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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISC.org | 2815d | 11 | DNS Flag Day, was it a success? DNS Flag Day is a public-benefit movement, like a community trash pick up day in a common area everyone uses. |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2815d | 313 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.6 Released This release fixes a single issue: the PowerDNS API would accept more than one CNAME record for the same name attribute and would return 204 instead of refusing and returning a 4xx error. The changelog: #7279: Prevent... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2815d | 383 | Huge batch of Afilias TLDs approved in China Seventeen Afilias-operated gTLDs have been approved for use in China. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced yesterday that the following Afilias-owned TLDs now have its official seal of approval:... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2815d | 298 | .SE sells off $3.2 million registrar biz Swedish ccTLD registry IIS has sold off its registrar business, .SE Direkt, to a local registrar for an undisclosed sum. The buyer is Loopia, a web hosting company focused on the Swedish market. It will take over in a... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2816d | 359 | RFC 8504: IPv6 Node Requirements Il existe des tas de RFC qui concernent IPv6 et le programmeur qui met en œuvre ce protocole dans une machine risque fort d'en rater certains, ou bien d'implémenter certains qu'il aurait pu éviter. Ce RFC est donc un... |
| Miek Gieben | 2816d | 65 | Tweets of January 31 2019 RT @petertimmins3: Just to be absolutely clear for all #Leavers. The EU negotiated a deal with the UK in good faith. The EU acted wholly h… Thu Jan 31 07:22:55 +0000 2019 Replying to @monadic and @Microsoft Why are you... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2816d | 276 | ICANN picks Seattle for public meeting ICANN will hold one of its 2021 public meetings in Seattle, Washington. The organization s board of directors directed the CEO to start talks with the yet-unnamed venue at its meeting at the weekend. The meeting, ICANN... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2816d | 304 | ICANN approves two new TLDs, including THAT one ICANN s board of directors has given the nod to two more country-code TLDs. The eight-year-old nation of South Sudan is finally getting its possibly controversial .ss, while Mauritania is getting the Arabic-script... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2817d | 214 | MMX sees better profits than expected Portfolio registry MMX saw 2018 financial results slightly ahead of expectations, the company told investors yesterday. It now expects revenue to be over $15.5 million for the year, compared to $14.3 million in 2017.... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2819d | 516 | RFC 8501: Reverse DNS in IPv6 for Internet Service... Le DNS permet d'avoir des enregistrements de type PTR, dans un sous-arbre spécifique sous ".arpa", permettant d'associer un nom à une adresse IP. Les FAI et autres fournisseurs peuplent souvent ce sous-arbre afin que... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2821d | 356 | Pay up or sell up, ICANN tells failing new gTLD ICANN has responded to a request for it to reduce the $25,000 annual fee it charges gTLD registries. The answer is no. That wholly unsurprising reply came in a letter from registry services director Russ Weinstein to... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2821d | 273 | Brexit boost for Irish domains Irish ccTLD .ie saw record growth in 2018 after the registry relaxed its registration rules. According to IEDR, there were 262,140 .ie domains at the end of the year, an increase of 10.4%. There were 51,040 new... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2821d | 289 | Brexit won’t just affect Brits, .eu registry says European Union citizens living in the UK could find their .eu domain names shut off in the next few months, EURid has said. In a just-published update to its Brexit guidance, the registry has told Brits that they stand... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2822d | 279 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.10 Released This release is only relevant when building PowerDNS Recursor from source with protobuf support disabled. Release 4.1.10 fixes a bug where the recursor would not build when one had protobuf support disabled.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2823d | 342 | New domain price guessing game warns against “asshole... You re a domain expert, right? Think you could accurately guess which of two randomly selected domain names sold for the larger amount of money on the secondary market? A simple new game, which appears to have been... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2823d | 395 | Domain security outside of DNS: Getting hacked... This is a brief blogpost on the news that has been sent to us by many people, namely that there is a suspected Iranian group that is hijacking DNS . I was about to be interviewed on this subject but sadly that fell... |
| Ask Mr. DNS | 2825d | 285 | Episode 56 We re back with an emergency episode published just in time to inform your frantic preparations for DNS Flag Day on 1 February 2019. We re delighted to welcome another special guest, Petr Špaček from CZ.NIC, to fill us... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2825d | 339 | Nazis rejoice! A TLD for you could be coming soon The domain name system could soon get its first new standard country-code domain for eight years. This weekend, ICANN s board of directors is set to vote on whether to allow the delegation of a ccTLD for the relatively... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2825d | 290 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.9 Released We are very happy to announce the 4.1.9 release of the PowerDNS Recursor. This release is fixing two security issues, and addressing a shortcoming in the way incoming queries are distributed to threads under heavy... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2825d | 309 | ICANN creates female-heavy anti-harassment team ICANN s board of directors has created a new team to look at issues of harassment in the community. The new Board Working Group on Anti-Harassment has eight members, six of whom are women. In fact, all six female members... |
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