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2931d291CentralNic buys .fans for peanuts
CentralNic has acquired the flailing new gTLD .fans for an undisclosed sum. The value of the deal was low enough that publicly traded CentralNic was not obliged to disclose the purchase to the market, CEO Ben Crawford...
2933d295Click here to kill everybody
D'accord, le titre est vraiment putaclic mais il résume bien le livre. Bruce Schneier se pose la question de la sécurité de l'Internet des Objets, faisant notamment remarquer que le conséquences d'une panne ou d'une...
2934d301Is auDA’s new marketing windfall working?
Australian ccTLD .au appears to be growing at a faster rate after registry auDA cut its wholesale prices and devoted millions of dollars to marketing. While the numbers are by no means conclusive, in the three months...
2934d346Google adds censorship workaround to Android devices
Google is using experimental DNS to help people in censorious regimes access blocked web sites. Alphabet sister company Jigsaw this week released an Android app called Intra, which enables users to tunnel their DNS...
2934d369Spammy .loan makes Alibaba fastest-growing and...
Chinese registrar Alibaba was both the fastest-growing and fastest-shrinking registrar in June, purely due to its dalliance with hundreds of thousands of cheap .loan domain names. Stats compiled by DI from the latest...
2935d289Here’s what ICANN’s boss is saying about Whois access now
Should ICANN become the sole source for looking up private domain registrant data? That s one of the options for the post-GDPR world of Whois currently being mulled over on Waterfront Drive. ICANN CEO Goran Marby laid...
2935d236Parsons quits GoDaddy board
Bob Parsons has resigned from GoDaddy s board of directors, 21 years after he founded the company. The registrar announced today that Parsons will leave this Friday to devote more attention to his philanthropic Bob and...
2936d268Brazil dancing around four million reg milestone
The Brazilian ccTLD, .br, last week topped four million registrations for the first time, then promptly dropped back below the milestone. The TLD was at 4,000,260 domains on Monday September 24, prompting a press release...
2937d299Donuts says DPML now covers “millions” of trademark...
Donuts has added more than a third to the price of its Domain Protected Marks List service, as it adds a new feature it says vastly increases the number of domains trademark owners can block. The company has added...
2938d250Chinese registrars on the decline
Having been on a growth trajectory for some years, the number of ICANN-accredited registrars based in China appears to be on the decline. According to my records, so far this year 26 registrar contracts have been...
2938d343$3.2 million-a-year registrar up for grabs
Swedish ccTLD registry IIS is to sell off its registrar business, .SE Direkt, which is expected to be bring in some $3.2 million in revenue this year. The foundation said today that .SE Direkt has 121,836 .se domains...
2938d13ethq – A New Linux NIC Monitoring Tool
Network Interface Cards (NICs) often maintain multiple queues for transmitted and received packets and the Linux operating system kernel can be tuned to have each queue handled by a specific CPU core.
2939d287Conférence « Web et vie privée » au Centre Social des...
Le 28 septembre, au Centre Social des Abeilles (http://www.centredesabeilles.fr/) à Quimper, j'ai participé à un apéro/discussion (http://www.centredesabeilles.fr/web-et-vie-privee-2/) sur le thème « Web et vie privée »....
2939d65Tweets of September 30 2018
Replying to @capileigh https://github.com/miekg/block (I probably won t work on it very much) Sun Sep 30 07:50:09 +0000 2018 Replying to @segfaulthunter That s blendle iirc Sun Sep 30 11:30:48 +0000 2018 Replying to...
2941d255It’s Drazek vs Dammak for GNSO Council chair
The chair of ICANN s Generic Names Supporting Organization Council is contested this year, with a registry veep facing off against a software engineer. The nomination from the contracted parties house is US-based Keith...
2941d337Cloudflare selling all domains at cost: “All we’re doing...
Content delivery network provider Cloudflare has promised to sell domains in all TLDs at the wholesale cost, with no markup, forever. The company made the commitment yesterday as it announced its intention to get into...
2942d260MMX waving goodbye to .london? Boss puts focus on renewal...
MMX s revenue from domain renewals could cover all of its expenses within the next 24 months, if everything goes to plan, according to CEO Toby Hall. Hall was speaking to DI this evening after the company reported its...
2943d501Emoji domains now easier to use
Emoji domains have become marginally easier to navigate to in the last month, following an update to Google s Chrome browser. Google has added Emoji to the context menu that appears when users right-click in any editable...
2945d276Chutzpah alert! DotKids wants ICANN handout to fight gTLD...
New gTLD applicant DotKids Foundation has asked ICANN for money to help it fight for .kids in an auction against Amazon and Google. The not-for-profit was the only new gTLD applicant back in 2012 to meet the criteria for...
2946d343[DNS] CNAME à l'apex d'une zone, pourquoi et comment ?
Un problème courant que rencontrent les techniciens débutant en DNS est « je voudrais mettre un enregistrement CNAME - un alias - à l'apex de ma zone DNS mais l'ordinateur ne veut pas ». Pourquoi est-ce refusé ? Comment...
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