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2916d404US not happy with Donuts hiring Atallah
The US government appears to have reservations about Donuts recent hiring of ICANN bigwig Akram Atallah as its new CEO. Speaking at a session of ICANN 63 here in Barcelona today, National Telecommunications and...
2917d481RFC 8484: DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH)
Voici un nouveau moyen d'envoyer des requêtes DNS, DNS over HTTPS>DoH (DNS over HTTPS). Requêtes et réponses, au lieu de voyager directement sur UDP ou TCP sont encapsulées dans HTTP, plus exactement HTTPS. Le but ? Il...
2917d328ICANN denies it’s in bed with trademark lawyers
ICANN chair Cherine Chalaby has strongly denied claims from non-commercial stakeholders that its attitude to Whois reform is biased in favour of special interests such as trademark lawyers. In a remarkably fast reply...
2918d277ICANN 63, Day 0 — registrars bollock DI as Whois debate...
Blameless, cherubic domain industry news blogger Kevin Murphy received a bollocking from registrars over recent coverage of Whois reform yesterday, as he attended the first day of ICANN 63, here in Barcelona. Meanwhile,...
2920d477Les générateurs de site Web statiques, et mon choix de...
J'ai récemment dû faire deux sites Web et leur cahier des charges permettait de faire des sites Web statiques, ce qui a de nombreux avantages. Parmi les dizaines de logiciels qui permettent de faire un site Web statique,...
2921d355Registrars still not responding to private Whois requests
Registrars are still largely ignoring requests for private Whois data, according to a brand protection company working for Facebook. AppDetex wrote to ICANN (pdf) last week to say that only 3% of some 9,000 requests it...
2921d268Book review — “Domain Names: Strategies and Legal Aspects”
I ve only ever read two books about the domain name industry. The first one was Kieren McCarthy s excellent Sex.com, the 2007 barely believable non-fictional tech-thriller that seemed to deliberately eschew...
2921d230Co-founder Nevett leaves Donuts
Donuts executive vice president of corporate affairs Jon Nevett has left the company, Donuts said yesterday. He s the last of the four co-founders of the new gTLD portfolio owner to step aside from their original roles...
2922d10Kea Hackathon in Gdańsk
Report from the Kea Hackathon in Gdańsk last week: We spent the first day of the hackathon working on the overall design for the management API for the configuration in the database backend feature coming in Kea 1.
2923d268The internet is still working after KSK roll
The first-ever change to the security keys at the top of the DNS tree appears to have been a non-event. While ICANN received reports of some disruptions after last Thursday s KSK rollover, the impact appears to have...
2923d361Donuts loses to ICANN in $135 million .web auction appeal
Donuts has lost a legal appeal against ICANN in its fight to prevent Verisign running the .web gTLD. A California court ruled yesterday that a lower court was correct when it ruled almost two years ago that Donuts had...
2925d202FOSDEM 2019 DNS devroom CfP
Hello DNS enthusiasts and other developers, After a successful and well-filled half day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2018, we are happy to announce a full day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2019. As last year, we hope to host talks...
2927d314ICANN says it can spend quarter-billion-dollar auction...
ICANN can tap into its $236 million new gTLD auction fund whenever it wants, and there s nothing the community can do about it, according to its board of directors. The board this week said it has a legal and fiduciary...
2929d300Google abandons its .kid gTLD bid
Google has retreated from the interminable three-way battle for the .kids/.kid gTLDs. The company this week withdrew its application for .kid, leaving the fight for .kids a two-horse race between Amazon and the...
2929d322Breaking: ICANN number two Atallah is new CEO of Donuts
Akram Atallah, head of ICANN s Global Domains Division, has quit and joined Donuts as its new CEO, DI has learned. According to multiple sources, Atallah s last day at ICANN was yesterday. While neither company has...
2931d306ICANN blocks .islam after government veto
After six years, ICANN has finally killed off the applications for the new gTLDs .islam and .halal, due to objections from several governments. It has also rejected the application for .persiangulf from the same...
2931d237PowerDNS and the ICANN KSK roll
The root KSK rollover is currently planned for 1600 UTC on the 11th of October 2018 a few days from now. If you are using PowerDNS Recursor for DNSSEC validation, please keep reading! During the KSK rollover, the root...
2931d244Nominet to donate over $260,000 to Children In Need
UK ccTLD registry Nominet said today that it will donate £1 ($1.31) for every domain registered to the charity Children In Need. The initiative, which runs from today until November 19, is being backed up with a £200,000...
2931d334LaTeX cheat sheet
This is a small LaTeX cheat sheet: Section: Use: \section{name} Subsection: Use: \subsection{name} List (unumered): Use: \begin{itemize} \item{My first list item} \item{My second list item} \end{itemize} List (numbered):...
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