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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2634d | 309 | Radix releases huge amount of premium domain data Radix made $1,360,865 from premium domain names in its portfolio of new gTLDs in the first half of the year, according to the company s latest report. The company said that $522,365 of that came from new registrations... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2634d | 442 | ICANN dumps the “Whois” in new Whois tool Of all the jargon regularly deployed in the domain name industry and ICANN community, Whois is probably the one requiring the least explanation. It s self-explanatory, historically doing exactly what it says on the tin.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2634d | 312 | Now auDA loses its CEO too The CEO of Australian ccTLD registry auDA has quit, just weeks after the organization s chair resigned. Cameron Boardman submitted his resignation yesterday, according to a statement. Former chair Chris Leptos also quit... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2636d | 390 | Porn blocks could be worth millions to MMX Minds + Machines could find itself making millions of dollars a year out of non-resolving defensive registrations in its recently acquired portfolio of porn-themed gTLDs. The company recently announced the launch of... |
| Miek Gieben | 2637d | 59 | Tweets of July 29 2019 Replying to @njcw and @mholt6 Actually creating a deb package works much better for me, esp. for things like systemd startup files. But it depends on dpkg-buildpackage Mon Jul 29 07:20:52 +0000 2019 |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2640d | 315 | Cryptocurrency firms to be banned from .bank The registry for the already heavily restricted .bank and .insurance gTLDs wants to change its policies to make it clear that cryptocurrency firms are not welcome. fTLD Registry Services has opened up a public comment... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2640d | 298 | Cybersquatting cases down a bit in the UK The number of cybersquatting complaints filed with Nominet declined slightly in 2018, according to the registry. Nominet s Dispute Resolution Service, which is a bit like the UDRP, handled 671 cases last year, compared... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2640d | 350 | Looks like .fans has a new Chinese owner It appears that the struggling new gTLD .fans has changed ownership for the second time in a year. According to ICANN s web site, the .fans Registry Agreement was assigned to a company called ZDNS International on June... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2640d | 394 | Can NameCheap reverse .org price cap scrap? NameCheap has taken it upon itself to fight ICANN s decision to remove price increase caps on .org. But does it stand a snowball s chance in hell of winning? The registrar has filed a Request for Reconsideration with... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2643d | 303 | ILNP DNS processing at the IETF 105 hackathon The week-end of 20-21 july 2019, in Montréal, was the hackathon preceding the IETF 105 meeting (https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/105/). During this hackathon, I helped to improve the DNS support for the ILNP protocol,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2643d | 347 | Neustar to keep .us for another decade Neustar has secured a renewal of its contract to run the United States ccTLD until up to 2029. The company and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced the new contract last week. The... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2643d | 341 | MMX to pay $5.1 million to get out of terrible .london... Minds + Machines will pay its partner on .london roughly $5.1 million in order to put the catastrophic deal to bed for good. That s a reduction from the $7.9 million liability it had previously estimated. The company... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2643d | 342 | ZADNA boss canned for “misconduct” The CEO of South African ccTLD manager ZADNA has been fired after a misconduct investigation lasting over half a year. Vika Mpisane had been suspended from the role since early December, according to local reports, with... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2645d | 356 | RFC 8631: Link Relation Types for Web Services Le Web, ce sont les pages auxquelles on accède depuis son navigateur, avec les textes à lire et les images à regarder. Mais ce sont aussi de nombreuses applications, avec une API, prévues pour être utilisées depuis un... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2647d | 372 | La vente d'une partie du réseau 44 Hier, une partie du préfixe IPv4 "44.0.0.0/8" a été vendue à Amazon. Comment ? Pourquoi ? Et c'est quoi cette histoire de ventes d'adresses IP ? Nous allons plonger dans le monde de la gouvernance de l'Internet pour en... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2650d | 370 | RFC 8569: Content Centric Networking (CCNx) Semantics Certaines personnes trouvent une utilité au réseau centré sur le contenu, où adressage et nommage ne désignent que du contenu, des ressources numériques auxquelles on accède via le réseau. (Cette idée est souvent nommée... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2650d | 314 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Released We re proud to announce version 4.2.0 for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 release train. The 4.2.0 release of the PowerDNS Recursor brings a lot of small, incremental changes over the 4.1.x releases. We expect little... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2655d | 327 | ICANN’s new conferencing software has a webcam security... ICANN can t catch a break when it comes to remote participation security, it seems. Having just recently made the community-wide switch away from Adobe Connect to Zoom, partly for security reasons, now Zoom has been hit... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2655d | 412 | ICANN explains how .org pricing decision was made ICANN has responded to questions about how its decision to lift price caps on .org, along with .biz and .info, was made. The buck stops with CEO Göran Marby, it seems, according to an ICANN statement, sent to DI last... |
| ISC.org | 2656d | 13 | F-Root ISC operates the F-Root domain server, one of the 13 Internet root name servers known as A-Root through M-Root. |
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