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DNS reddit667d147[DNS Leak Test] Is this bad?
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DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)668d64Unstoppable Domains goes down after domain hijack
Unstoppable Domains, operator of the blockchain-based alternative naming system, has had its domain hijacked and is warning customers to be wary of further scams and attacks. Unstoppabledomains.com has been subject to an...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)668d67Four more gTLDs in emergency measures
ICANN has thrown four more gTLDs into the Emergency Back-End Registry Operator program, presumably as a prelude to terminating their registry s contracts in a few weeks. Asia Green IT System s .pars, .shia, .tci and...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)668d96New gTLDs and ccTLDs drive domain universe growth
The seasonally strong first quarter saw growth return to the domain industry, despite .com s continuing woes, according to the latest edition of Verisign s Domain Name Industry Brief. There were 362.4 million domain...
DNS reddit668d83I tried to access my DNS logs and the results look really...
To check my DNS logs, I used those two commands as recommended by another user: Terminal 1: tail -f /private/var/log/system.log Terminal 2: sudo killall -INFO mDNSResponder And I also input this into the search box...
DNS reddit669d245Home Assistant DNS Resolution Error
Posting this here since I believe my issue is related to DNS resolution but please let me know if I’m in the wrong place. The link below details out my issue and the steps taken to troubleshoot:...
DNS reddit669d78Opinion
Is the public mullvad dns good for phone!!! submitted by /u/copy-ninja25 [link] [comments]
DNS reddit669d450Leafdns.com seems to be dead...
I'm getting redirected to https://leafdns.com/lander whenever I try to load this site. Anyone else seeing this? I feel like this is a terrible day for the Internet if leafdns.com is gone!? submitted by...
DNS reddit669d265Name.com URL forwarding fails on chrome
Hello all, Ex-sysadmin here, very rusty. Got a dns problem. I use name.com url forwarding. For example: http://coffee.talktorichard.com is set up as a 301 redirect to my calendly page to book a meeting with me...
DNS reddit671d475Configuring DoH forwarding on BIND9 for Quad9?
Hi everybody, I came across these from the Bind9 documentation recently: https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html#namedconf-statement-forwarders...
DNS reddit671d579Is wildcard NS Delegation Possible?
This might be a really stupid idea/question but I was skimming/CTRL+F'ing RFC 1034/1035 earlier today and don't see why this shouldn't be possible. Basically the title. Let's say I operate example.com and I want to...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)671d94Eight interesting recent dot-brand registrations
If somebody told me that this blog spends altogether too much time shitting on dot-brand gTLDs, I probably wouldn t argue with them very long or hard before conceding they probably have a point. So I thought it might be...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)671d131.me premium sales down
Registry-reserved premium domain sales were down a fair bit last year, according to a summary released by the registry today. DoMEn said it sold €317,500 of premiums last year. That compares to a total of €591,500 in...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)671d125Pride fails to reverse gay domains decline
There are any number of ways gay people can express themselves during Pride, but buying gay-themed domain names doesn t appear to be one of them. Zone files show that the .gay gTLD lost over 700 domains in June, which is...
Jan-Piet Mens672d89X-MS-Bullshit mail reactions
Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided to not address the topic of how plain text is formatted in incoming or outgoing mails or any other of the dozens of errors in the program. Instead they’ve added a “like”-type...
Jan-Piet Mens672d90When my systems send me instructions
It’s close on a quarter century that I worked for a company which had deployed a humongous issue-and-everything tracking system employees detested using. I can’t remember the name of the product, but the vendor’s name...
DNS reddit672d307DNS not propagating in San Jose, CA
I am migrating my ESP from Campaign Monitor to Klaviyo and set up all of my DNS records accordingly almost 8 months ago. They were green lit by Klaviyo and we just started sending email campaigns to a small percentage of...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)672d119Unstoppable announces another new gTLD bid
In the run-up to the 2012 new gTLD application round, we were hard-pressed to find a company willing to announce an application. This time around, announcements are coming out of the blockchain world at the rate of about...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)672d139Blockchain naming firm gets ICANN accreditation
A company heavily involved in promoting blockchain-based domain name alternatives has received its ICANN registrar accreditation, allowing it to sell real domains as well. Switzerland-based Freename s London subsidiary...
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy)672d122ICANN takes over gTLD after Whois failures
ICANN has swooped to take over operation of a new gTLD after it missed its strict thresholds for Whois availability. .nowruz, originally operated by Istanbul-based Asia Green IT System, is now in the Emergency Back-End...
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