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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
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| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2670d | 344 | Afilias buys the other half of .global Afilias has acquired one of its new gTLD back-end customers, Dot Global Domain Registry Limited, the registry for .global. It immediately makes .global Afilias best-performing 2012-round new gTLD. The price of the deal,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2674d | 462 | What time is it? For ICANN, even that can be a... ICANN has found itself involved in a debate about whether Russia s 2014 annexation of Crimea should be recognized. It s not unusual for ICANN to find itself in geopolitical controversies see .amazon for the most recent... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2674d | 327 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.8 and 4.1.10 Released These are security releases. The 4.0.8 and 4.1.10 (together with 4.1.9) releases fix the following security advisories: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2019-04 (CVE-2019-10162) PowerDNS Security Advisory 2019-05... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2674d | 356 | auDA reveals cut-off date for 2LD priority Australian ccTLD manager auDA has revealed how old your .com.au domain has to be to qualify for priority registration of the matching second-level .au domain. If you registered your current domain before February 4,... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2675d | 367 | I care about Ansible I tell people that my first contribution to the Ansible project was killing off the cows , but while researching for this post, I see memory fails me: the first written record of me contributing to Ansible is dated a bit... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2675d | 389 | Nic.br wins dot-brand from Afilias Brazilian registry Nic.br has won its sixth gTLD client. It s taking on the dot-brand back-end business of Natura, a cosmetics company based in its home town of Sao Paulo. The .natura gTLD was previously managed by... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2675d | 356 | Uniregistry offers dating-inspired buy-now domains Uniregistry has come up with a novel way to flog its clients domains, inspired by a dating web site. It has published a list of 60 domains where a final price had already been negotiated by its brokers and agreed by both... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2675d | 323 | .CLUB lowers premium prices to sell through registrars .CLUB Domains has lowered the price of many of its reserved premium domain names in order to make them more easily available via the registrar channel, the company announced today. Dozens of names previously priced above... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2676d | 331 | auDA chair racks off after just 18 months Australian ccTLD manager auDA has lost its chair, again. Chris Leptos quit abruptly, for undisclosed reasons, earlier this week. He d been in the job since November 2017, when he replaced Stuart Benjamin, who had... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2676d | 335 | ICANN launches cash-for-kids scheme ICANN will hand over cash to help community members cover their childcare commitments, the organization announced yesterday. If you show up to an ICANN public meeting with an ankle-biter under 12 years of age, ICANN will... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2676d | 436 | After $30 million deal, is a .voice gTLD now inevitable? Do big second-level domain sales translate into new gTLD success, and does the record-breaking $30 million sale of voice.com this week make a .voice gTLD inevitable? The answers, I believe, are no and maybe. Before the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2676d | 461 | Watch John Oliver take down voice.com’s buyer The blockchain developer that just spaffed $30 million on the domain name voice.com was the subject of a takedown on Last Week Tonight With John Oliver a year ago. Oliver spent four minutes of a 25-minute rant about... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2676d | 389 | Record-breaking $30 million domain sale was financed by... Records were broken yesterday when voice.com became the most-expensive domain name ever sold. Handed over for a cool $30 million cash, it more than doubled the previous record for a domain-only transaction, 2010 s $13... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2677d | 313 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.9 Released This maintenance release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server has the following changes: by popular demand, the option to disable superslave support has been backported from 4.2.0 to 4.1.9 (#7922) pdnsutil b2b-migrate... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2677d | 345 | .gay not coming out this year after all We won t be seeing .gay on the internet this year. Top Level Design has postponed the release of its hard-won gTLD until the second quarter of 2020, having recently said it was planning an October 2019 launch. The... |
| Ask Mr. DNS | 2680d | 359 | Episode 58 Another year brings another Inside Baseball event, where an ad hoc group of DNS industry insiders get together for a day to talk about current issues and then go to a baseball game (really). So many DNS-knowledgeable... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2681d | 278 | A word or two about a $EDITOR Wherever possible I use vi or a newer incantation of it called vim , but I try to stick to low common denominators so that my editing is “portable” across platforms.
I learned vi the hard way, on a terminal for which... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2681d | 315 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 2 We are pleased to announce the second Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.2.0. Many of our users have given RC1 a spin, and we very much appreciate their feedback. RC2 contains a host of minor robustness... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2682d | 308 | New gTLD registry is latest billion-dollar unicorn A new gTLD registry that used a different new gTLD for its original web site has merged to form a new company valued at a billion dollars using a new brand in a third new gTLD. Combell Group announced this week that it... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2682d | 318 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.14 Released This is a maintenance release that adds two counters for the number of queries received with the AD and CD bit set. The counters are named dnssec-authentic-data-queries and dnssec-check-disabled-queries, respectively.... |
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