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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2950d | 312 | Afilias gets Guinness record for .au migration Afilias has got its recent takeover of .au recognized by Guinness as an official world record. The company was given the title of Largest Migration of an Internet Top-Level Domain in a Single Transition at an event in... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2950d | 295 | KSK vote was NOT unanimous ICANN s board of directors on Sunday voted to approve the forthcoming security key change at the DNS root, but there was some dissent. Director Avri Doria, a Nominating Committee appointee, said today that she provided... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2951d | 274 | ICANN turns 20 today (or maybe not) ICANN is expected to celebrate its 20th anniversary at its Barcelona meeting next month, but by some measures it has already had its birthday. If you ask Wikipedia, it asserts that ICANN was created on September 18,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2952d | 385 | Van der Laan to leave ICANN board Former Dutch politician Lousewies van der Laan is to leave the ICANN board of directors next month and be replaced with the former CEO of the Serbian ccTLD. ICANN said yesterday that Danko Jevtovic, who headed RNIDS from... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2952d | 274 | Set buttocks to clench! ICANN approves risky KSK rollover ICANN has approved the first rollover of the domain name system s master security key, setting the clock ticking on a change that could cause internet access issues for millions. The so-called KSK rollover, when ICANN... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2952d | 373 | Mediators hired as Whois reformers butt heads ICANN has hired professional mediators to help resolve strong disagreements in the working group tasked with reforming Whois for the post-GDPR world. Kurt Pritz, chair of the Expedited Policy Development Process for... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2955d | 523 | Position and event forwarding from Traccar The Traccar server component has rather good support for notifying a user of a particular event. For example when a device enters or leaves a geofence or, if the device has support for it, notifying that ignition has... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2956d | 516 | US scraps fucking stupid “seven dirty words” ban Neustar and the US government have agreed to dump their longstanding ban on profanity in .us domains. A contract change quietly published in July has now made it possible to register .us domains containing the strings... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2956d | 368 | Beginning of the end for DomainTools? Court orders it to... DomainTools has been temporarily banned from collecting and publishing the Whois records of all .nz domains. A Washington court yesterday handed down a preliminary injunction against the company, after New Zealand s... |
| ISC.org | 2956d | 11 | BIND 9 Packages From ISC Note: This blog post is historical. We have a knowledgebase article that provides more up to date information about BIND 9 packages from ISC. |
| ISC.org | 2956d | 10 | BIND 9.13.3 The major changes in BIND 9.13 are related to code modernization. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2958d | 488 | PIR chief: registries should stop stressing about volume Public Interest Registry has announced some sweeping changes to how it markets .org and its other TLDs, with interim CEO Jay Daley telling DI that there s too much focus on volumes in the industry today. PIR is scrapping... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2958d | 410 | .CLUB sees spam double after China promotion .CLUB Domains has seen the amount of spam in .club double a month after seeing a huge registration spike prompted by a deep discount deal. The registry saw its domains under management go up by about 200,000 names over a... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2958d | 370 | Com Laude acquires Scottish rival Brand protection registrar Com Laude has picked up smaller competitor Demys for an undisclosed sum. Demys, based in Edinburgh, is an ICANN-accredited registrar that specializes in the UK automotive, retail/leisure, media... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2958d | 353 | Upset about Sonos All I wanted for Christmas in 2009 was a Sonos. Almost nine years have passed since I purchased the first S5 player (they’re called differently now), and we enjoyed the system so much, that we recommended it to quite a... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2958d | 431 | Spoofing DNS with fragments With some care, it turns out to be possible to spoof fake DNS responses using fragmented datagrams. While preparing a presentation for XS4ALL back in 2009, I found out how this could be done, but I never got round to... |
| Miek Gieben | 2960d | 76 | Helicopter Vlucht London Helicopter vlucht over London. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2962d | 302 | CentralNic acquired yet another company Acquisitive registry/registrar CentralNic has picked up another company, paying up to €2.56 million ($2.95 million) for a small Delaware-based registrar. It will pay €1.5 million up-front for GlobeHosting, with the rest... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2964d | 274 | Empty Whois a threat to the US elections? Could a lack of Whois records thwart the fight against attempts to interfere in this year s US elections? That s the threat raised by DomainTools CEO Tim Chen in a blog post, and others, this week. Chen points to recent... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2964d | 463 | Donuts gets bought by former ICANN CEO’s firm Donuts is to be bought by a private equity firm that has a former ICANN CEO as a partner. The company, which holds the largest portfolio of new gTLDs, has agreed to be acquired by Boston-based private equity firm Abry... |
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