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3042d207On a POS pole display and an Open Source OS
A few years ago I, almost literally, grabbed a POS (Point of Sale) pole-display out of a box of equipment which was on its way to the dumpster. I have a tiny bit of history with POS systems and thought it’d be cute to...
3042d218After ICANN nod, MMX buys .xxx
MMX has closed the acquisition of porn-focused ICM Registry, after receiving the all-clear from ICANN for the contract transfers. The deal is worth roughly $41 million $10 million cash and about $31 million in stock. ICM...
3042d265Donuts buys back .fan, ignores plural .fans
Donuts has purchased the unlaunched new gTLD .fan from its struggling owner, just three years after selling it. The company said today that .fan will become its 241st TLD in its portfolio, having inked a deal with...
3043d12Kea Google Summer of Code Projects
The Kea team is participating in the Google Summer of Code (GSOC) for the first time.
3047d335Domainers could lose their names as .au loophole closes
Domain investors dabbling in the .au space could face losing their names under new policies set to be proposed. The .au Policy Review Panel, which helps set policy for Australian ccTLD registry auDA, said this week it is...
3047d332In GDPR case, ICANN ready to fight Tucows to the bitter...
ICANN has appealed its recent court defeat as it attempts to force a Tucows subsidiary to carry on collecting full Whois data from customers. The org said yesterday that it has taking its lawsuit against Germany-based...
3048d12Kea 1.4 Adds High-Availability Mode
Kea 1.4 is ready for download and use. This is a big release, with several significant new features.
3053d265Three-letter .net leads as NamesCon charity auction raises..
A domain auction at NamesCon Europe raised €4,150 for charity today. A total of 22 domains were sold, each of which had been donated by a conference attendee. The top sale was bbe.net, which went for €650, followed by...
3054d232Atallah encourages domainers to get involved in ICANN
ICANN Global Domains Division chief Akram Atallah today encouraged domain investors to participate more in the ICANN community. Domain investors voices need to be heard in ICANN, he said during brief remarks opening...
3054d217Aurait-il fallu faire IPv6 « compatible » avec IPv4 ?
Le déploiement du protocole IPv6 continue, mais à un rythme très réduit par rapport à ce qui était prévu et espéré. À cette vitesse, on aura encore de l'IPv4 dans 20 ou 30 ans. Face à cette lenteur exaspérante, on entend...
3055d403US asks if it should take back control over ICANN
The US government has asked the public whether it should reverse its 2016 action to relinquish oversight of the domain name system root. Should the IANA Stewardship Transition be unwound? If yes, why and how? If not, why...
3055d356Version 11 d'Unicode
Aujourd'hui 6 juin, la nouvelle version d'Unicode (http://blog.unicode.org/2018/06/announcing-unicode-standard-version-110.html) est sortie, la 11.0. Une description officielle des principaux changements est disponible...
3056d690Christians rail against GoDaddy’s six-color gay rights...
GoDaddy changed its social media avatars to a gay rights flag yesterday, incurring the wrath of some self-declared Christians and US right-wingers. The change was made in recognition of LGBT Pride Month, in which every...
3057d325Can’t get enough GDPR? Come to my NamesCon panel
NamesCon Europe is being held in Valencia, Spain, this week, the first time the NamesCon branding has been applied to the old Domaining Europe show. Starting Thursday, it s a two-day conference or three if you count the...
3061d250Court denies ICANN’s GDPR injunction against Tucows
A German court has refused ICANN s request for a GDPR-related injunction against Tucows local subsidiary EPAG, throwing a key prong of ICANN s new Whois policy into chaos. EPAG now appears to be free to stop collecting...
3061d61Tweets of May 31 2018
$ kubectl logs uniq-pod-name-across-all-namespaces kubectl: fuck you $ kubectl logs uniq-pod-name-across-all-namespaces -n kube-system kubectl: sure Thu May 31 14:48:38 +0000 2018
3063d303Million-euro Tucows GDPR lawsuit may not be ICANN’s last
ICANN has filed a lawsuit against a Tucows subsidiary in Germany in an effort to resolve a disagreement about how new European privacy law should be interpreted, and according to ICANN s top lawyer it may not be the...
3066d280RFC 8373: Negotiating Human Language in Real-Time...
Le groupe de travail SLIM (https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/slim/about/) de l'IETF s'occupe de définir des mécanismes pour le choix d'une langue lors de la communication. Son premier RFC, le RFC 8255, concernait le...
3067d359How all 33 European ccTLDs are handling GDPR
Happy GDPR Day everyone! Today s the day that the European Union s not-quite-long-enough-awaited General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect, giving registries and registrars the world over the prospect of scary...
3068d223PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.3 Released
We re pleased to announce the availability of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 4.1.3. This is a maintenance release addressing a performance issue in the GeoIP backend and fixes several other issues. The...
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