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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISC.org | 3134d | 12 | Kea and NETCONF in 2018: Towards Automated Configurability ISC has a long history of participating in hackathons, starting a long time ago at Gdansk University, and continuing with IETF Hackathons. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3134d | 251 | Now Latvia guts Whois to comply with GDPR Latvia has become the latest country to announce plans to cut back on Whois provision to comply with incoming European Union privacy law. Its .lv ccTLD is the first I m aware of to announce that it plans to cut back on... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3134d | 322 | A lazy blogger’s wish-list for ICANN remote participation Remote participation at ICANN meetings is pretty damn good, but I m an ungrateful asshole and I want more. I ve had a personal wish-list of remote participation features during and immediately after every ICANN meeting... |
| Miek Gieben | 3134d | 281 | IETF 101 DNS Hackathon Results The IETF 101 hackathon has come and gone. I wanted to write up the results of this. See my original plan for the hackathon. Implement DOH (DNS over HTTPs). Go DNS already implements DNS over TLS, so this shouldn t be too... |
| ISC.org | 3135d | 12 | End to Bandaids for Broken EDNS Extension mechanisms for DNS were standardized in 2013 Despite this, there continue to be non-compliant implementations. |
| Tony Finch | 3135d | 215 | IETF 101 Hackathon, day 2 On Dreamwidth: https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/123738.html |
| Tony Finch | 3136d | 193 | IETF 101 Hackathon, day 1 On Dreamwidth: https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/123507.html |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3138d | 249 | Portugal joins the million-domain club Portuguese ccTLD .pt passed one million registrations for the first time earlier this month, DNS.pt said this week. The millionth name was meckos.pt, registered by a local textile machinery company of that name, the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3138d | 282 | Austria to stop publishing most Whois data Austrian ccTLD operator nic.at will no longer publish any Whois information for individual registrants, in order to comply with incoming EU privacy law. Natural persons data will no longer be published from mid-May 2018,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3138d | 268 | Data leak security glitch screws up ICANN 61 for thousands A security vulnerability forced ICANN to take down its Adobe Connect conferencing service halfway through its ICANN 61 meeting in Puerto Rico. The potentially serious security issue could could possibly lead to the... |
| NLnet Labs | 3139d | 303 | Unbound 1.7.0 released Unbound 1.7.0 adds authority zones, for a local copy of the root zone, and also aggressive NSEC processing, for denial of nxdomain floods. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3139d | 242 | CentralNic and KeyDrive in merger talks CentralNic and KeyDrive, two major European domain firms, are in merger talks, CentralNic confirmed this morning. CentralNic said that the transaction, should it close, would be a reverse takeover of itself by KeyDrive.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3140d | 272 | After long fight, Donuts adds .charity to its gTLD stable Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, Donuts has prevailed in the two-horse race for the .charity gTLD. The company appears to have privately resolved its contention set, paying off rival bidder Famous Four Media,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3140d | 287 | Lawyer: GoDaddy Whois changes a “critical” contract breach GoDaddy is in violation of its ICANN registrar contract by throttling access to its Whois database, according to a leading industry lawyer. Brian Winterfeldt of the Winterfeldt IP Group has written to ICANN to demand its... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3140d | 328 | Now South Africa looks to second-level domain sales South Africa looks to be the next country to start letting people register domains directly at the second level of its ccTLD. Local registry authority ZADNA this week opened a policy consultation on allowing registrants... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3140d | 298 | Next new gTLD round unlikely before 2022 ICANN is unlikely to accept any more new gTLD applications until a full decade has passed since the last round was open. That s the conclusion of some ICANN community members working on rules for the next round. Speaking... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3141d | 292 | RFC 8358: Update to Digital Signatures on Internet-Draft... Les Internet-Drafts sont signés suivant les règles du RFC 5485, afin qu'une lectrice ou un lecteur puissent vérifier qu'un Internet-Draft n'a pas été modifié en cours de route. Ce nouveau RFC modifie légèrement le RFC... |
| ISC.org | 3141d | 11 | 2018 BIND and DNS Training Schedule The 1H 2018 Schedule for DNS and BIND classes is posted. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3142d | 832 | Donuts scraps 200 companies, consolidates under Binky Moon Donuts has consolidated all of its original portfolio of new gTLD contracts under a single LLC, scrapping almost 200 shell companies in the process. At least 196 contracts, each of which were originally allocated to a... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3142d | 303 | ICANNWiki fans protest funding cut ICANN should continue to fund the independent ICANNWiki project, according to high-profile industry supporters. As I first reported back in December, ICANN plans to stop giving a $100,000 annual grant to ICANNWiki, a... |
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