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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2804d | 305 | Court rules generic dictionary domains CAN be trademarked A US appeals court has ruled that generic, dictionary domain names can be trademarked. The hotel-booking web site Booking.com was told last week that it is in fact eligible to have Booking.com registered as a trademark,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2804d | 269 | ICANN director Burr leaving Neustar Neustar is losing its chief privacy officer, Becky Burr, who also sits on ICANN s board of directors. Burr, a lawyer, said last week that she s decided to return to private practice after almost seven years at the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2804d | 316 | Right of the colon? IDN getting killed over dot confusion An internationalized domain name ccTLD is reportedly getting buried because of a confusion about how many dots should appear. Armenia s .հայ (.xn--y9a3aq) today has fewer than 300 registered domains, well under 1% of the... |
| Ask Mr. DNS | 2805d | 325 | Episode 57 in which Matt and Cricket, in a cunning bit of Tom Sawyering, take Rob Fleischman s question about how recursive DNS servers handle TTLs of zero, and induce Rob to both a) join the podcast as a guest and 2) paint their... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2807d | 296 | FOSDEM vs. Config Management Camp I was asked to moderate a discussion about all aspects of DNS privacy at FOSDEM, and I gladly went for that. I’d not been at FOSDEM yet, but I had read about its size, and it really is huge.
Seconds after arriving at... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2808d | 307 | Sur les pas de Lucy Depuis la découverte de Lucy en 1974, tous les protagonistes, quelle que soit l'importance de leur participation réelle, ont écrit sur les expéditions qui ont mené à cette découverte. Ici, Raymonde Bonnefille nous fait... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2808d | 357 | Habemus Piratam Voici un roman policier que je recommande, dans le monde de la cybersécurité, « Habemus Piratam (http://www.alma-editeur.fr/habemus_piratam.html) ». |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2808d | 373 | Despite Afilias lawsuit, Neustar names date for Indian... Neustar has named the date for the transition of the .in registry away from incumbent Afilias.. It s due to happen February 28, according to a new web site the company has set up to publicize the handover. The registry... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2808d | 374 | Endurance domain revenue dips Endurance International put in a poor show when it came to domains name sales in 2018. Revenue and average revenue per registrant were both down in the fourth quarter and full-year results, which were announced this... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2809d | 298 | The big DNS Privacy Debate at FOSDEM This weekend at the excellent FOSDEM gathering there were no less than three presentations on DNS over HTTPs. Daniel Stenberg presented a keynote session “DNS over HTTPS the good, the bad and the ugly” (video), Vittorio... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2810d | 397 | RFC 8522: Looking Glass Command Set Avec plusieurs systèmes de routage, et notamment avec le protocole standard de l'Internet, BGP, un routeur donné n'a qu'une vue partielle du réseau. Ce que voit votre routeur n'est pas forcément ce que verront les autres... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2811d | 256 | After ICANN knockback, Amazon countries agree to .amazon... Talks that could lead to Amazon finally getting its long-sought .amazon gTLD are back on, after a dispute between ICANN and eight South American governments. The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization last week invited... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2811d | 316 | Operation September Thrust leads to another million-domain.. Radix has become the first new gTLD portfolio registry to hit over one million domains in more than one TLD. It said today that .site has crossed the seven-digit threshold, joining .online, which hit a million names in... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2811d | 294 | Brexit blamed as .eu hits six-year low EURid s .eu top-level domain has hit a six-year low in terms of total registrations, and Brexit is to blame. The registry has just announced that it had 3,684,750 domains under management at the end of 2018, down 63,129... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2811d | 297 | CentralNic expects flat profit as revenue almost doubles London-listed domain firm CentralNic today gave investors a sneak preview of its 2018 financial performance. The company expects its profits at the adjusted EBITDA level to be up only slightly from £6.6 million ($8.62... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2811d | 429 | XYZ reveals .monster gTLD launch dates XYZ.com has quietly unveiled its launch plan for its recently acquired gTLD, .monster. General availability, with no eligibility requirements, is due to begin April 1. The 30-day sunrise period is due to begin in just a... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2814d | 403 | RFC 8410: Algorithm Identifiers for Ed25519, Ed448,... Ce RFC spécifie l'utilisation des courbes elliptiques Curve25519 et Curve448 dans PKIX, c'est-à-dire dans les certificats utilisés notamment pour TLS. Il réserve des identifiants pour les algorithmes, comme "Ed25519". |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2814d | 415 | Changes in the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 (Note: our CentOS 7 repo for PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0-alpha1 currently has a problem.) The 4.2.0 release of the PowerDNS Recursor brings a lot of small, incremental changes over the 4.1.x releases. We expect little... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2814d | 366 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.11 Released Since Spectre / Meltdown, system calls have become more expensive. In addition, relevant versions of glibc turn out to implement pthread_cond_wait and pthread_cond_signal in such a way that they use multiple system calls... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2815d | 316 | Aujourd'hui, le « DNS flag day » Je vois dans le journal du moteur de recherche de ce blog (/search) que des gens cherchent des informations sur le DNS Flag Day (https://dnsflagday.net/). Donc, je mets cet article pour qu'on puisse trouver l'information... |
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