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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2891d | 257 | ICANN probing Donuts and Tucows over anti-Jewish web site ICANN is investigating Tucows and Donuts over a web site that hosts antisemitic, white supremacist content. CEO Goran Marby said in a letter published this week that he has referred a complaint about the web site... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2893d | 573 | Bad.monster? Two more gTLDs have been acquired Two more new gTLDs have changed hands, DI has learned. XYZ.com has picked up former dot-brand .monster from recruitment web site Monster.com, while newbie registry Intercap Holdings has acquired .dealer from Dealer.com.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2893d | 261 | First non-brand gTLD to go dark The number of new gTLDs to voluntarily terminate their ICANN contracts has hit 45, with the first non-brand calling it quits. It s a geo-gTLD, .doha, which was meant to represent the Qatari capital of Doha. There were no... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2894d | 465 | Two controversial new gTLDs launching in January Five years after the first batch of new gTLDs hit the market, registries continue to drip-feed them into the internet. At least two more are due to launch on January 16 .dev and .inc. .dev is the latest of Google s... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2898d | 669 | Afilias bought .io for $70 million Did you know Afilias owns .io? I didn t, but it paid $70 million for the popular alternative TLD 18 months ago. A recently published financial statement in Ireland shows that the company spent $70.17 million cash a 10x... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2898d | 423 | Uniregistry calls for domain Bill of Rights as Schilling... Uniregistry has called for a Domain Bill of Rights to protect free speech in a world were domain takedowns can be used to de-platform controversial speakers. Meanwhile, CEO Frank Schilling has told DI that the company... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2898d | 380 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.7 Released Today we have released the PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.7. It is an update to relax EDNS compliance requirements from upstream authoritative servers. Recursor version 4.1.5 (and, by extension, 4.1.6), contains a fix for... |
| ISC.org | 2899d | 10 | Kea 1.5.0 is ready for beta testing Interest in YANG models for standardizing device configuration is exploding at the IETF. |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2899d | 413 | dnsdist 1.3.3 released We are very happy to announce the 1.3.3 release of dnsdist. This release contains a few new features, but is mostly fixing a security issue reported since the release of dnsdist 1.3.2. Security fix While working on a new... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2900d | 272 | Wagner takes dig at Verisign as GoDaddy reports $310... GoDaddy CEO Scott Wagner ducked a question about how the company will react to future .com price increases during its third-quarter earnings call yesterday, but used the opportunity to take a gentle swipe at Verisign.... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2901d | 246 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.6 Released We have just released the PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.6. This release fixes an issue with DNSSEC validation introduced in Recursor 4.1.5 by reverting a code-change related to the acceptation of ADDITIONAL records. We will... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2901d | 388 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.6 & 4.1.5 and Recursor... We’ve released PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.6 4.1.5 and Recursor 4.0.9 4.1.5. These are security releases with additional minor improvements and bug fixes. Minimal patches for the releases are available at... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2902d | 284 | Will ICANN take a bigger slice of the .com pie, or will... Will ICANN try to get its paws on some of Verisign s .com windfall? Or might domainers get a second slap in the face by seeing URS imposed in .com? With Verisign set to receive hundreds of millions of extra dollars due... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2903d | 384 | Trump gives Verisign almost $1 billion in free money The Trump administration may have just handed Verisign close to $1 billion in free money. That s according to the back of the envelope I m looking at right now, following the announcement that the National... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2905d | 324 | Un service d'hébergement de zones DNS accessible au·à la... Dans cet article, je ne vais pas décrire un logiciel ou service existant, ni résumer un RFC. Je voudrais au contraire pointer du doigt un manque dans l'offre existante, à la fois l'offre de services non-commerciaux... |
| Miek Gieben | 2908d | 62 | Tweets of October 31 2018 The type some part url and get the thing you want in #brave is hilarious bad. Wonder how they messed that up Wed Oct 31 21:13:33 +0000 2018 Replying to @stevemcghee Looking forward to your, oh it s impossible to debug... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2913d | 347 | Kirikos lawyers up after ICANN etiquette fight Domain investor George Kirikos has hired lawyers to send nastygrams to ICANN after a fight over the rules of etiquette on a working group mailing list. Kirikos claims there s a campaign of intimidation against him by... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2914d | 448 | This is how AppDetex works A small brand-protection registrar with a big friend caused quite a stir at ICANN 63 here in Barcelona this week, after accusing registrars for the second time of shirking their duties to disclose private Whois data to... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2916d | 405 | Amazon offered $5 million of free Kindles for .amazon gTLD Amazon offered South American governments $5 million worth of free Kindles, content and cloud services in exchange for their endorsement of its .amazon gTLD application, it has emerged. The proposal, made in February,... |
| ISC.org | 2916d | 10 | dnsgen – A DNS Packet Generator In my previous blog article, I talked about the need to generate an even spread of traffic across the queues of a modern multi-core NIC to achieve optimal performance. |
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