Latest posts
| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miek Gieben | 2621d | 368 | Learning Go Learning Go is a book that teaches you Go. It includes exercises (and solutions) to help put your new knowledge to the test. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2622d | 345 | Berkens says new gTLDs mostly suck but geos suck hardest Ever since he cashed out his massive portfolio of domain names in a bulk sale to GoDaddy three and a half years ago, domain investor Mike Berkens has been dabbling in new gTLDs, and so far he s not impressed. In a recent... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2622d | 304 | .gay gets rooted The new gTLD .gay, which was often used as an example of a controversial TLD that could be blocked from the DNS, has finally made it to the DNS. While no .gay domains are currently resolving, the TLD itself was added to... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2622d | 342 | First release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0 We are proud to announce the first release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. 1.4.0 brings a much more scalable way of handling DNS over TCP and DNS over TLS connections since the first alpha release. A major new... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2622d | 385 | Neustar takes control of two new gTLDs Neustar has started taking over former dot-brand new gTLDs belonging to its former clients. It recently took control of .compare and .select, which previously belonged to Australian insurance company iSelect. Neustar had... |
| Miek Gieben | 2622d | 374 | My Terminal Setup Every so often I tweak my setup which includes the shell, terminal, mutt, Vim and their color configuration. Currently I m using a setup that I ve tweaked a couple of years back - it seems I like this one. The color... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2625d | 299 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 3 Thanks to an overwhelming amount of testing by our fabulous user community, this release candidate contains a ton of bug fixes (and a few improvements) compared to the previous one. We hope this has shaken out all of the... |
| ISC.org | 2625d | 10 | DNS Flag Day 2020 The DNS Flag Day is an initiative of DNS vendors (both open-source and proprietary) and DNS operators. |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2626d | 302 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.13 Released The 4.1.12 release was skipped due to a packaging issue. This is a bugfix release for high traffic setups using the pipebackend or remotebackend. It contains the following changes: gpgsqlbackend: add missing schema file... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2626d | 320 | Cyberattaque Des livres parlant de « cyberattaques » ou de « cybersécurité », il y en a plein. C'est un thème à la mode et les historiens du futur, lorsqu'ils étudieront la littérature du passé, noteront sans doute que les années... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2627d | 365 | Epik will sponsor 8chan’s domain, but will not host its... Controversial free-speech registrar Epik has said it will take 8chan s domain name business, but will not provide content delivery services for the site. In a post entitled Epik draws line on Acceptable Use , CEO Rob... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2627d | 342 | EFF becomes second to appeal new .org contract The Electronic Frontier Foundation has appealed ICANN s decision to add stronger trademark protection rules to .org. The civil liberties organization has filed a Request for Reconsideration with ICANN, saying that the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2627d | 329 | CentralNic to pay $3.4 million for iwantmyname CentralNic has made yet another registrar acquisition, picking up New Zealand-based Ideegeo Group for the equivalent of $3.4 million. The company said it will pay NZD 5.2 million, of which 10% is being deferred until May... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2628d | 446 | Programming Elixir Ce livre présente le langage de programmation Elixir, un langage, pour citer la couverture, « fonctionnel, parallèle, pragmatique et amusant ». |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2629d | 383 | Google has big, innovative plans for .new Google is set to launch .new next year with a innovative value proposition that changes how domain names are used. The company plans to slowly release .new domains to a carefully controlled customer base, starting in the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2629d | 342 | Amazon and Google have been BEATEN by a non-profit in the... One of the longest-fought new gTLD contests has finally been resolved, with a not-for-profit bid beating out Google and Amazon. Amazon last week withdrew its application for .kids, leaving Hong Kong-based DotKids... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2629d | 384 | After more racist shootings, take one guess which... Controversial web forum 8chan has moved its domain name to a new registrar after it was linked to at least one of the two mass shootings that occurred in the US over the weekend. According to Whois records, it s just... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2631d | 328 | Presentation pointer I frequently present during conferences or when giving trainings, and during the course of several years I’ve been very satisfied with a laser pointer which fits in my hand comfortably and can page-forward and... |
| Miek Gieben | 2631d | 296 | A Working Sign Plugin in CoreDNS This sign plugin is working! I m running it live for miek.nl on my servers to test it out. (See this branch or this one after it is merged into master.) To use the sign plugin, I only need a few extra lines in my... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2633d | 328 | Security Notice for PowerDNS+Postgres Users Hello, Last Tuesday we published PowerDNS Security Advisory 2019-06, which called for a schema update if you are using PostgreSQL with the Authoritative Server. We have now released updated packages for the 4.0.x and... |
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