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2472d283Historique dans RDAP
Le protocole RDAP permet d'obtenir des informations sur une ressource enregistrée dans un registre, par exemple un RIR. Une extension permet d'avoir accès à l'histoire d'une ressource.
2473d315Now .org critics actually want to take over the registry,...
A group of ICANN alumni and non-profits want to block the $1.135 billion sale of .org manager Public Interest Registry and for ICANN to hand over the reins to a new not-for-profit entity. The Cooperative Corporation of...
2475d445Anonymous FTP server on OpenBSD
I’ve been building a few packages for OpenBSD , and being a lazy sort, I thought I’d set up an anonymous FTP server via which the machines I’m working on (the builder and the pristine test candidate) can talk to each...
2478d333BREAKING: Verisign pays ICANN $20 million and gets to...
Verisign is to get the right to raise the price of .com domains by 7% per year, under a new contract with ICANN. The deal, announced this hour, will also see Verisign pay ICANN $20 million over five years, starting in...
2478d298ICANN predicts shrinkage in new gTLD sector
ICANN will make less money from new gTLDs in its fiscal 2021 because fewer domains will be registered and renewed, according to its recently published draft budget. The budget, released the day ICANN broke up for its...
2478d347Episode 59
In this episode, Matt and Cricket are joined by Cricket s recent co-author, John Belamaric, to discuss CoreDNS, a DNS server built to act as a service discovery engine in containerized environments, particularly those...
2479d296ASO uses super powers to demand ICANN turn over .org...
In an unprecedented move, ICANN s Address Supporting Organization has exercised its special powers to demand ICANN hand over documents relating to the Ethos Capital acquisition of .org s Public Interest Registry. There s...
2480d25050 ans
Non, ce n'est pas mon âge. Mais, aujourd'hui, l'« epoch » d'Unix et de l'Internet a cinquante ans.
2481d58Tweets of December 31 2019
RT @mdlayher: After just a few days of development, I ve got an alpha build of CoreRAD running on my router and successfully advertising pr… Tue Dec 31 17:11:11 +0000 2019 RT @mipsytipsy: wrong wrong so wrong annnnd...
2481d283Now PIR rubbishes .org “downtime” claims
Two of Public Interest Registry s top geeks have come out swinging against recent claims that .org will suffer days of downtime if PIR is acquired by Ethos Capital. Chief technology officer Joe Abley and Susanne Woolf,...
2482d300DI Leaders Roundtable #4 — Big predictions for 2020
Hindsight is 2020, right? Not this time! We re rolling up to the end of the year, so for the fourth DI Leaders Roundtable I thought I d task my panel of industry experts with the wholly original and unpredictable...
2483d284Migration de tous mes dépôts de développement vers un...
Je viens de terminer la migration de tous mes dépôts de développement logiciel actifs (et quelques inactifs) vers un GitLab, suite au rachat de GitHub par Microsoft, en 2018.
2483d412Analyse technique du résolveur DNS public chinois 114dns
Aujourd'hui, nous allons regarder de près un résolveur DNS public, le "114.114.114.114", qui présente la particularité d'être géré en Chine. Il y a de nombreuses choses étranges sur ce service, qui distrairont les...
2485d357TCP Wrappers and Mosquitto
Two days ago, on Christmas Day to be precise, I was asked whether access to the Mosquitto broker can be limited by IP address, and after saying “no”, because Mosquitto ACLs don’t provide for that, I recalled TCP Wrappers...
2488d277RFC 8700: Fifty Years of RFCs
Ce nouveau RFC marque le cinquantième anniversaire des RFC (https://www.rfc-editor.org/history/fifty-years-of-rfcs/). Le RFC 1 avait en effet été publié le 7 avril 1969. Ce RFC 8700, publié avec un certain retard,...
2488d305Afilias denies .org will go down post-acquisition
.org domains will not suffer downtime as a result of Ethos Capital s acquisition of Public Interest Registry, according to Afilias. Afilias, which provides PIR s back-end registry services, wrote to ICANN (pdf) last week...
2489d328Palestine to release all one-character .ps domains, at a...
In a couple of weeks, you ll be able to register single-character domains under the Palestinian ccTLD, .ps. Local registry PNINA, the Palestinian Nation Internet Naming Authority, says that on January 6 at 0800 UTC it...
2489d287PIR thinks 20-year domain regs are a good idea
Want to lock in the price of a .org domain for 20 years? Public Interest Registry thinks that might be a good idea. In a blog post, head of policy Paul Diaz wrote: PIR supports the ICANN community conducting policy work...
2489d288Amazon beats South America! Dot-brand contracts now signed
Amazon has prevailed in its seven-year battle to obtain the right to run .amazon as a branded top-level domain. The company signed contracts for .amazon and the Chinese and Japanese translations on Thursday, despite...
2489d48Terug naar Nederland
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