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2407d258GoDaddy cancels in-person investor day over coronavirus...
GoDaddy has followed in the footsteps of many other companies and organizations, cancelling a large in-person meeting to avoid exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic. The market-leading registrar, listed on the New York...
2407d263WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! In other news, ICANN 67 was… “muted”
Without wishing to scaremonger about Covid-19, I don t mind admitting that I ve never been so terrified of anything as much in my adult life. I have relatives in their nineties or with existing lung conditions, and I m...
2407d313Facebook WILL sue more registrars for cybersquatting
Facebook has already sued two domain name registrars for alleged cybersquatting and said yesterday that it will sue again. Last week, Namecheap became the second registrar in Facebook s legal crosshairs, sued in in its...
2409d224RFC 8739: Support for Short-Term, Automatically-Renewed...
Quand une Autorité de Certification (AC) émet un certificat numérique, une question de sécurité se pose : que se passe t-il si un attaquant met la main sur la clé privée associée à ce certificat, et peut donc usurper...
2410d228Version 13 d'Unicode
Ce mercredi 11 mars est sortie la version 13 d'Unicode (https://home.unicode.org/announcing-the-unicode-standard-version-13-0/). Une description officielle des principaux changements est disponible...
2410d239ICANN chair: “all options open” on .org deal
ICANN has not yet decided to approve the acquisition of Public Interest Registry by Ethos Capital, but has not ruled out rejecting the deal either. That s according to chair Maarten Botterman, speaking to his...
2411d218Déclic
Encore un livre (https://declic-lelivre.com/) pour parler du pouvoir excessif des GAFA et du capitalisme de surveillance ? Oui mais le sujet n'est pas encore épuisé et chaque livre a un angle différent. Celui-ci est...
2411d7Remote Working at ISC
Tips on Remote Working At ISC we have been working remotely for years.
2411d243Episode 60
We re back with special guest Joe Abley, CTO of PIR, the registry for .ORG. We talk DNSSEC, research ideas, and more. Sadly, the mail bag was empty, but we still found more to talk about: DNS Flag Day 2020 is proposed to...
2412d198Se cacher de qui ? Chiffrement, sécurité informatique et...
Depuis les révélations d'Edward Snowden, il est difficile d'ignorer le fait que des méchants nous espionnent via les outils numériques. Les solutions proposées se limitent fréquemment à la technique : chiffrement de bout...
2413d340Looking up words with DICT
I learned a new word yesterday: chyron . I had use a search engine to find its definition, because dict(1) didn’t find it. (While writing this it occurs to me that maybe macOS’ Dictionary.app has it; it does.) I try...
2415d272$MAILPATH
I’ve known for donkeys’ ages that many Unix shells honour $MAIL : they check the modification time of the file every $MAILCHECK seconds (default: 600) and announce “You have mail”. Back in the days, we then used mail(1)...
2415d287Could .org debate bring back the glory days of ICANN...
ICANN is going to devote 90 minutes to discussing the controversial acquisition of Public Interest Registry by Ethos Capital on Monday, and the sparks could fly. It s actually going to be the first formal session of the...
2415d311The latest industry C-suite musical chairs
There have been several top-level hires at big new gTLD players in the last week. Donuts has announced it has appointed Mina Neuberg as chief marketing officer. Neuberg appears to be a newcomer to the domain industry,...
2416d481Simple solution for outgoing mail from a FreeBSD system
This morning I was asked whether I could answer some questions about a thirteen year old post about Heirloom mailx / nail . It turned out my correspondent wanted to set up their FreeBSD system to send mail from the...
2417d302Poblete to replace Disspain on ICANN board
Chilean registry manager Patricio Poblete will join ICANN s board of directors this October, replacing longstanding member Chris Disspain. The Country Code Names Supporting Organization confirmed Poblete as its new...
2417d326Chinese registrars ask ICANN to waive fees due to...
Almost 50 registries and registrars based in China have asked ICANN to temporarily waive its fees due to the economic impact they say Covid-19 the new Coronavirus is having on them. They ve all put their names to a...
2417d307Most languages won’t be available at ICANN 67
Translation services are the first component of ICANN 67 to fail victim to the org s decision to hold the meeting entirely online. ICANN announced last week that it has cancelled the in-person meeting, which had been due...
2418d277PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0 Released
Hello!, We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0. Compared to the last release candidate, only two very minor issues were fixed. Compared to the 4.2 release of PowerDNS Recursor, the most important...
2419d278Tests pour des programmes en ligne de commande
Tout développeur sait bien qu'il faut tester les programmes. Et il ou elle sait également qu'il doit s'agir de tests entièrement automatiques, pouvant être exécutés très souvent, idéalement à chaque changement du code ou...
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