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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3076d | 366 | No, I don’t get what’s going on with GDPR either GDPR comes into effect next week, changing the Whois privacy landscape forever, and like many others I still haven t got a clue what s going on. ICANN s still muddling through a temporary Whois spec that it hopes will... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3078d | 247 | Whois working group imploding in GDPR’s wake An ICANN working group devoted to Whois policy is looking increasingly dead after being trumped by incoming European Union privacy law. Registration Data Services PDP working group chair Chuck Gomes threw in the towel... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3078d | 304 | Have your say on single-character .com domains ICANN wants your opinion on its plan to allow Verisign to auction off o.com, with a potential impact on the future release of other single-character .com domain names. The organization has published a proposed amendment... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3078d | 260 | NamesCon dumps the Trop, eyeing beaches for 2020 GoDaddy-owned annual domain industry conference NamesCon has decided to ditch Las Vegas after its 2019 event. The show is now looking for ideas for a new location close to a beach, according to a post on its web site.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3078d | 238 | CentralNic now managing failing .fan and .fans CentralNic appears to be acting as a caretaker for the failing new gTLDs .fan and .fans. IANA records show that a company lawyer took over as administrative contact for the pair late last week. Asiamix Digital, the... |
| Tony Finch | 3081d | 236 | More on web server smoke tests On Dreamwidth: https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/126334.html |
| Tony Finch | 3083d | 218 | How to test a web server before pointing the DNS at it On Dreamwidth: https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/126057.html |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3084d | 271 | CIRA has a record year for regs Canadian ccTLD registry CIRA says its fiscal 2018 was its best year yet for new .ca registrations. The company today said it registered 537,941 names in the year to the end of March. Its previous record, from its FY12,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3084d | 318 | MMX rejected three takeover bids before buying .xxx MMX talked to three other domain name companies about potentially selling itself before deciding instead to go on the offensive, picking up ICM Registry for about $41 million. The company came out of a year-long... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 3084d | 278 | Authoritative server 4.1.2 released This is the third release in the 4.1 train. Besides bug fixes, it contains some performance and usability improvements. Please find the most important changes below. For full details, visit the changelog. Improvements... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3084d | 261 | ICANN flips off governments over Whois privacy ICANN has formally extended its middle finger to its Governmental Advisory Committee for only the third time, telling the GAC that it cannot comply with its advice on Whois privacy. It s triggered a clause in its bylaws... |
| ISC.org | 3088d | 13 | ISC and Your Personal Data This text was updated on 15 November 2021. Please click here to read our full, up-to-date privacy policy. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3090d | 391 | 101domain founders suing Afilias over unpaid $1 million... The two former owners of 101domain are suing Afilias over an unpaid $1 million portion of their $15.5 million acquisition deal. And Afilias is suing them right back, claiming it doesn t have to pay because the deal left... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3090d | 248 | MMX could announce acquisition this week New gTLD registry MMX could announce plans to be acquired as early as this week. The company told the markets last week that its delayed 2017 financial results would be announced in early May , along with the conclusion... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3091d | 286 | Google’s .app gTLD beats .porn to biggest sunrise yet The sunrise period for Google Registry s .app gTLD closed today and it looks like it might be the biggest sunrise of the 2012 round to date. .app had 3,068 domains in its zone file this morning. While not all will be... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3091d | 242 | RFC 8374: BGPsec Design Choices and Summary of Supporting... Ce RFC est un peu spécial : il ne normalise pas un protocole, ni des procédures internes à l'IETF, et il n'est pas non plus la description d'un problème à résoudre, ou un cahier des charges d'une solution à développer.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3092d | 265 | Van Gelder remembered in GNSO resolution Former GNSO Council chair Stéphane Van Gelder, who died last month, has been remembered in a motion passed by the Council on Friday. The motion noted that Van Gelder was a well-respected and much liked member of the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3092d | 327 | $55 billion bank not paying its $6,250 ICANN fees Kuwait Finance House has become the latest new gTLD registry to get slapped with an ICANN breach notice for not paying its quarterly fees. The company is a 40-year-old, Sharia-compliant Kuwaiti bank managing assets of... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3092d | 263 | ICANN cancels registrar audit as GDPR headaches loom ICANN has decided to call off a scheduled audit of its registrar base, to enable registrars to focus on sorting out compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation. The biannual audit, carried out by ICANN... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3092d | 358 | Iceland breaks ranks on Whois, will publish emails Iceland s ccTLD has become what I believe is the first registry to state that it will continue to publish email addresses in public Whois records after the General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect. The move... |
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