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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2491d | 329 | Q3 industry growth driven by .tk, .com and .icu The domain name industry grew by 5.1 million names in the third quarter, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief from Verisign. September ended with 359.8 million names across the board, the DNIB (pdf) shows.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2493d | 321 | ICANN throws out second .org appeal, so URS stays The Uniform Rapid Suspension process is to stay in .org, after the ICANN board of directors rejected an appeal from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF had challenged the inclusion of URS in the recently... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2494d | 349 | Warning (or threat?) prices must go up or .org will suffer.. Public Interest Registry s new commercial owner will have to raise domain prices significantly, or .org web sites will suffer over three days of downtime every year, one of its subcontractors has warned. The claim came... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2494d | 363 | IP address of machine on console I quite often spin up virtual machines on which to test something, and typically wish to access them via SSH, but I cannot easily, as I don’t know their dynamically assigned IP or I’ve forgotten the IP I assigned... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2496d | 300 | Russian company approved as gTLD escrow provider ICANN has approved Russian internet exchange point MSK-IX as its 10th gTLD data escrow provider. The organization said that week that Joint Stock Company Internet Exchange MSK-IX has been added to its roster of companies... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2496d | 340 | The box C'est une banalité que de choisir le conteneur comme symbole de la mondialisation. Mais comment en est-on arrivé là ? Qui a inventé le conteneur et pourquoi ? Comment s'est-il imposé ? Je trouve que Marc Levinson a fait... |
| ISC.org | 2496d | 9 | Happy holidays from ISC! Once again, it s time to look back over the last year and tell our customers, users, and supporters how much we appreciate them. |
| Miek Gieben | 2496d | 352 | Netherlands After nearly 7 years in the UK it is time to move back to Nijmegen in the Netherlands! My wife starts a new job in the new year, so no more NLGids London. Almost everything for the move has been taken care off (house,... |
| Miek Gieben | 2496d | 77 | Meta |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2497d | 531 | Vérifier le nom dans un certificat : pas trivial J'ai récemment eu à écrire un programme qui se connecte en TLS à un serveur et devait donc vérifier le certificat. La bibliothèque TLS utilisée ne vérifie pas que le nom dans le certificat correspond au nom demandé,... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2498d | 285 | A bit of fun with awk I learned a few tidbits in awk this week. awk is a language I have, at best, looked at only very superficially, even though I use it frequently if very basically: to chop a line into fields. I tend to use it more than... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2499d | 282 | Guy gets 14 years for trying to steal a domain with a gun An American man has received a sentence of 14 years in prison after being found guilty of a plot to steal a domain name at gunpoint. Rossi Lorathio Adams II received the sentence on Monday, according to the US Attorney’s... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2499d | 348 | GoDaddy girls often make more money than the men Women in some roles at GoDaddy are making more money than their male counterparts, according to data released by the registrar today. In technical positions in the US, female employees are making on average $1.03 for... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2499d | 295 | Non-coms want .org’s future carved in stone ICANN s non-commercial stakeholders have demanded changes to Public Interest Registry s .org contract, to protect registrants for the next couple of decades. The NCSG sent a letter to ICANN chair Maarten Botterman this... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2500d | 266 | First Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0 Hello!, We are proud to announce the first beta release of what should become PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0. Compared to the third alpha release, this release enables QName-Minimization by default and introduces a less strict... |
| ISC.org | 2500d | 11 | Encrypted DNS: DoH vs. DoT Webinar - January 15, 2020 We were delighted to see so much interest in our December 2019 webinar on encrypted DNS! |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2501d | 437 | On building an Ansible training environment on FreeBSD In the course of the last three years I’ve had the pleasure of doing a lot of teaching, and it really has mostly been a pleasure. I take teaching very seriously and invest quite a bit of energy to bring my love for a... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2501d | 310 | Kamel’s deputy gets promoted at ICANN ICANN has promoted Mandy (Kathryn) Carver to the position of senior VP for governmental and intergovernmental engagement, replacing her late boss, Tarek Kamel. Carver has been with ICANN for 13 years and reported to... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2501d | 316 | ICANN delays approval of .org acquisition Ethos Capital is going to have to wait a little longer for ICANN to sign off its acquisition of .org operator Public Interest Registry. ICANN said today that it has asked PIR and the Internet Society, which currently... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2502d | 251 | PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0-alpha1 Hello! We are proud to announce the first alpha release of what should become PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0. So far this is mostly a maintenance release. A lot of internals have been reworked, with some visible changes... |
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