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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2657d | 338 | CEO lost millions on Manhattan apartment deal just days... The CEO of AlpNames lost his $2.1 million deposit on a $10.6 million Manhattan apartment just days before his company went belly-up earlier this year, DI can reveal. A New York District Court judge in February found in... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2657d | 329 | Zimbabwe wants to rebuild its domain market from scratch Zimbabwe has put out a call for feedback on plans to modernize its almost non-existent domain name industry. The local ccTLD manager, Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ), has issued a... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2657d | 318 | Net 4 India gets brief reprieve from ICANN suspension India registrar Net 4 India has been given a bit of breathing space by ICANN, following its suspension last month. ICANN suspended the registrar s accreditation a month ago, effective June 21, after discovering the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2657d | 312 | Luxembourg tops 100,000 .lu domains Luxembourgish ccTLD .lu has grown to more than 100,000 domain names for the first time. ccTLD operator Restena said last week that the domain crossed the threshold June 21. At the end of the month, it had 100,056 domains... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2657d | 335 | China domain smaller than expected The Chinese national ccTLD registry has reported 2018 registration figures below what outsiders had estimated. CNNIC said last week (in Chinese) that it ended last year with 21.24 million .cn domain names under... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2657d | 324 | Charities “could move to .ngo” if .org prices rise File this one under wrong-headed argument of the day . The head of policy at the Charities Aid Foundation reportedly has said that the recent removal of price increase caps at .org could lead to charities moving to other... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2657d | 406 | Airline hit with $230 million GDPR fine British Airways is to be fined £183.39 million ($230 million) over a customer data breach last year, by far the biggest penalty to be handed out under the General Data Protection Regulation to date. This story is not... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2660d | 291 | After five-year wait, .madrid domains coming this month Madrid will become the newest city to get its own gTLD later this month. The Spanish capital will start accepting sunrise and landrush applications in concurrent priority periods that run from July 16 to October 3.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2662d | 302 | Foreigners mostly speak foreign, ccTLD study finds English may be the lingua franca of the internet, but most foreigners still stubbornly stick to their own tongues, a study has found. The research, carried out by Oxford Information Labs for CENTR, covered 10 ccTLDs and... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2662d | 467 | .icu joins the million-domains club in one year, but spam... Another new gTLD has joined the exclusive list of those to enter seven figures in terms of domains under management. .icu, managed by ShortDot, topped one million names this week, according to COO Kevin Kopas. It s taken... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2664d | 345 | Cloudflare “bug” reveals hundreds of secret domain prices The secret wholesale prices for hundreds of TLDs have been leaked, due to an alleged bug at a registrar. The registry fees for some 259 TLDs, including those managed by Donuts, Verisign and Afilias, are currently... |
| Miek Gieben | 2664d | 316 | Signing in CoreDNS I m pondering adding a new plugin to CoreDNS that automatically signs DNS zones. This new plugin will be called sign. I tried to prototype the README.md in that PR, as I like to start with the documentation when... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2664d | 405 | .org now has no price caps, but “no specific plans” to... ICANN has rubber-stamped Public Interest Registry s new .org contract, removing the price caps that have been in effect for the best part of two decades. That s despite a huge outcry against the changes, which saw the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2664d | 395 | CentralNic boosts reseller biz with $11.3 million Hexonet... CentralNic is to acquire rival reseller-based registrar Hexonet for up to €10 million ($11.3 million), its fourth acquisition in the last 12 months. Hexonet has over 3.8 million domains under management, according to... |
| Miek Gieben | 2666d | 52 | Tweets of June 30 2019 Bare bones repo to build .deb from CoreDNS git https://github.com/coredns/debian Sun Jun 30 09:17:12 +0000 2019 To be fair, it never said it was *good* privacy #PGP Sun Jun 30 09:34:44 +0000 2019 Can t build flamethrower... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2668d | 321 | What happens in Vegas… gets released in .vegas Dot Vegas is releasing 2,266 previously reserved .vegas domain names, most of which accord to a decidedly sleazy theme. Based on my eyeball scan of the list, I d say easily half of the names being released are related to... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2668d | 290 | ICANN gives .bj to Jeny The ccTLD for Benin has been redelegated to the country s government. ICANN s board of directors yesterday voted to hand over .bj to Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et de la Poste du Bénin, ARCEP,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2670d | 332 | 1.8 million UK grandfathers die after Nominet deadline... The deadline for registering grandfathered second-level domains in .uk passed this morning, leaving at many as 1.88 million names unclaimed. From June 2014 until 0500 UTC this morning, anyone who owned a third-level... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2670d | 295 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Release Candidate 2 We re proud to announce Release Candidate 2 for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 release train. There have been some minor changes since release candidate 1: #7955: Handle short reads from our random device #7953: Check if... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2670d | 307 | .amazon frozen AGAIN as endless government games continue Amazon s application for the .amazon gTLD has yet again been frozen, after a South American government invoked ICANN s appeals process. The bid, as well as applications for the Chinese and Japanese versions, were... |
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