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2565d268Version 12 d'Unicode
En mars dernier est sortie la version 12 d'Unicode (http://blog.unicode.org/2019/03/announcing-unicode-standard-version-120.html). Une description officielle des principaux changements est disponible...
2566d290Introducing… the DI Leaders Roundtable
Today, I m introducing what I hope to be the first of several regular features, the DI Leaders Roundtable. Every week or two, I ll be putting a single question to a collection of domain industry and ICANN community...
2566d495After killing the cows, what does the new Tucows logo...
Tucows has launched a refreshed corporate web site that features a new cow-free logo. Judging by a video posted on the Tucows.com home page over the weekend, the redesign is largely intended to make the company more...
2566d290Radix acquires another gTLD
Radix has added the 10th new gTLD to its portfolio with an acquisition last month, bringing its total TLD stable to 11. The company has acquired .uno from Missouri-based Dot Latin LLC for an undisclosed amount. .uno,...
2566d300Une histoire populaire de la France
Excellent (vraiment excellent) livre d'histoire de la France, vu sous un angle différent de l'habituel : moins de rois et de princes, et d'avantage de gens du peuple.
2566d9Secondary Name Services
ISC maintained SNS (secondary name service) for many organizations and individuals over the years.
2570d345.whoswho survives!
The registry running the failing new gTLD .whoswho has managed to avoid having its contract terminated by ICANN. According to an update on the ICANN web site, Who s Who Registry came back into compliance with its...
2572d268Correction: the 10 most-used dot-brands
Regular readers may recall that back in May DI published an article entitled These are the 10 most-used dot-brands . It turns out the article, which looked at how 10 dot-brand gTLDs were being used, was based on bad data...
2572d257Nominet raises .uk prices
Nominet is to raise the price of a .uk domain name in January, adding a couple million quid to its top line. The company s annual registry fee will increase by 4%, from £3.75 to £3.90 ($4.77), on January 13 next year....
2572d305Registrar suspended over dodgy transfers
ICANN has suspended a Los Angeles-based registrar after failing to get answers to its questions about a bunch of domain transfer. World Biz Domains won t be able to sell any gTLD domains, or accept transfers, from...
2572d297Mediocre .vote gTLD drops restrictions
The .vote and .voto gTLDs have had their registration restrictions removed in a bid to increase numbers. Both domains were previously technically restricted to those who could show they had a legitimate connection to...
2572d350ICANN’s babysitting fund goes live
ICANN has started accepting applications for its childcare grants program. As previously reported, ICANN plans to offer up to $750 per family to community members who have no choice but to show up to its meetings with...
2572d327Claims auDA boss quit after he was busted for “falsified”...
Former auDA CEO Cameron Boardman abruptly left the .au registry overseer after his chair claimed he had falsely claimed to have a law degree from a prestigious university, it has been reported. Citing a letter from...
2573d244Third release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0
We are very happy to announce the third, and hopefully last, release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This version adds the ability to accept DNS over HTTPS queries over HTTP, in order to be able to use dnsdist...
2573d524Documentation technique de mon résolveur DoH
Vous voulez connaitre tous les détails techniques du fonctionnement d'un résolveur public DoH (DNS sur HTTPS) ? Voici comment fonctionne le service "https://doh.bortzmeyer.fr/".
2573d77Tweets of September 30 2019
My work ideal would be: 6 months 200% and then 6 months off (somewhere in the woods; no phone; no internet, pure bliss) Mon Sep 30 20:40:44 +0000 2019
2574d309Permanent record
Tout le monde connait bien sûr Edward Snowden, le héros grâce à qui les citoyens ordinaires ont des informations précises et étayées sur la surveillance de masse qu'exercent les États sur les citoyens. S'il a fait...
2578d311Centralised DoH is bad for privacy, in 2019 and beyond
Recently, Mozilla announced it would be moving Firefox DNS lookups to Cloudflare by default, for its American audience. There will be a notification about this for existing users, at which point they could choose to go...
2579d312Assises régionales de la cyber-sécurité à Bordeaux
À Bordeaux, le 23 septembre 2019, se sont tenues les RSSIA, « Assises régionales de la cyber-sécurité », organisées par le CLUSIR Aquitaine (https://www.clusir-aquitaine.fr/). J'y ai parlé de choix politiques en matière...
2579d491Le protocole DoH et pourquoi il y a tant de discussions
Le 6 septembre dernier, Mozilla a annoncé (https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/09/06/whats-next-in-making-dns-over-https-the-default/) l'activation du protocole DoH par défaut dans leur navigateur Firefox. (Et,...
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