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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| PowerDNS Blog | 2965d | 517 | On Firefox moving DNS to a third party DNS lookups occur for every website visited. The processor of DNS requests gets a complete picture of what a household or phone is doing on the internet. In addition, DNS can be used to block sites or to discover if... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2969d | 324 | .tel’s second-biggest registrar gets canned A Chinese registrar that focused exclusively on selling .tel domain names has been shut down by ICANN. Tong Ji Ming Lian (Beijing) Technology Corporation Ltd, which did business as Trename, had its registrar contract... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2969d | 283 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.4 released We ve just released PowerDNS Recursor version 4.1.4, this is a maintenance release with no major changes. One new setting was added, this is the max-udp-queries-per-round, which controls the maximum amount of messages... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2969d | 315 | Whois privacy did NOT increase spam volumes The advent of more-or-less blanket Whois privacy has not immediately led to the feared uptick in spam, according to researchers. Data from Cisco s Talos email data service, first highlighted by security company Recorded... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2969d | 315 | Afilias finally admits it’s American Afilias has changed its corporate structure and is now officially based in the United States. A new holding company, Afilias Inc, has been created in Delaware. It now owns Afilias Plc, the Ireland-based company that has... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2970d | 339 | Le livre-échange Le livre, sous ses deux formes, papier ou numérique, est un objet de passion depuis longtemps. Ce ne sont pas juste des lettres qu'on lit. Les lecteurices ont des usages, des pratiques, ils et elles se prêtent les... |
| Miek Gieben | 2970d | 66 | Tweets of August 30 2018 RT @gtank__: @miekg @dgryski Here you go! https://github.com/gtank/gophercon-2018-microoptimizing-go/raw/master/Micro-Optimizing%20Go%20Code%20(GopherCon%20Denver%202018).pdf Wed Aug 29 22:15:37 +0000 2018 millions of... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2970d | 251 | Could a new US law make GDPR irrelevant? Opponents of Whois privacy are pushing for legislation that would basically reverse the impact of GDPR for the vast majority of domain names. Privacy advocate Milton Mueller of the Internet Governance Project today... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2970d | 237 | No more free ride for ICANN Fellows? Newcomers who get free travel to ICANN meetings will have to show they re serious about participating in the community, under new rules. ICANN is revamping its Fellowship program to ensure that it s actually meetings its... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2971d | 282 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.4 released We re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative server version 4.1.4. This maintenance release features several bug fixes. The two most important being a fix in the handling of child-zones with DNS... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2972d | 338 | Afilias sues India to block $12 million Neustar back-end... Afilias has sued the Indian government to prevent it awarding the .in ccTLD back-end registry contract to fierce rival Neustar. The news emerged in local reports over the weekend and appears to be corroborated by... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2973d | 363 | More consolidation? Endurance said to be up for sale Endurance International Groups is reportedly up for sale, perhaps the next piece of consolidation or privatization in a rapidly changing domain name market. Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources, reports today that EIG is is... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2977d | 250 | ICANN faces critical choice as security experts warn... Members of ICANN s top security body have advised the organization to further delay plans to change the domain name system s top cryptographic key. Five dissenting members of the influential, 22-member Security and... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2978d | 250 | .CLUB revenue not all that .CLUB Domains may be one of the 5000 fastest-growing companies in the US, according to Inc magazine, but it s returning the majority of its revenue back to its registrars. CEO Colin Campbell revealed this week that the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2979d | 231 | Microsoft seizes “Russian election hacking” domains Microsoft has taken control of six domains associated with a hacker group believed to be a part of Russian military intelligence, according to the company. Company president Brad Smith blogged yesterday that Microsoft... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2979d | 234 | New gTLDs rebound in Q2 New gTLD registration volumes reversed a long trend of decline in the second quarter, according to Verisign s latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The DNIB (pdf), published late last week, shows new gTLD domains up by 1.6... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2983d | 250 | .CLUB revenue reportedly $7.2 million .CLUB Domains had $7.2 million of revenue in 2017. That s according to Inc magazine, which ranked the company at 1164th in its 2018 Inc 5000 list of the fastest-growing US-based companies. Growth over three years for... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2984d | 280 | How a single Whois complaint got this registrar shitcanned A British registrar has had its ICANN contract terminated after a lengthy, unprecedented fight instigated by a single complaint about the accuracy of a single domain s Whois. Astutium, based in London and with about... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2985d | 236 | 38th dot-brand bows out after acquisition Telecity Group, which used to be a major London-based internet collocation facilities operator, has told ICANN it no longer wishes to run its dot-brand gTLD. .telecity will become the 38th dot-brand gTLD to terminate its... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2985d | 236 | ICANN CTO: no reason to delay KSK rollover ICANN s board of directors will be advised to go ahead with a key security change at the DNS root the so-called KSK rollover this October, according to the organization s CTO. We don t see any reason to postpone again,... |
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