environnement où ce crime a eu...
7d4Changing the DNS in your browser
The DNS of your ISP is slow and insecure. You can move to the Cloudflare DNS, which is secure and much faster. Here is how to do it: Change to Cloudflare DNS in browser submitted by /u/Neither_Start4958 [link]...
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