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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2780d | 342 | At eleventh hour, most .uk registrants still don’t own... Less than a quarter of all third-level .uk registrants have taken up the opportunity to buy their matching second-level domain, just a few months before the deadline. According to February stats from registry Nominet,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2780d | 238 | Mohan takes the reins at Afilias Ram Mohan has appears to have taken over the C-suite at Afilias. The long-time chief technology officer was also yesterday named to the newly created role of chief operating officer, with the suggestion that he s also... |
| ISC.org | 2781d | 11 | About the Internet Domain Survey How Did the Internet Domain Survey Work? The Original Survey The Internet Domain Survey was taken twice a year since 1981. |
| ISC.org | 2781d | 11 | About the Internet Domain Survey What was the ISC Domain Survey? Internet Systems Consortium s Internet Domain Survey, originally started by SRI International, is the longest-running survey of the number of computers connected to the Internet. |
| ISC.org | 2781d | 10 | Hosting an F-Root Node Power Requirements Our system, as requested, comes with dual power supplies, to both protect against the failure of a power supply and protect the system as a whole. |
| ISC.org | 2782d | 10 | QNAME Minimization and Your Privacy Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. Everyone is under constant surveillance by many companies, ranging from social networks like Facebook to cellphone providers. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2782d | 264 | Trademark posse fails to block Whois privacy policy The ICANN community s move to enshrine Whois privacy into formal consensus policy is moving forward, despite votes to block it by intellectual property interests. During a special meeting yesterday, the GNSO Council... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2782d | 269 | Nevett headhunts top execs from three rivals Public Interest Registry has filled out its executive team by poaching senior staff from rivals Afilias, Donuts and Neustar. Judy Song-Marshall of Neustar has joined as chief of staff, Joe Abley of Afilias is the new... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2782d | 794 | Internet to lose its .co.ck? Cook Islands mulls name... The government of the Cook Islands is reportedly thinking about changing its name, putting a question mark over the long-term longevity of its .ck top-level domain. The AFP is reporting that an exploratory committee has... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2782d | 323 | Donuts founder replaces Pitts as MMX’s premium guru MMX has hired one of Donuts recently departed co-founders to market its premium domain name inventory, the company said today. Dan Schindler, formerly Donuts executive VP, has been hired as a special advisor , tasked... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2782d | 347 | Phishing still on the decline, despite Whois privacy The number of detected phishing attacks almost halved last year, despite the fact that new Whois privacy rules have made it cheaper for attackers to hide their identities. There were 138,328 attacks in the fourth quarter... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2785d | 283 | Remembering Gopher Today’s Web is full of magical sites with clever user interfaces in which developers invent all manner of “useful” features such as not being able to paste passwords. A lot of sites are beautiful, really, with heavy... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2786d | 621 | SSHd and AuthorizedKeysCommand In 2012 I wrote a short piece on retrieving SSH public keys from a DNS-based FUSE pseudo file system , and I’ve been meaning to address that since about a year later, because SSH then got a configurable program to... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2786d | 404 | Registrars given six months to deploy Whois killer ICANN has started the clock ticking on the mandatory industry-wide deployment of RDAP. gTLD registries and registrars have until August 26 this year to roll out RDAP services, which will one day replace the age-old Whois... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2786d | 339 | Neustar completes .in migration The transfer of India s suite of ccTLDs from Afilias to Neustar is done. NIXI, the .in registry, announced today: The transition of .IN to its new Neustar-backed Registry platform is now complete. With 2.2 million names,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2786d | 331 | Scottish registry dumps the pound over Brexit fears The .scot gTLD registry has decided to dump the British pound as its currency of choice, due to fears over Brexit. DotScot s back-end, CORE, told registrars this week that it will start billing in euros from March 29.... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2787d | 254 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released It has been too long a time since the release of PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0-alpha1. The Beta 1 release comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and also some new features: LMDB backend, Fixes for OpenBSD and... |
| Miek Gieben | 2788d | 60 | Tweets of February 28 2019 RT @TheEconomist: The blame for Britain s miserable state of affairs lies squarely with Jacob Rees-Mogg’s European Research Group https://t… Thu Feb 28 07:23:58 +0000 2019 Replying to @isomer Decimal! Thu Feb 28 11:19:53... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2788d | 256 | ICANN pushes IANA under Conrad ICANN chief technology officer David Conrad is now overseeing the IANA part of the organization, ICANN has announced. It doesn t appear to be a promotion or change of job titles as much as a reporting structure... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2788d | 289 | .film gTLD sees spike after dropping restrictions The .film gTLD saw a small spike in registrations this week after dropping eligibility requirements. The Australia-based registry, Motion Picture Domain Registry, went fully unrestricted February 22 and immediately saw... |
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