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2768d426Tucows splurges $30 million on Ascio
Tucows has spent almost $30 million on rival channel-focused registrar Ascio Technologies. The company announced this morning that the $29.44 million deal will add about 1.8 million domains to its portfolio of managed...
2768d317UDRP complaints hit new high at WIPO
The World Intellectual Property Organization handled 3,447 UDRP cases in 2018, a new high for the 20-year-old anti-cybersquatting policy. The filings represent an increase of over 12% compared to the 3,074 UDRP cases...
2769d287PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.7 and 4.1.7 Released
These two releases fix 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...
2770d295RFC 8490: DNS Stateful Operations
Autrefois, le DNS était toujours cité comme exemple d'un protocole sans état. On envoie une requête, on reçoit une réponse, et le client et le serveur oublient aussitôt qu'ils ont échangé, ils ne gardent pas de trace de...
2770d309.vu to relaunch under mystery new registry
Vanuatu is to attempt to broaden the appeal of its .vu domain globally by switching to a new shared registry system. The changes were initiated last week in Kobe, when the ICANN board of directors gave the final stamp of...
2772d364AlpNames could get PAID for abandoning its customers
So it turns out selling domain names for peanuts to spammers isn t a viable business model. Who d have thunk? As you ll have no doubt already read elsewhere, ICANN has shut down AlpNames, the deep-discounting registrar...
2773d322O.com might be a one-off for Verisign
Verisign today was finally given approval to auction off o.com, the first single-character .com domain to hit the market since the early 1990s. The ICANN board of directors voted to approve a contractual amendment that...
2774d363Andruff escalates Disspain feud, asks ICANN to ban him...
Domain consultant and former registry boss Ron Andruff has asked ICANN s board of directors to ban Chris Disspain from becoming chair at the end of the year. Writing on CircleID today, Andruff s anti-Disspain message is...
2775d11A Curious Case of Intermittent BIND 9 System Test Failures
In early 2018, we started using GitLab as the development platform for BIND 9.
2775d277Rumors swirl as AlpNames suffers “days” of downtime
The web site of controversial registrar AlpNames has been offline for days , and rumors have started to circulate that it might not just a technical problem. At time of writing, alpnames.com resolves to a Cloudflare...
2775d282ICANN plays tough over Amazon dot-brands
ICANN has given Amazon and the governments of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization less than a month to sort out their long-running dispute over the .amazon gTLD. The organization s board of directors voted on...
2775d253Data beats Merdinger to head universal acceptance group
Email entrepreneur and internationalized domain name expert Ajay Data has been named as the new chair of the group that is struggling to promote the universal acceptance of top-level domains across the internet. Data,...
2775d335Radix sees revenue up 30%
New gTLD registry Radix said today that its revenue increased by 30% in 2018, largely due to an end-of-year boost. The company, which runs nine gTLDs including .online and .site, said that gross revenue was $16.95...
2779d296Conférence « Vie privée et Internet : derrière les...
Aujourd'hui, conférence sur la vie privée à Limoges, à la bibliothèque francophone multimédia (http://bfm.limoges.fr/).
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2780d398Verisign gets approval to sell O.com for $7.85
ICANN is to grant Verisign the right to sell a single-character .com domain name for the first time in over 25 years. The organization s board of directors is due to vote next Thursday to approve a complex proposal that...
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