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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2754d | 473 | Donuts raises prices on most TLDs by up to 9% Portfolio registry Donuts is to jack up prices on most of its 241 gTLDs by up to 9% later this year. Base-rate price increases of between 6% and 9% will his 220 TLDs, while 16 will remain at their current pricing. The... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2754d | 313 | .com outsells new gTLDs by 2:1 in 2018 The number of registered .com domains increased by more than double the growth of all new gTLDs last year, according to figures from Verisign. The latest Domain Name Industry Brief reports that .com grew by 7.1 million... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2754d | 426 | CentralNic gets 680,000 AlpNames domains for free, kinda CentralNic has emerged as the gaining registrar for AlpNames entire portfolio of gTLD domains. The company announced late last week that three registrars in its stable Moniker, Key-Systems LLC and Key-Systems GmbH will... |
| Miek Gieben | 2757d | 61 | Tweets of March 31 2019 semver and the dumb expectations it creates. Rather go back to git hashes which at least tell you the version is meaningless Sun Mar 31 08:34:30 +0000 2019 Replying to @SusanPotter and @lucasdicioccio Like a git hash?... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2759d | 478 | NameSilo nets $1.5 million profit Fast-growing registrar NameSilo yesterday reported its financial results for 2018. The Canadian company reported revenue of CDN 17.2 million ($13.3 million) for the year, up from CDN 10.4 million ($8.1 million) in 2017.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2760d | 353 | Registry offers “$2,500” in sweeteners for .inc... The newly launching .inc gTLD may be eye-wateringly expensive, but the registry is offering a package of incentives it reckons adds up to a $2,500 value to new registrants. Intercap Registry s .inc went into sunrise... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2760d | 324 | Most .uk registrants not interested in .uk The majority of people eligible to register .uk domains at the second level have not yet chosen to do so, according to local registry Nominet. Numbers the company released this week show that only two million 2LD .uk... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2760d | 393 | Australia likely to BAN domaining Domain investors will soon be no longer welcome in Australia s .au, if proposed policy changes are approved. Registrants who own more than 100 names and cannot prove they re not a domainer will have their names deleted,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2760d | 285 | Root servers whacked after crypto change The DNS root servers came under accidental attack from name servers across the internet following ICANN s recent changes to their cryptographic master keys, according to Verisign. The company, which runs the A and J root... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2763d | 353 | DNS Extended Error reporting at the IETF hackathon On 23 and 24 march 2019 took place the now traditional hackathon of the IETF. I worked on a mechanism to report more detailed errors for DNS requests. |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2765d | 340 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.8 Released This release contains a bunch of backports, improvements and bug fixes that we wanted in the 4.1.x release channel after the 4.1.7 security release was out of the door. Please see the changelog for full details: #7604:... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2766d | 294 | « Keynote » sur Internet et les droits humains à... Le 21 mars 2019, j'ai eu le plaisir et l'honneur et tout ça de faire la keynote d'ouverture à la conférence de développeurs BreizhCamp (https://www.breizhcamp.org) à Rennes. Le thème était « Internet et droits humains,... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2766d | 351 | Shiori for bookmarking I stumbed across a program called Shiori . It’s a single-binary Go program which you can use as a self-hosted “Ersatz” for Pocket.
I can add articles via the Web interface, but I can also use the CLI for that.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2766d | 301 | XYZ weighs into Epik controversy with .monster fundraising.. New gTLD registry XYZ.com has set up a domain to help raise money for victims of the terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand last week. The domain is give.monster. It redirects to a page on Givealittle.co.nz, a... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2766d | 349 | After NZ shooting, Epik has a Monster PR problem Domain name registrar Epik.com has come under fire from prominent domain investors and others after CEO Rob Monster suggested that video of the recent mosque shootings in New Zealand, which he hosted on an Epik service... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2766d | 264 | Another dot-brand bites the dust Honeywell International, a $40-billion-a-year US conglomerate, has become the last major company to dump its dot-brand gTLD. The company informed ICANN in February that it no longer wishes to run .honeywell, and ICANN... |
| ISC.org | 2767d | 10 | BIND 9.14.0 Released BIND 9.14.0 is our new stable branch for 2019. As of BIND 9. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2767d | 300 | Whois vacuum AppDetex raises $10 million Brand protection registrar AppDetex, which counts Facebook as its key customer, has raised $10 million in funding. It s the second round of venture capital for the six-year-old Boise, Idaho company. This one was led by... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2768d | 267 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1... This release fixes an issue with security implications that has been recently reported in the HTTP remote backend of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. Setups that are not using this backend are not impacted by this... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2768d | 339 | The DNS’s former overseer now has its own domain name The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which for many years was the instrument of the US government s oversight of the DNS root zone, has got its first proper domain name. It s been operating at... |
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