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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2517d | 297 | DI Leaders Roundtable #3 — What did you think of ICANN 66? It s time for the third in the series of DI Leaders Roundtables, in which I pose a single question to a selection of the industry s thought leaders. With ICANN 66 taking place a couple of weeks ago in Montreal, Canada, a... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2520d | 311 | RFC 8659: DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA)... Ce RFC décrit un mécanisme pour renforcer un peu la sécurité des certificats. Il normalise les enregistrements CAA (Certification Authority Authorization), qui sont publiés dans le DNS, et indiquent quelles AC sont... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2520d | 400 | Pourquoi ne pas mélanger résolveur DNS et serveur DNS... Je donne souvent le conseil de ne pas configurer un serveur DNS à la fois en résolveur et en serveur faisant autorité. Mais pourquoi, au juste ? |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2521d | 336 | Petition launched to fight .org deal A petition has been opened on Change.org calling for the acquisition of Public Interest Registry by Ethos Capital. The petition calls on ICANN, the Internet Society and PIR to suspend the sale pending an open,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2521d | 316 | ICANN board meets to consider PIR acquisition TODAY ICANN s board of directors will gather today to consider whether the acquisition of Public Interest Registry by a private equity company means that it should reverse its own decision to allow PIR to raise .org price... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2522d | 325 | dnsdist 1.4.0 After five release candidates, we are thrilled to finally announce the release of dnsdist 1.4.0 ! This new major version has been used in production by several large operators since the first release candidate, including... |
| ISC.org | 2522d | 10 | Encrypted DNS: DoH vs. DoT Webinar - December 11, 2019 DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (DoT) are hot topics in the DNS world today, as developers and end-users become more and more focused on data privacy. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2523d | 345 | XYZ buys dormant gTLD from “pyramid scheme” operator XYZ.com has bought another unused dot-brand to add to its portfolio. It s taken over the contract for .quest from original registry Quest ION Ltd, a subsidiary of a Hong Kong-based multi-level marketing company called... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2523d | 368 | I attempt to answer ICA’s questions about the “terrible... The Internet Commerce Association launched a withering attack on ICANN late last week, accusing the organization of a terrible blunder by lifting pricing restrictions on .org domain names. As by now you re no doubt... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2524d | 331 | Capitole du Libre 2019 Le 16 et le 17 novembre 2019, c'était Capitole du Libre (https://capitoledulibre.org/) à Toulouse, un rassemblement libriste à ne pas manquer. Plein de rencontres, d'ateliers et de conférences intéressantes. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2528d | 294 | Selling off PIR, did ISOC just throw .org registrants... Public Interest Registry is to lose its not-for-profit status, dramatically increasing the chances of .org price increases, under an acquisition deal announced this evening. The Internet Society is selling PIR to a... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2529d | 333 | Rival dot-brand bidders in settlement talks, seek auction... Two companies called Merck have managed to delay an ICANN auction for the .merck dot-brand top-level domain. The two companies applied for .merck in 2012 and have spent the last almost eight years conducting a battle for... |
| Miek Gieben | 2529d | 299 | How to install xml2rfc on Debian Xml2rfc is the tool the IETF uses to convert the canonical XML for an Internet-Draft into text, HTML or a PDF. This utility has seen many releases while the XML schema was being finalized. It s important (if you write... |
| Miek Gieben | 2529d | 80 | Linuxes |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2529d | 292 | An authoritative Knot Knot has become much more mature and solid since I last looked at it almost five years ago – time flies!
It sports a new configuration file format (YAML) which is optionally backed by an LMDB database, a key manager... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2531d | 288 | ICANN going back to Puerto Rico for a third time ICANN has selected Puerto Rico for its ICANN 73 public meeting. The meeting is slated to be held at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan from March 5 to March 10, 2022. That s the same venue ICANN visited in... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2531d | 325 | Montreal airport thinks DI is porn The web site you re reading right now is classified as pornography/sex by Montreal airport, according to DI readers. Some readers en route home from ICANN 66 last week noticed that they couldn t access the site over the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2531d | 273 | DI Leaders Roundtable #2 — Should we kill off “Whois”? Should we stop using the word Whois to describe registration data lookup services? That s the question I posed for the second DI Leaders Roundtable. I m sure you re all very well aware that the Registration Data Access... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2535d | 355 | Former NTIA chief Redl now working for Amazon David Redl, the former head of the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration has joined Amazon as an internet governance advisor, I ve learned. I don t know whether he s taken a full-time job or is a... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2536d | 428 | Neustar’s .co contract up for grabs Colombia is looking for a registry operator for its .co ccTLD. If you re interested, and you re reading this before noon on Wednesday November 6 and you re at ICANN 66 in Montreal, hightail it to room 514A for a... |
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