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2537d389US official Heineman joins GoDaddy
Former US government official Ashley Heineman has joined the staff of GoDaddy. Heineman was until quite recently a policy specialist at the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the US...
2537d303Grandir connectés
Les discours sur les pratiques numériques des « jeunes » ne manquent pas, allant de « ielles sont digital natives, ielles sont complètement à l'aise dans l'environnement numérique, les adultes n'ont rien à leur...
2537d311Web.com got pwned
Web.com, which owns top 20 registrars Network Solutions and Register.com, got itself and millions of its customers hacked a few months ago. The company disclosed last week that malicious hackers broke into its network in...
2537d364Surprise! ICANN throws out complaints about .org price...
ICANN has rejected two appeals against its decision to lift price caps and introduce new anti-cybersquatting measures in the .org space. In other news, gambling is going on in Rick s Cafe. NameCheap and the Electronic...
2538d344Somber mood as ICANN 66 opens in Montreal
The opening ceremony of ICANN s 66th public meeting set a somber tone, as leaders bade farewell to recently departed and departing colleagues. Outgoing chair Cherine Chalaby and CEO Göran Marby delivered eulogies...
2538d335America has Amazon’s back in gTLD fight at ICANN 66
The United States looks set to stand in the way of government attempts to further delay Amazon s application for .amazon. US Governmental Advisory Committee representative Ashley Heineman said today that the US does not...
2539d372RFC 8642: Policy Behavior for Well-Known BGP Communities
Le protocole d'annonces de routes BGP permet d'attacher aux annonces des étiquettes, les communautés, qui sont des métadonnées pour les routes. Certaines valeurs sont réservées pour des communautés « bien connues » qui...
2540d365New (kinda) geo-TLD rules laid out at ICANN 66
The proposed rules for companies thinking about applying for a geographic gTLD in the next application round have been sketched out. They re the same as the old rules. At ICANN 66 in Montreal today, a GNSO Policy...
2540d271A Fediverse/Mastodon bot for BGP queries
I created a bot to answer BGP queries over the fediverse (decentralized social network, best known implementation being Mastodon). What for? Well, mostly for the fun, but also because I need from time to time to find out...
2542d52Tweets of October 31 2019
Replying to @andrewtj yep :) That page 404s for me though Thu Oct 31 06:50:22 +0000 2019 Replying to @andrewtj Oh wait firefox hiding the download for me Thu Oct 31 08:06:06 +0000 2019 RT @Truthma81128749: Massive crowds...
2543d278dnsdist 1.4.0-rc5 released
We are happy to announce the fifth release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This release fixes a regression introduced in DNS over HTTPS handling in 1.4.0-rc4 that could lead to a crash under heavy load,...
2544d318Third alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0
We re proud to announce the third alpha release for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 release train. Note that a second alpha was tagged, but never released due to an issue found. A few major features are introduced: The...
2545d332Emoji domains get a ???? after broad study
Domain names containing emojis are a security risk and not recommended, according to a pretty comprehensive review by an ICANN study group. The Country-Code Names Supporting Organization has delivered the results of its...
2545d389Industry veteran Jay Daley tapped to lead IETF
The Internet Engineering Task Force has named domain industry veteran Jay Daley as its new executive director. In a blog post last week, the IETF said that Daley beat 133 other highly qualified applicants for the job. He...
2545d348Verisign likely to get its billion-dollar .com pricing...
Verisign and ICANN appear to be on the verge of signing a new .com registry contract that could prove extremely lucrative for the legacy gTLD company. Speaking to analysts following the announcement of Verisign s...
2546d398RFC 8633: Network Time Protocol Best Current Practices
Le protocole NTP, qui sert à synchroniser les horloges sur l'Internet, est probablement un des plus vieux protocoles encore en service. Il est normalisé dans le RFC 5905. Ce nouveau RFC ne change pas la norme, il...
2546d327(Cyber) harcèlement
Le sujet du harcèlement dans l'enseignement est douloureux mais il est quand même nécessaire de l'étudier. Il ne se réduit pas au cyberharcèlement, et il n'est même pas sûr que le cyberharcèlement soit si différent que...
2546d48Blackpool
Waar moet je nooit naar toe gaan: Blackpool
2548d349Fourth release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0
We are very happy to announce the fourth release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. Unless a serious issue is discovered, we plan on releasing the final 1.4.0 release in a couple of weeks with no or very few...
2548d310Il n'existe pas de TLD interne standard
Dans beaucoup d'organisations, les noms de domaine locaux sont attribués dans un TLD, un domaine de tête, non normalisé, comme ".loc" ou ".lan". Pourquoi n'y a t-il pas de domaine de premier niveau normalisé pour ces...
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