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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2719d | 346 | These five TLDs contain 80% of all child abuse images Online child abuse watchdog the Internet Watch Foundation has released its 2018 annual report, and it fingers the five TLDs that host four in five cases of child sexual abuse images and videos. The TLDs in question are... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2719d | 341 | PIR says it has no plans to raise .org prices Public Interest Registry claims it has no plans to raise its wholesale fee for .org domains, in the face of outrage from domainers and non-profits. Under a proposed renegotiated contract with ICANN, price caps that have... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2719d | 353 | .CLUB to let brands block “trillions” of domains for... .CLUB Domains has launched a service for trademark owners that will enable them to block an essentially infinite number of potential cybersquats for a $2,000 payment every three years. But the restrictions in place to... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2719d | 312 | How PowerDNS is Open Source & a successful business, or,... What does PowerDNS actually do? This is a good question, one we can ask about any company. How do they stay alive, what services do they deliver, who do they sell them to? For Open Source companies, the question is... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2719d | 288 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released The Beta 1 release comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and also some new features: Add a new max-cache-bogus-ttl option to cap the TTL of a record that has been validated as Bogus in the query cache, so it is not... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2722d | 331 | LOADays 2019 My LOADays experience started with a discussion-filled evening during and after the speakers’ dinner on Friday, with the “after” portion taking place in the hotel bar. I think I stumbled into bed after midnight.
Up... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2724d | 408 | RFC 8415: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6... IPv6 dispose de trois mécanismes principaux pour l'allocation d'une adresse IP à une machine. L'allocation statique, « à la main », le système d'« autoconfiguration » SLAAC du RFC 4862 et DHCP. DHCP pour IPv6 avait été... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2725d | 318 | Another five Amazon TLDs move to Nominet Another five gTLDs owned by Amazon have made the back-end switch from Neustar to Nominet. According to changes to IANA records this week, Nominet is now the registry services provider for .bot, .zappos, .imdb, .prime,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2726d | 341 | Non-coms say .org price cap should be RAISED With the entire domain name community apparently split along binary lines on the issue of price caps in .org, a third option has emerged from a surprising source. ICANN s Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group has suggested... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2726d | 359 | Dot-brand early adopter becomes 48th to disappear A Singaporean telecommunications company has become the latest gTLD registry to voluntarily drop its dot-brand. StarHub, which had 2018 revenue equivalent to $1.73 billion, told ICANN it no longer wished to operate... |
| Miek Gieben | 2727d | 64 | Tweets of April 30 2019 Replying to @lolamby you eat one and PUT THE REST IN THE FRIDGE - there, I solved it for you Tue Apr 30 17:38:09 +0000 2019 Perl with whitespace https://twitter.com/ManishEarth/status/1044398845948383232 Tue Apr 30... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2727d | 375 | Donuts acquires its 242nd gTLD Donuts, the registry with the largest stable of new gTLDs, has added its 242nd string to its bow. The company seems to have acquired .contact from, nominally at least, smaller portfolio rival Top Level Spectrum. The... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2727d | 345 | Non-profits worth $2.6 billion a year say .org price caps... Eight large US-based non-profits, several of them household names, have put their names to a letter demanding that Public Interest Registry should not be allowed to increase its .org registry fees beyond 10% a year.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2727d | 398 | Governments demand Whois reopened within a year ICANN s government advisers wants cops, trademark owners and others to get access to private Whois data in under a year from now. The Governmental Advisory Committee wants to see considerable and demonstrable progress,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2727d | 381 | These people support scrapping .org price caps The first examples of people supporting the scrapping of price caps in .org have emerged. ICANN s Business Constituency and Intellectually Property Constituency have both in the last few hours filed comments on the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2727d | 389 | .org price anger comments top 3,000 as non-profits weigh... The proposal to remove price caps from .org domains has now attracted more than 3,000 angry comments, an it s not just domainers who are feeling the outrage. Non-profit groups have now also submitted objections to the... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2728d | 327 | RFC 8546: The Wire Image of a Network Protocol Ce nouveau RFC de l'IAB décrit le très important concept de vue depuis le réseau (wire image), une abstraction servant à modéliser ce que voit, sur le réseau, une entité qui ne participe pas à un protocole, mais peut en... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2729d | 329 | Automatically start or attach tmux in SSH session I like having tmux or screen start automatically when I connect to a machine, and if possible I like having the previous detached session restored. I think it was this post which inspired me at the time, at least it... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2730d | 374 | dnsdist 1.4.0-alpha2 with DNS over HTTPS support We are very happy to announce the second alpha release of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This version keeps up the DNS privacy improvements with the addition of a new major feature, DNS over HTTPS (DoH), and contains very... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2731d | 379 | ICA rallies the troops to defeat .org price hikes. It... Over 100 letters have been sent to ICANN opposing the proposed lifting of price caps in .org, after the Internet Commerce Association reached out to rally its supporters. This is an atypically large response to an ICANN... |
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