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2606d335CIRA replaces CORE as emergency backup registry
ICANN has switched around its line up of emergency registry providers, swapping out CORE Association for CIRA. The organization last night announced that its three newly contracted Emergency Back-End Registry Operators...
2607d7Internet Domain Survey
The Domain Survey has been discontinued. The survey collected information about IPv4 only, and we felt it was increasingly misleading for that reason.
2607d5ISC Security Vulnerability Policy Updated
At ISC we are updating our security vulnerability disclosure policy.
2607d6Kea 1.6 Adds Configuration Database
We are pleased to introduce the latest version of the Kea DHCP server.
2608d354The Amazon is burning. Is this good news for .amazon?
With the tide of international opinion turning against Brazil due to the ongoing forest fires in the Amazon, could we see governments change their tune when it comes to Amazon s application for .amazon? A much higher...
2608d8ISC terminates long-running IPv4 Domain Survey, looks...
Internet Domain Survey - Since 1981 Since 1981, the Internet Domain Survey has been made and the results published quarterly.
2609d365Testing an OnlyKey hardware password manager
I discovered the OnlyKey via this post on Mastodon , and the description of the device tickled a fancy, so I ordered one. While the ordering process went as smoothly as ordering processes sometimes go, I was a bit...
2611d343China’s MySpace trainwreck sells its gTLD
A once-hot Chinese social networking company that now sells used cars instead has offloaded its gTLD. The registry contract for .ren, the Pinyin for the Chinese 人 , meaning people , has been transferred from Beijing...
2612d296RFC 8612: DDoS Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Requirements
Les attaques par déni de service, et notamment les dDoS (distributed Denial of Service), sont une des principales plaies de l'Internet. Le projet DOTS (DDoS Open Threat Signaling) à l'IETF vise à développer un mécanisme...
2613d351Second-level .au names delayed
If you re champing at the bit to grab yourself some second-level .au domain names, you re going to have to wait a little longer. Australian ccTLD manager auDA said today that it is delaying the controversial release by...
2614d342ICANN names new directors, replaces Facebook exec
ICANN s Nominating Committee has picked two new directors to join the board of directors this November. They are: Mandla Msimang, a South African technology policy consultant, and Ihab Osman, a serial director who ran...
2614d388After getting acquired, bank scraps its dot-brand
Another dot-brand gTLD has bitten the dust, but this time it does not appear to be due to lack of interest. TIAA Bank has told ICANN that it wants to terminate its contract to run .everbank, the dot-brand of a bank it...
2614d522Porn-block retail prices revealed. Wow.
The first retail prices for MMX s porn-blocking AdultBlock services have been revealed, and they ain t cheap. The registrar 101domain yesterday announced that it has started offering AdultBlock and sister service...
2614d371Registrars could be held liable for US gun violence
A US presidential candidate has come out in support of amending the law to make domain name companies liable when customers use their services to incite violence. Beto O Rourke, a former member of Congress, stated last...
2614d341Three-letter .com owned by hospital “hijacked”
A California hospital has seen its three-letter .com domain reportedly hijacked and transferred to a registrar in China. Sonoma Valley Hospital, a 75-bed facility north of San Francisco, was using svh.com as its primary...
2618d334RFC 8576: Internet of Things (IoT) Security: State of the...
Une blague très courante dit que, dans IoT (Internet of Things, l'Internet des Objets), le S veut dire sécurité… C'est peu dire que la sécurité de l'Iot est mauvaise. Elle est en fait catastrophique, comme l'analyse bien...
2620d330“We’re Irish!” claim Brits as .eu shrinks yet again
British companies are moving their .eu domain names to their Irish branches in an effort to keep them after Brexit, according to the speculations of EURid. .eu regs in Ireland grew 18% to 47,781 in the second quarter,...
2620d410RFC 8621: The JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP) for...
Ce nouveau RFC décrit un remplaçant pour le traditionnel protocole IMAP, remplaçant fondé sur le cadre JMAP (JSON Meta Application Protocol, RFC 8620).
2620d11A NodeJS Framework for the RADIUS protocol
ISC RADIUS The recently released isc-radius package is a framework for NodeJS for implementing RADIUS servers and for adding RADIUS client support to NodeJS applications.
2621d377Mystery .vu registry revealed
Neustar has been selected as the back-end domain registry operator for the nation of Vanuatu. The company, and the Telecommunications Radiocommunications and Broadcasting Regulator, announced the appointment, which came...
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