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2143d263.org made $97 million last year
Public Interest Registry has published its 2019 tax returns, revealing a top line of $97.1 million. That s a tad under the $101.1 million it reported for 2018, presumably due to the declining number of .org domains under...
2143d226RFC 8948: Structured Local Address Plan (SLAP) Quadrant...
Les adresses MAC sur 48 bits, normalisées par l'IEEE, ont un bit qui indique si l'adresse découle d'un plan mondial et est donc globalement unique, ou bien si elle a été allouée via une méthode locale. Plus récemment,...
2143d246RFC 8947: Link-Layer Addresses Assignment Mechanism for...
L'utilisation de DHCP pour attribuer des adresses IP est bien connue. Ce nouveau RFC spécifie comment utiliser DHCP pour attribuer des adresses MAC.
2143d241XYZ launches its beauty-themed gTLDs with slashed prices
XYZ.com is readying the launch of its four recently acquired beauty-themed gTLDs, along with one other. .skin, .hair .makeup and .beauty entered their sunrise periods today, where they will stay until February 10. All...
2143d217“Criminal” domain suspensions drop again in .uk but...
Nominet suspended thousands fewer suspected criminal domains in 2020 than last year, according to the registry s latest annual update. For the 12 months to the end of October, Nominet took down 22,158 domains, is down...
2144d206NameSilo in profit as sales rise 11%
Canadian registrar NameSilo today reported a profit for the third quarter, as bookings increased 11% sequentially over the three months to September 30. One of the fastest-growing registrars, the company said that as of...
2144d275RFC 8945: Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS...
Le DNS a des vulnérabilités à plusieurs endroits, notamment des risques d'usurpation, qui permettent de glisser une réponse mensongère à la place de la bonne. Il existe plusieurs solutions pour ces problèmes, se...
2144d230RFC 8952: Captive Portal Architecture
Les portails captifs sont ces insupportables pages Web vers lesquels certains réseaux d'accès en WiFi vous détournent pour vous faire laisser des données personnelles avant d'avoir accès à l'Internet. Très répandus dans...
2144d10Support Open Source
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2144d188CentralNic more than doubles revenue as parking business...
CentralNic today reported revenue growth of 118% for the nine months to September 30, largely on the back of its recently acquired domain monetization business. The company said it made a net loss after tax of $6.2...
2145d198WIPO handles 50,000th UDRP case as coronavirus drives...
The World Intellectual Property Organization handled its 50,000th UDPR case on November 20, the organization has announced. It s taken WIPO, which designed the policy and was the first to administer it back in 1999, over...
2145d201Brits get small reprieve in Brexit domain crackdown
The .eu registry has given UK-based registrants an extra window to keep hold of their domains, which will soon be deleted due to Brexit. Brits were originally set to lose their .eu names at the end of the year, due to...
2145d202Expliquer le fonctionnement de l'Internet en quarante...
Le 26 novembre 2020, j'ai participé à une formation à l'UTC où il fallait expliquer le fonctionnement de l'Internet à des étudiants en développement Web. Pas facile.
2145d63Tweets of November 30 2020
Even though everything mandates TLS in k8s/k3s there is no good answer to updating/rotating/distributing them?? Mon Nov 30 13:14:59 +0000 2020 Replying to @bboreham looks too high level, i.e more focused on application...
2146d385Le protocole Gemini, revenir à du simple et sûr pour...
Comme beaucoup de gens, je trouve que le Web, tout en étant un immense succès, souffre de plusieurs défauts. Tous ne proviennent pas de la technique, mais certains peuvent quand même être reliés à des choix lors de la...
2147d194Paris démasqué
Le citadin arrogant peut imaginer que les légendes, les monstres, les histoires irrationnelles ne naissent qu'à la campagne, chez des ruraux mal dégrossis, les seuls à croire à ces récits fantastiques. Mais les villes...
2148d210Goodbye DNS, Goodbye PowerDNS!
After over 20 years of DNS and PowerDNS, I am moving on. Separate from this page, I am releasing a series of three huge posts on the history of PowerDNS, so I won’t dwell too much on that here. This is not an easy story...
2150d211PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.1 and 4.3.6 Released
Hello!, Today we are releasing PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.1 and 4.3.6. These releases fix a bug where a reply from an authoritative server could get lost, causing timeouts or ServFail answers to clients. Additionally, an...
2150d240Le service MySocket, pour donner un accès Internet à ses...
Le service MySocket (https://www.mysocket.io/) vient d'être lancé. À quoi ça sert ? À plusieurs choses mais le scénario d'utilisation le plus évident est le cas où vous avez un service TCP/IP sur une machine de...
2151d278Vaccine agency to get more domain takedown powers next...
The UK s health regulator is going to be added to a Nominet pilot program enabling the speedy takedown of suspected criminal .uk domains next year, according to the registry. The Medicines and Healthcare products...
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