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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISC.org | 2548d | 10 | Meet an ISC Engineer - Michał Kępień! We thought our community might enjoy getting to know a little bit about some of the people behind the software you use every day, so we will be presenting short profiles of some of our engineers and other staff members. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2550d | 308 | ICANN enters talks to kill off Whois for good Whois days are numbered. ICANN is to soon enter talks with accredited registrars and contracted gTLD registries with the aim of naming a date to finally sunset the aging protocol. It wants to negotiate amendments to the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2550d | 363 | Form an orderly queue: New Zealand wants a new back-end New Zealand is looking to outsource its .nz ccTLD registry back-end for the first time, and has invited interested parties to get in touch. Registry manager InternetNZ today published a request for expressions of... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2550d | 346 | Brexit hell: .eu suspension plan put on hold EURid s policy to boot out Brits next week has been put on hold due to the current impasse in Brexit talks. UK citizens had been told they would lose their .eu domains November 1, the first day the country was scheduled... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2551d | 302 | Journée de l'APDEN (professeur·e·s documentalistes) sur... Le 16 octobre 2019, les APDEN (http://apden.org/) (association de professeur·e·s documentalistes de l'éducation nationale) franciliennes tenaient une journée d'études au lycée Janson-de-Sailly. Le thème était... |
| ISC.org | 2551d | 9 | ISC receives Mozilla Award for Development of Foundational.. The Mozilla Open Source Software award will underwrite the cost of adding DNS over HTTPS to BIND 9 to make this new technology more widely available. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2551d | 336 | DI Leaders Roundtable #1 — How many new gTLDs will be... How many new gTLDs will be applied for in the next application round? This is the first question I put to the DI Leaders Roundtable, which you may recall I announced a couple weeks back. As a reminder, the panel is... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2552d | 369 | Now you don’t have to live in the EU to register a .eu... Residents of countries outside the European Union are now able to register .eu domain names. A new rule that kicked in at the weekend broadened eligibility from only residents of the EU and European Economic Area. Now,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2552d | 322 | Spam is not our problem, major domain firms say ahead of... Eleven of the largest domain name registries and registrars have denied that spam is something they should have to deal with, unless it s used to proliferate other types of abuse such as phishing or malware. In a newly... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2553d | 327 | Unicode à ses débuts Sur le site Web du consortium Unicode, consortium qui pilote l'évolution de cette norme, on trouve une très intéressante page d'histoire (http://unicode.org/history/), rassemblant un certain nombre de documents sur le... |
| ISC.org | 2555d | 11 | BIND Logging Webinar - October 30, 2019 For the third in our series of monthly webinars (see our Presentations page for recordings and slides from the previous two), Alan Clegg of ISC will speak about BIND logging on Wednesday, October 30, 2019, at 1 PM ET. |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2556d | 394 | Backend removals in the upcoming Authoritative Server... PowerDNS Authoritative server 4.2 supports over 15 different backends. While reviewing the existing backends we came to the conclusion that the sheer amount of them holds us back from developing the core of the... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2558d | 299 | FOSDEM 2020 DNS Developer Room Call for Participation Hello DNS enthusiasts and other developers, After a successful and packed DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2018 and 2019, we are happy to announce a half-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2020. As with the last years, we hope to host talks... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2559d | 328 | Crunch time, again, for Whois access policy Talks seeking to craft a new policy for allowing access to private Whois data have hit another nodal point, with the community now pressuring the ICANN board of directors for action. The Whois working group has more or... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2559d | 300 | Google quietly launches .new domains sunrise Google Registry will allow trademark owners to register domains matching their marks in the .new gTLD from tomorrow. While the company hasn t made a big public announcement about the launch, the startup dates it has... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2562d | 290 | After .org price outrage, ICANN says it has NOT scrapped... ICANN this evening said that it will continue to open up gTLD registry contract amendments for public comment periods, despite posting information yesterday suggesting that it would stop doing so. The organization... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2562d | 310 | Hindu god smites Chrysler gTLD Car-maker Chrysler has withdrawn its application for the .ram dot-brand gTLD more than six years after receiving a government objection on religious grounds. Ram is a brand of pickup trucks manufactured by Chrysler, but... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2562d | 320 | Top ICANN advisor Tarek Kamel dies at 57 Tarek Kamel, a senior advisor to the ICANN CEO and one-time shortlisted candidate for the top job, died yesterday, according to ICANN. He was 57. His cause of death was not released, but he apparently had been suffering... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2563d | 289 | Twitter & les gaz lacrymogènes Beaucoup de textes ont été écrits sur le rôle de l'Internet, et des réseaux sociaux centralisés, comme Facebook ou Twitter, dans des évènements politiques. Ce fut le cas, par exemple, du printemps arabe. L'auteur... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2564d | 308 | Three big changes could be coming to .uk Nominet wants to know what you thinking about three significant policy changes that could be implemented in the next year or so. The .uk registry today published a consultation document covering two security-related... |
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