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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3092d | 249 | auDA wins brief reprieve from boardroom battle Australian ccTLD registry auDA has managed get a small delay, smaller than it wanted, to the deadline for a special member meeting at which the fate of its chair, CEO and two directors will be decided. After more than 5%... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3092d | 256 | .com adds 5.5 million names, renewals back over 70% Verisign reported first-quarter financial results that reflected a healthier .com namespace following the spike caused by Chinese speculation in 2016. The company Friday reported that .com was up to 133.9 million domains... |
| Miek Gieben | 3092d | 66 | Tweets of April 30 2018 Looking at Derek. This puts me off a bit: https://github.com/alexellis/derek/blob/master/GET.md Read on if you want to setup your own cluster, OpenFaaS and a private GitHub App. (est. setup time several hours) This is... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3097d | 241 | A Fediverse/Mastodon bot for DNS queries I created a bot to answer DNS queries over the fediverse (decentralized social network, best known implementation being Mastodon). What for? Well, mostly for the fun, a bit to learn about Mastodon bots, and a bit... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3099d | 281 | Muslim world still thinks .islam isn’t kosher The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has repeated its objection to the gTLDs .islam and .halal ever seeing the light of day. OIC Secretary General Yousef Al-Othaimeen wrote to ICANN earlier this month to declare that... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3099d | 240 | Drop-catcher drops almost all remaining registrars Drop-catch specialist Pheenix has terminated almost all of its remaining registrar accreditations, leaving it with just its core registrar. By my count, 50 shell registrars have terminated their ICANN contracts over the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3099d | 253 | Another failing new gTLD stopped paying its dues Another new gTLD registry has been slapped with an ICANN breach notice after failing to pay its fees. California-based dotCOOL, which runs .qpon, seems to be at least six months late in making its $6,250 quarterly... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3099d | 244 | ICANN found a zero-day hole in Adobe Connect It s looking like ICANN may have found a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Connect, until recently its default collaboration tool. The organization on Friday announced the results of a forensic investigation into the bug,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3099d | 285 | Nominet to charge brands for no-name Whois access Nominet has become the second major registry to announce that trademark lawyers will have to pay for Whois after the EU General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect next month. The company said late last week... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3099d | 256 | auDA may sue to delay boardroom bloodbath auDA is thinking about taking its membership to court in order to delay a vote on the jobs of four of its directors. The Australian ccTLD registry has also delayed further consideration of its policy to introduce direct,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3104d | 273 | I just bought a new gTLD registry’s domain for $10 Are .fan and .fans the latest new gTLDs to go out of business? It certainly looks that way. ICANN has hit the registry with a breach notice for unpaid dues and stripped it of its registrar accreditation. In addition, its... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3104d | 257 | Child abuse becoming big problem for new gTLDs There were 3,791 domain names used to host child sexual abuse imagery in 2017, up 57%, according to the latest annual report from the Internet Watch Foundation. While .com was the by far the worst TLD for such material... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3104d | 241 | Government gives auDA reform-or-die ultimatum auDA has just months to either implement sweeping reforms or risk being dissolved and replaced. That s the outcome of a review of the Australian ccTLD administrator by the Department of Communications and Arts, published... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3106d | 252 | Leaked memo alleges lavish travel spending at auDA A report into .au registry auDA s historical travel expenses has leaked to the Australian media, the latest apparent salvo in the organization s increasingly personal civil war. The Sydney Morning Herald this evening... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3106d | 252 | dotFM offers $1.1 million stash of emoji domains BRS Media has started selling emoji domain names in its .fm ccTLD, and some of the more commonly used ones are quite pricey. While a vanilla emoji will go for the standard .fm price of $95.95 a year when bought from... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3106d | 248 | Bling-maker kills off fifth dot-brand gTLD Richemont, the company behind brands such as Cartier jewelry and Mont Blanc pens, has terminated its fifth dot-brand gTLD. It filed with ICANN to terminate its registry contract for .iwc earlier this month. IWC is a... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3106d | 251 | Now GNSO mulls emergency response to GDPR deadline ICANN s GNSO Council is thinking about deploying a never-before-used emergency mechanism to develop a Whois privacy policy in response to GDPR. With the May 25 deadline for compliance with the EU s General Data... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3106d | 234 | RFC 5001: DNS Name Server Identifier Option (NSID) Cette nouvelle option du DNS permet d'identifier le serveur de noms physique auquel on parle, dans le cas où plusieurs machines servent sous la même adresse IP. Elle a vocation à remplacer l'ancien "hostname.bind". |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3108d | 264 | auDA refers former directors to police Imploding Australian ccTLD registry auDA has ratted out several of its former directors to the local cops, it was revealed this week. In a message to its community to mark Chris Leptos 150th day as chair of the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3108d | 254 | CoCCA to charge trademark owners for Whois access CoCCA has become the first domain registry to publicly announce that it will charge trademark owners for access to Whois records. The company said it plans to release an updated version of its software and registry... |
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