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2162d282.forum sunrise period will cost less than half the regular..
Trademark owners rejoice! There s a new gTLD registry seemingly not bent on ripping you off during its sunrise period. Those defensively registering their marks in .forum, which begins its sunrise period on Monday, in...
2162d208Quand les gens déconnent, faut-il déréférencer leurs...
J'ai parlé plusieurs fois positivement, sur ce blog (/search?pattern=pinçon-charlot), des livres des Pinçon-Charlot. Maintenant que Monique Pinçon-Charlot a tenu des propos délirants dans le documentaire complotiste...
2163d256.trust finds a new home with UNR
UNR has acquired the contract to run the .trust new gTLD. According to ICANN records, the registry agreement was transferred to UNR, the registry arm of the former Uniregistry, back in June. It s the second time the TLD...
2163d174Kubernetes control plane for Debian/Ubuntu machines?
The everything is a object in Kubernetes is a very strong notion. The ability to influence it with kubectl makes for one only one control plane. The networking, ingress, discovery, installation, etc. are all not that...
2163d259Kubernetes Control Plane for Debian?
The everything is a object in Kubernetes is a very nice abstraction. The ability to influence it with just kubectl makes for only one control plane (to learn). The networking, ingress, discovery, installation, etc. are...
2163d221Une nuit @thecallcenter
Un roman de Chetan Bhagat très drôle et très vivant, mais sur un sujet pas forcément amusant, celui des travailleurs de l'ombre du call center en Inde.
2166d284Web.com acquires Kiwi registrar Freeparking
Web.com has acquired what it calls New Zealand s largest registrar, Freeparking. Freeparking, not to be confused with other registrars of the same name, was part of the Umbrellar Group of web services companies....
2168d247RFC 8927: JSON Type Definition
Il existe plusieurs langages pour décrire la structure d'un document JSON. Aucun ne fait l'objet d'un clair consensus. Sans compter les nombreux programmeurs qui ne veulent pas entendre parler d'un schéma formel. Ce...
2169d203The weather machine
C'est vrai, ça, comment on prédit le temps ? On va sur le site Web de son choix qui présente la météo des jours suivants, on bien on a une application qui récupère ça et affiche dans un coin de votre écran soleil ou...
2170d224GoDaddy set to pay millions to settle robocalling class...
GoDaddy is due to pay off a bunch of class action lawyers millions of dollars to settle a lawsuit alleging historical illegal robocalling practices, while giving affected customers a lousy $35 apiece. The lawyers have...
2170d254Tributes as “great mentor” Marilyn Cade dies
Social media was flooded with tributes today after it was sadly announced that one of ICANN s elder statespeople, Marilyn Cade, has died. Cade, who participated in ICANN and the wider internet governance community for...
2170d195Authoritative 4.4.0-alpha3
Hello! we are very happy to announce version 4.4.0-alpha3 of the Authoritative Server. (A painful bug in the LMDB backend was found just as we started the Alpha 2 release process, so we decided to skip right on to Alpha...
2170d238GoDaddy sees 12% growth in domains revenue
GoDaddy delivered another quarter of impressive growth in the third quarter, showing again the resilience of the domain name market to the coronavirus pandemic. The company reported total revenue up 11% on the same...
2171d215One-letter .lu domains could be bought for peanuts
Luxembourg s ccTLD registry is auctioning off 2,825 one and two-character .lu domain names, and so far bids are looking very affordable. The names have been reserved for two decades, but Restena began releasing them to...
2171d243Another domain firm going private as Endurance announces...
Endurance International, owner of registrar brands including Domain.com, BigRock and BuyDomains, plans to go private in a $3 billion private equity deal. The buyer is Clearlake Capital group, in what appears to be its...
2171d214Verisign increases focus on .com after flogging public DNS..
Neustar has taken another nibble at former archrival Verisign, buying the company s public DNS resolution service. The companies announced yesterday that Neustar has acquired Verisign Public DNS, and will incorporate it...
2175d52Tweets of October 31 2020
Replying to @FlynnRoad and @googlenest If you make a new speaker in the home app you can cast to the speaker. That works for me Sat Oct 31 14:46:02 +0000 2020 Replying to @FlynnRoad and @googlenest Twice this week... Sat...
2176d272Blood on the boardroom floor after MMX admits revenue...
MMX s top two execs are out, after the new gTLD registry admitted that the company misstated its revenue in 2019 and the first half of 2020. CEO Toby Hall and CFO Michael Salazar both quit from the board and their...
2178d293Angry investor sues for 30% of new .spa gTLD
Barely had the new gTLD .spa made it into the DNS root than it got sued by a company that claims it was stiffed out of a 30% stake in the domain. Malaysia-based Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council, the newly minted...
2178d260Amazon sold rights to .box gTLD for $3 million
Amazon relinquished its rights to the .box gTLD five years ago for $3 million, according to court documents seen by DI. Amazon was one of two applicants for .box, the other being a company called NS1 (that s the numeral...
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