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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| PowerDNS Blog | 2073d | 236 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.1 Hello! We are proud to announce version 4.4.1 of the Authoritative Server. This releases fixes several small issues discovered since the release of 4.4.0. Please find a full list in the changelog. Please make sure to... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2074d | 176 | RFC 8989: Additional Criteria for Nominating Committee... L'épidémie de Covid-19 a remis en cause pas mal de choses dans nos sociétés, des fois très gravement. En moins dramatique, elle oblige l'IETF à adapter ses processus, étant donné qu'aucune réunion en présentiel n'a pu se... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2076d | 167 | ShortDot adds fourth gTLD to its stable, plans March... Another unused new gTLD has changed hands, ending up at ShortDot, the registry best-known for high-volume .icu. ShortDot confirmed to DI today that it has acquired .cfd from its former owner, DotCFD. The original plan... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2076d | 201 | Nominet boss has epiphany and calls for calm as his job... Nominet s CEO has abruptly taken a conciliatory tone with members in a new blog post, as support grows for his ouster. Russell Haworth today posted that the organization and its members need to change the tone of their... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2076d | 178 | One year on, Namecheap still fighting aborted .org... Even though Ethos Capital s proposed takeover of Public Interest Registry was rejected last May, registrar Namecheap is still doggedly pursuing legal action against ICANN s handling of the deal, regardless. The... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2078d | 213 | Defensive windfall on the cards for .spa? It’s not just... Forthcoming new gTLD .spa has published its planned launch dates and registrations policies, and it s not just for spas any more. Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council, the registry, has informed ICANN that it plans to... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2078d | 205 | Two more dot-brands take the easy way out A US insurance giant with close to $50 billion in annual revenue has taken the decision to kill off its two dormant dot-brand gTLDs. Nationwide Mutual Insurance has informed ICANN that it wants to cancel its .nationwide... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2078d | 179 | RobinHood.club showered with five-star reviews after .com... In a world where it s still common for internet users to automatically assume companies use the .com version of their brand, instead of a new gTLD, it s sometimes refreshing to see the opposite scenario occur. It was a... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2078d | 174 | EURid reports 3% growth in final quarter before Brexit... The .eu ccTLD grew by 108,682 in the fourth quarter of 2020, the last reporting period before the full impact of Brexit is felt. The registry said this week that it ended December with 3,684,984 names under management, a... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2078d | 189 | Webcentral to change its branding yet again after tricky... Pioneering Aussie registrar Webcentral is to undergo yet another rebranding under its new ownership. The company said last week that its new strategy will include the transition to a single brand, with a standardised set... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2078d | 198 | Fire the board! Registrars attempt a coup at Nominet The registrars are revolting again at Nominet. Members representing 12.2% of the .uk registry s voting rights have put their names to a call for all five of the company s unelected directors, including CEO Russell... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2079d | 178 | .club back over a million names as Clubhouse drives growth The .club gTLD s zone file is back into seven figures as of last week, largely due no doubt to the increasing popularity of the new Clubhouse app. As of yesterday, 1,005,145 domains could be found in the .club file, up... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2079d | 166 | Eight years after asking, Israel to get its Hebrew ccTLD Israel is likely to be awarded the Hebrew-script version of its ccTLD, at a meeting of ICANN s board of directors next week. ICANN is poised to approved ישראל. (the dot goes on the right, in accordance with Hebrew... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2079d | 185 | First Alpha Release of DNSDist 1.6.0 Hello! We are proud to announce the first alpha release of dnsdist 1.6.0. This release contains several new exciting features, as well as improvements and bug fixes. In our view, the most exciting new feature is the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2080d | 168 | Time is running out for Net4 as ICANN questions Indian... Struggling registrar Net 4 India has been hit with an unprecedented fourth concurrent breach-of-contract notice by ICANN, but an Indian court has ruled that ICANN should NOT terminate its accreditation. It also turns out... |
| ISC.org | 2081d | 7 | Managing BIND 9 - Webinar Series Practical BIND 9 Management BIND 9 can produce an extensive array of log messages and metrics. |
| Miek Gieben | 2082d | 49 | Tweets of January 31 2021 Replying to @bexcran and @dave_universetf mutt Sun Jan 31 08:08:39 +0000 2021 In this lockdown I didn t change my terminal font (Anonymous Pro), nor did I change my shell prompt (https://github.com/miekg/lean/). I think... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2083d | 177 | RFC 8959: The "secret-token" URI Scheme Enregistrer une clé privée (ou tout autre secret) dans un dépôt public (par exemple sur GitHub) est un gag courant. La nature des VCS fait qu'il est souvent difficile de retirer cette clé. Pour limiter un peu les dégâts,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2085d | 200 | UNR getting out of the registry business with $17 million... UNR, the former Uniregistry, plans to auction off its portfolio of 23 new gTLD contracts in April. The company, owned by domain investor Frank Schilling, said on a new web site at auction.link: In a move to completely... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2085d | 165 | Amid .club boom, one AV vendor is blocking the whole damn... .club may be experiencing a mini-boom in sales due to the popular new Clubhouse app, but one antivirus vendor has reportedly decided to block the entire TLD. According to Forbes, the free MalwareBytes Browser Guard... |
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