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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2276d | 291 | ICANN washes its hands of Amazon controversy ICANN has declined to get involved in the seemingly endless spat between Amazon and the governments representing the Amazonia region of South American. CEO Göran Marby has written to the head of the Amazon Cooperation... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2276d | 256 | NamesCon Online ditches NameJet for GoDaddy auctions The NamesCon conference will this year use GoDaddy s platform for its live premium domain auction, apparently ditching its long-time partner NameJet. Conference organizers told attendees today that submissions are now... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2277d | 286 | Google’s .new now generally available After many months of pre-launch registration periods, Google has taken its .new gTLD to general availability today. Names in .new are not cheap, have strict usage restrictions, and are not available at most of the larger... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2277d | 274 | $11 billion dot-brand blames coronavirus as it... Another new gTLD you ve never heard of and don t care about has asked ICANN to terminate its registry contract, but it has a rather peculiar reason for doing so. The registry is Shriram Capital, the financial services... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2277d | 290 | ICANN still has no clue how coronavirus will affect the... ICANN is still in the dark about how the coronavirus pandemic is going to affect the domain industry s fortunes and its own budget, judging by a blog post published overnight by CEO Göran Marby. In the post, Marby... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2278d | 248 | ICANN throws out “Ugly Houses” UDRP appeal ICANN has rejected an unprecedented attempt to get a UDRP decision overturned using the Reconsideration process. The Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee late last week summarily dismissed a Request for... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2278d | 233 | Second Alpha Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.0 Hello!, We are proud to announce the second alpha release of what should become PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.0. Compared to the first alpha release, this release mostly contains bug fixes and code cleanup. In particular, fixes... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2281d | 219 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.3 and 4.2.4 Released Hello!, Today we are releasing PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.3 and 4.2.4. These releases fix an issue where the refresh time of a loaded RPZ zone was ignored. A DNSSEC issue that could lead to zones being marked Bogus wrongly... |
| Miek Gieben | 2281d | 267 | Script to Upgrade to Latest Go version This is my super simple script to upgrade to a newer Go version. You might find it handy as well. #!/bin/zsh GODIR=~/up function latestGo { local LATEST=$(curl -s 'https://golang.org/dl/?mode=json' | jq -r... |
| Miek Gieben | 2281d | 75 | Programmings |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2282d | 283 | Brazil to launch domains for detectives, librarians and... Bucking the worldwide trend for major ccTLDs to simplify their namespaces, Brazil is poised to launch another dozen new third-level domain options. NIC.br said last week that it will launch five open spaces and seven... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2282d | 281 | Endurance also got a lockdown bump in Q2 Endurance International Group added its name to the list of registrars to see a lift from the coronavirus pandemic in the second quarter. The company, which counts brands including Domain.com, BuyDomains and ResellerClub... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2282d | 329 | Nominet wants to kill off the .uk drop-catching market Nominet has revealed a sweeping set of policy proposals that would totally revamp how expired domains are deleted and could essentially kill off drop-catching in the .uk domains market. The company is thinking about... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2284d | 260 | RFC 8799: Limited Domains and Internet Protocols Il y a depuis longtemps un débat sur l'architecture de l'Internet : dans quelle mesure faut-il un Internet uniforme, où tout est pareil partout, et dans quelle mesure faut-il au contraire des particularités qui ne... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2284d | 263 | Right to reply: new gTLD applicant hits back at my... You may recall that I recently referred to Nameshop, a rejected new gTLD applicant, as delusional for attempting to get ICANN to grant it .internet to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. I ve not really pulled my... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2284d | 317 | One.com takes big chunk of Danish market with third... European registrar One.com says it is now the biggest player in the Danish market after acquiring rival Larsen Data, which does business as GratisDNS, for an undisclosed sum. One.com says that the deal means it now... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2284d | 232 | Web.com acquires another of the original five registrars Consolidation in the domain industry continues apace, with Web.com bringing one of the remaining original five competitive registrars into its stable for AUD 12.2 million ($8.3 million) in cash. It s acquiring an... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2290d | 265 | Mucho weirdness as Google “forgets” to renew major domain Google has lost control of a key domain name, breaking millions of URLs used by its customers. It emerged today that the domain blogspot.in expired in May and was deleted around June 24. It was promptly re-registered via... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2291d | 266 | First deadbeat dot-brand ripped from the root ICANN has terminated a dot-brand gTLD contract for non-payment of fees for the first time. The unlucky recipient of the termination notice is aigo, a privately held Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer. ICANN first... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2291d | 253 | Coronavirus helps .nl beat 6 million regs Dutch ccTLD .nl passed the six-million-domains milestone recently due in part to a surge in registrations during coronavirus lockdown. According to SIDN, the registry, the six millionth domain was deyogiclub.nl and it... |
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