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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 840d | 67 | .ru domains fly off the shelf as Western sanctions bite Russia s ccTLD has posted very impressive growth in registrations for 2023, attributable largely to sanctions related to the country s invasion of Ukraine. ccTLD.ru, the registry for .ru and .рф, reported that it ended... |
| DNS reddit | 840d | 119 | Everybody's aware that Google will start enforcing DMARC... submitted by /u/stuntpope
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| DNS reddit | 840d | 124 | .CO Registration Information Missing I have a client who stated he purchased a .CO domain years ago. He stated it was a one time purchase to own the domain in perpetuity. He's not 100% certain where he purchased the Domain from but is looking around his... |
| DNS reddit | 840d | 119 | CNAME for MailChimp I’m trying to verify MailChimp with my domain which is hosted at Go Daddy. I followed the steps MailChimp provided which includes name and values. Go Daddy says the DNS is updated and should be available within 48 hours... |
| ISC.org | 841d | 4 | BIND Subscriber Edition End User License Agreement BIND Subscriber Edition End User License Agreement v2.0 (BSEEULA or the License) |
| DNS reddit | 841d | 109 | How does a name server verify ownership of a domain? When I buy a domain say through Google and I want to host with another web host I change the nameservers on the registrar to the new host. Then I go on the new host and setup the DNS details but my question is, how does... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 841d | 76 | ICANN picks its first ever Supreme Court After foot-dragging for a decade, ICANN has finally approved a slate of a dozen jurists to act as its de facto Supreme Court. Its board of directors voted at the weekend to create the first-ever Independent Review... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 841d | 87 | Lebanon’s ccTLD going back to Lebanon after ICANN takeover ICANN s board of directors has voted to redelegate Lebanon s ccTLD to the country s local Internet Society chapter, six months after the Org took it over as an emergency caretaker. The resolution, passed at the weekend,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 841d | 104 | ICANN picks the domain it will never, ever release ICANN has picked the TLD string that it will recommend for safe use behind corporate firewalls on the basis that it will never, ever be delegated. The string is .internal, and the choice is now open for public comment.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 841d | 59 | ICANN approves domain takedown rules ICANN s board of directors has formally approved amendments to its standard registry and registrar contracts aimed at forcing companies to take action against domains involved in DNS abuse. At its meeting last weekend,... |
| DNS reddit | 841d | 118 | Which app should I use to handle sub domains in Linux? Hello
I have multiple VMs on my network and I would like to be able to access them externally.
However each VM has its own apps, docker, services etc. and I would like for example, to use 'cloud.vm1.pve.example.com'... |
| DNS reddit | 841d | 375 | Help with adding CNAME records via TXT Hello. I've been using no-ip.com as my DNS provider for years now.
A webhosting service, Carrd, just notified users that they are retiring their current DNS setup in March, and that they require users to update their... |
| DNS reddit | 842d | 117 | Question about multiple SPF records and adding an... My client's DNS appears to have two SPF records currently:
(anonymized) Type Name Data TTL TXT @ v=spf1 include:dc-abc123._spfm.domain.com ~all 1 hour TXT dc-abc123._spfm v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all 1 hour... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 842d | 83 | Has Epik gone “woke”? The epic saga of disgraced registrar Epik has taken a weird twist this week, with the company appearing to do a 180 on its longstanding devotion to free speech , going on a Twitter rampage, sarcastically embracing... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 842d | 98 | First bits of new gTLD Applicant Guidebook expected next... The internet community will officially get eyes on the draft Applicant Guidebook for ICANN s next new gTLD Applicant Guidebook as early as next week. The ICANN staff/community Implementation Review Team crafting the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 842d | 73 | ICANN bans closed generics for the foreseeable There will be no applications for closed generic gTLDs in the 2026 application round, ICANN has confirmed. While the Org has yet to publish the results of last weekend s board meeting, chair Tripti Sinha has written to... |
| DNS reddit | 842d | 99 | What's the reason MX records have priorities and multiple... Why not just 1 entry like most of the other records? submitted by /u/ada-boese
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| DNS reddit | 843d | 96 | **NOOB** I want to set up rules for IP addresses that can... I have never set up a dns server before, and I'm not sure I need to set one up to accomplish my goal. My goal is to actively deny/allow ip addresses access to my dns server, or to a dns server.
For example, Ip address... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 843d | 55 | You can’t use money to buy .box domains In what is probably the strangest domain launch to date, the crypto-focused new gTLD .box has gone on sale, but you can t use actual money to buy domains there. The unique selling point of .box domains is that they work... |
| DNS reddit | 843d | 115 | Bandwidth usage before DNS i was reading rfc1035 (the DNS rfc) and came across this:
Host name to address mappings were maintained by the Network information Center (NIC) in a single file (HOSTS.TXT) which was FTPed by all hosts. The total... |
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