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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
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| PowerDNS Blog | 3021d | 237 | dnsdist 1.3.2 released We are very happy to announce the 1.3.2 release of dnsdist. This release contains a few new features, but is mostly fixing bugs and documentation issues reported since the release of dnsdist 1.3.0. You might be wondering... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3021d | 235 | Could crypto solve the Whois crisis? Could there be a cryptographic solution to some of the problems caused by GDPR s impact on public Whois databases? Security experts think so. The Anti-Phishing Working Group has proposed that hashing personal information... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3025d | 234 | Euro-Whois advice still as clear as mud European privacy chiefs have again weighed in to the ongoing debate about GDPR and Whois, offering another thin batch of vague advice to ICANN. The European Data Protection Board, in its latest missive (pdf), fails to... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3025d | 238 | New gTLD fees could be kept artificially high More windfalls for ICANN? It s possible that application fees for new gTLDs could be artificially propped up in order to discourage gaming. In the newly published draft policy recommendations for the next new gTLD round,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3025d | 228 | First-come, first-served for new gTLDs? Have your say Should new gTLDs be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis? That s a possibility that has not yet been ruled out by the ICANN community. The ICANN working group currently writing policy for the next round of gTLD... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3028d | 327 | Fight breaks out as Afilias eats Neustar’s Aussie baby The transition of .au to Afilias registry platform over the weekend seems to have gone quite smoothly, but that hasn t stopped Neustar and a key former executive from lashing back at what it says are the gaining company... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3028d | 226 | .kids gTLD auction probably back on Amazon, Google and a small non-profit appear to be headed to auction to fight for ownership of child-friendly new gTLDs. ICANN last week defrosted the contention set for .kids/.kid; DotKids Foundation s bid for .kids is... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3031d | 219 | Conférence « Cryptographie post-quantique » à Pas Sage en... Le 29 juin, au festival Pas Sage en Seine (https://www.passageenseine.fr/), j'ai eu le plaisir de faire un exposé technique sur la cryptographie post-quantique. Vu les progrès des calculateurs quantiques, faut-il jeter... |
| Miek Gieben | 3031d | 60 | Tweets of June 30 2018 Replying to @m4r10k, @corednsio and @CloudNativeFdn entirely thanks to @tiwari_nitish Sat Jun 30 17:26:57 +0000 2018 Replying to @mikkeloscar Are these public? Because a) post mortems are always interesting b) even more... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3033d | 235 | Archaeologists protest “televangelist” .bible gTLD The head of the Biblical Archaeology Society has harshly criticized .bible and ICANN for the gTLD s restrictive registration policies. Writing in the latest issue of its Biblical Archaeology Review, Robert Cargill said... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3033d | 385 | .co first ccTLD to get China approval Repurposed Colombian ccTLD .co has obtained official government approval to operate in China, according to a consultant who worked on the project. Pinky Brand blogged this week that .co is the first foreign ccTLD to get... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3033d | 240 | All Cyrillic .eu domains to be deleted Eurid has announced that Cyrillic domain names in .eu will be deleted a year from now. The registry said that it s doing so to comply with the no script mixing recommendations for internationalized domain names, which... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3035d | 229 | ICANN heads to Cancun for Spring Break boondoggle ICANN has named the three venues for its 2020 public meetings. They are Cancun, Kuala Lumpur and Hamburg. The first meeting of the year, the so-called Community Forum, will be held March 7 to 12 at the Cancun... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3035d | 309 | GoDaddy signs up for basically unrestricted .travel gTLD Donuts has started to market the now practically prehistoric and newly liberalized gTLD .travel, and it s signed up GoDaddy to offer domains there. The registry, which acquired .travel from former owner Tralliance in... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3035d | 229 | Biggest TLD handover in history happens this weekend Australia s ccTLD registry will be down for 36 hours this weekend as it executes the biggest back-end transition in the history of the DNS. Starting 0800 AEST on Saturday (2200 UTC on Friday), Afilias will take over the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3035d | 247 | Web.com to be acquired for $2 billion Web.com is to go private in a deal valued at roughly $2 billion. The company, which owns pioneering registrars Network Solutions and Register.com as well as SnapNames and half of NameJet, will be bought by an affiliate... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 3038d | 240 | There will be home automation with openHAB When Ton Kersten asked me a few weeks ago whether I’d like to prepare a home automation workshop to be held in Utrecht, I quickly said yes.
It’s been four and a half years since I started using openHAB , and I haven’t... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3039d | 346 | Has the world’s biggest new gTLD registry gone bankrupt? Has Famous Four Media, by some measures the largest new gTLD registry, gone bankrupt? There s some startling evidence that this may be the case, but the company and others concerned are maintaining radio silence. Last... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3041d | 260 | $44 billion company is latest deadbeat gTLD registry Indian car-making giant Tata Motors has become the latest new gTLD registry to fail to pay its ICANN fees. According to a breach notice (pdf), $44 billion-a-year Tata hasn t paid its $6,250 quarterly registry fee since... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3041d | 289 | How ICANN thinks YOU could get full Whois access With blanket public Whois access now firmly a thing of the past due to GDPR, ICANN has set the ball rolling on an accreditation system that would reopen the data doors to certain select parties. The org yesterday... |
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