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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
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| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2863d | 294 | Exclusive gang of 10 to work on making ICANN the Whois... Ten people have been picked to work on a system that would see ICANN act as the gatekeeper for private Whois information. The organization today announced the composition of what it s calling the Technical Study Group on... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2863d | 257 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0-alpha1: Lua records,... We re proud to release the first alpha version of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2 series. While some users have already deployed this version straight from our package builders or master repositories, this is still... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2864d | 372 | Governments blast ICANN over Amazon gTLDs ICANN seems to have found itself in the center of a diplomatic crisis, after eight South American governments strongly denied they approve of Amazon being given the .amazon gTLD. The Amazon Cooperation Treaty... |
| ISC.org | 2864d | 9 | Kea 1.5 – Centralized configuration control Challenge: How to provision more devices, faster, without increasing errors? Speed, Agility, Accuracy Network administrators are under pressure to streamline provisioning of new devices so they can scale up, deploy new... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2865d | 287 | APIdays et mon exposé sur Internet et les droits humains Les 11 et 12 décembre 2018, à Paris (enfin, à Montrouge), s'est tenue une édition des API Days (https://www.apidays.co/paris), conférence consacrée aux API. J'y ai parlé (en anglais) d'Internet et de ses rapports avec... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2866d | 290 | No more free transfers in Denmark The Danish ccTLD registry has announced that it is to introduce a charge for .dk transfers for the first time in January. From the start of 2019, transfers between registrants will cost DKK 50 (about $7.50), DK... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2866d | 361 | Enabling continuous fuzzing of PowerDNS products We are very happy to announce that PowerDNS recently joined the OSS-Fuzz initiative, enabling continuous fuzzing for critical parts of our products. We are taking this opportunity to share some of our existing security... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2866d | 322 | ICANN outs two more deadbeat new gTLDs ICANN has published breach notices it has sent to two more new gTLD registries, which it says have failed to pay their quarterly accreditation fees. One is a dot-brand, the other is not. The brand is the Arabic اتصالات .... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2866d | 300 | Détails techniques sur l'écriture de mon livre... Comme vous avez pu le voir dans un autre article (livre-publie.html), j'ai écrit un livre nommé « Cyberstructure » et qui parle des relations entre l'architecture technique de l'Internet et les questions politiques. Ce... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2867d | 316 | RFC 8427: Representing DNS Messages in JSON Le format des messages DNS circulant sur le réseau est un format binaire, pas forcément évident à analyser. Pour beaucoup d'applications, il serait sans doute préférable d'utiliser un format normalisé et plus agréable,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2868d | 443 | .eu domains to be sold to non-residents In a few years, you ll no longer than to live in the European Union in order to buy a .eu domain name. Residency requirements are to be dropped under new regulations approved by the European Parliament, Council and... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2868d | 427 | DNS inventor says .luxe first innovation in a decade DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris has endorsed MMX s foray into the blockchain as the first genuine piece of DNS related innovation that I have seen in the last decade . The quote came in an MMX press release this morning,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2868d | 315 | New gTLDs continue growth trend, but can it last? New gTLDs continued to bounce back following a year-long slump in registration volumes, according to Verisign data. The company s latest Domain Name Industry Brief, covering the third quarter, shows new gTLDs growing... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2870d | 349 | Important Changes in PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Hello PowerDNS user, as the year draws to an end, we are preparing for the release of a new version of the Authoritative Server (and the Recursor stay tuned for more news in that area). This release (4.2.0) will see some... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2871d | 417 | No .web until 2021 after Afilias files ICANN appeal Afilias has taken ICANN to arbitration to prevent .web being delegated to Verisign. The company, which came second in the $135 million auction that Verisign won in 2016, filed Independent Review Process documents in late... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2871d | 361 | Nevett lands at PIR Donuts alumnus Jon Nevett has been named the new CEO of Public Interest Registry. Non-profit PIR, which runs .org and related gTLDs, said he will start in the role December 17. Nevett was most recently executive VP at... |
| ISC.org | 2873d | 13 | An Architectural Perspective on the Interaction between... There is a fundamental flaw in the way that some web server operators use the DNS to identify the IP address of the web servers to which they connect. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2874d | 283 | ICANN attendance soars but “females” stay away ICANN attendees identifying themselves as female plummeted to 20% of the total at ICANN 63, even as overall attendance rocketed. According to just-published stats from ICANN, 2,639 people checked in at the Barcelona... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2874d | 312 | Amazon countries fighting back against .amazon gTLD When ICANN s board of directors voted in late October to let Amazon have its controversial .amazon gTLD, it was not entirely clear what governments in the Amazon region of South America thought about it. Now, it is: they... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2874d | 422 | Publication de mon livre « Cyberstructure » Je viens d'écrire un livré nommé « Cyberstructure / Internet, un espace politique » et qui parle des relations entre l'architecture technique de l'Internet et la politique, notamment les droits humains. Il est publié... |
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