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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISC.org | 3068d | 15 | Do DNS Operators Want to Deploy DNS Privacy? The IETF standards community regards the possibility of pervasive monitoring as an attack on the Internet and there is strong consensus among IETF participants that we must protect Internet users privacy. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3069d | 260 | After outcry, ICANNWiki to get ICANN funding next year ICANNWiki will continue to get funding from its namesake, after community members complained about ICANN s plan to abandon its $100,000 annual grant. The independent wiki project will get $66,000 instead in the year... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3069d | 287 | ICANN slashes new gTLD income forecast AGAIN ICANN has yet again been forced to lower its funding expectations from new gTLDs, as the industry continues to face growth challenges. In its latest draft fiscal year 2019 budget, likely to be approved at the end of the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3069d | 324 | Sedo’s cunning GDPR workaround With full Whois records set to disappear from public view for most domain names this Friday, auction house Sedo has had to resort to some technical trickery to enable its users to prove they own the domains they list for... |
| Tony Finch | 3069d | 226 | Beer Festival week hacking notes - Tuesday On Dreamwidth: https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/126764.html |
| PowerDNS Blog | 3070d | 239 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.3 Released This release improves the stability and resiliency of the RPZ implementation, prevents metrics gathering from slowing down the processing of DNS queries and fixes an issue related to the cleaning of EDNS Client Subnet... |
| Tony Finch | 3070d | 233 | Beer Festival week! Hacking notes for Monday On Dreamwidth: https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/126678.html |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3071d | 359 | ICANN board talking GDPR “litigation” ICANN s board of directors is meeting today to discuss its litigation strategy concerning the General Data Protection Regulation, the EU privacy legislation due to make Whois unrecognizable come Friday, Those two words... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3071d | 478 | Failure to launch: 10 years-old gTLDs that are still... Over six years after the last new gTLD application window closed, more than one in 10 new gTLDs have yet to launch, even though some have been delegated for over four years. Once you filter out duplicates, withdrawals... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3071d | 336 | EnCirca partners with PandoraBots to push .bot names to... Specialist registrar EnCirca has partnered with bot development framework vendor PandoraBots to market .bot domains at big brands. The two companies are pushing their wares jointly at this week s International Trademark... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3071d | 433 | Donuts freezes .place gTLD ahead of new geofencing rules Donuts has taken its .place gTLD temporarily off the market as it repurposes the space as a restricted zone for geofencing related uses. That s right, the biggest gTLD portfolio play and historically staunch advocate of... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3074d | 376 | Registrars want six-month stay on new Whois policy Registrars represented the majority of the gTLD industry want ICANN to withhold the ban hammer for six months on its new temporary Whois policy. As I reported earlier today, ICANN has formally approved an unprecedented... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3074d | 405 | Lauded domainer arrested over $2.4 million “extortion” Noted domain investor Sahar Sarid is among four men charged in California yesterday with an alleged extortion scam related to the web site Mugshots.com. He was reportedly arrested in Florida alongside Thomas Keesee,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3074d | 289 | Domainers not welcome in this Whois database Inquiries from domain investors are specifically barred under one registry s take on GDPR compliance. The Austrian ccTLD registry, nic.at, yesterday stopped publishing the personal information of human registrants in its... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3074d | 458 | ICANN approves messy, unfinished Whois policy With a week left on the GDPR compliance clock, ICANN has formally approved a new Whois policy that will hit all gTLD registries and registrars next Friday. The Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3074d | 370 | RFC 8375: Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.' Ce nouveau RFC a l'air compliqué comme cela, mais en fait il ne fait qu'une chose : remplacer, dans le protocole Homenet/HNCP (Home Networking Control Protocol), le nom de domaine ".home" par "home.arpa". |
| ISC.org | 3074d | 13 | Kea 1.4 beta Adds Cassandra Backend We are excited to share our latest Kea release, Kea 1. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3076d | 323 | Three reasons ICANN could swing the GDPR ban hammer on day.. While ICANN reckons it will act reasonably when it comes to enforcing compliance with its incoming GDPR emergency policy, there are some things it simply will not tolerate. The policy expected to be approved tomorrow and... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3076d | 381 | New gTLD registries get $6 million fund ICANN has offered new gTLD registries refunds totaling over $6 million after allegedly double-charging them for access to the Trademark Clearinghouse. At the weekend, its board of directors resolved: to provide a refund... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3076d | 289 | Cute abruptly quits PIR Brian Cute unexpectedly resigned as CEO of Public Interest Registry late last week. No reason was given for his departure. In a May 10 press release, the .org registry said that he d left May 7. He s been replaced... |
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