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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan-Piet Mens | 3183d | 247 | Discovering Mattermost After three (or was it almost four?) years of using Slack, we took the plunge and set up our own instance of Mattermost . The reasons for doing this include wanting more control over our data and wanting an unlimited... |
| NLnet Labs | 3183d | 951 | The peculiar case of NSEC processing using expanded... Unbound, Google public DNS, PowerDNS and Dnsmasq contained a flaw that made it possible to downgrade secure connections. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3183d | 251 | Is the Trump administration really trying to reverse the... Questions have been raised about the US government s commitment to an independent ICANN, following the release of letters sent by two top Trump appointees. In the letters, new NTIA head David Redl and Secretary of... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3183d | 242 | MMX profitable as acquisition talks drag on New gTLD registry Minds + Machines became profitable as an operating company for the first time in 2017, the company announced on Friday. MMX saw billings of $10 million in the second half of the year, compared to $5.6... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3186d | 535 | RFC 2818: HTTP Over TLS C'est un RFC très ancien que ce RFC 2818, et qui décrit une technologie qui ne s'est pourtant imposée presque partout que récemment, HTTPS (HTTP sur TLS). Le RFC n'a pas été remplacé depuis sa publication en… 2000, même... |
| ISC.org | 3188d | 10 | Kea - UNH Interoperability Lab Case Study Why should you use Kea DHCP? Please read our case study of UNH s Interoperability Lab to find out why one organization relies on Kea for its DHCP needs. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3188d | 345 | Donuts releases free TLD-neutral name-spinner Donuts has announced the release of a free name-spinner tool for registrars and resellers. Relevant Name Search, found at rns.domains, isn t a destination site in itself, but will be free for registrars to integrate into... |
| NLnet Labs | 3189d | 508 | Bringing DNS Security and Privacy to the End User How the getdns API project helps to achieve the goal of DNSSEC validation and DANE authentication at the end-points. |
| ISC.org | 3190d | 16 | BIND 9.12.0 Released BIND 9.12 is out! Download We had to hold onto this over the recent holiday period, while we were waiting for a window to publish a reported vulnerability and circulate patched versions. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3190d | 354 | New gTLD revenue cut by HALF in ICANN budget The new gTLD industry is performing terribly when compared to ICANN s predictions just six months ago. ICANN budget documents published over the weekend show that by one measure new gTLDs are doing just 51% of the... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 3190d | 332 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.1 This is the second release in the 4.1 train with a fix for the following DNSSEC security advisory: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2018-01: Correctly handle ancestor delegation NSEC{,3} for children (CVE-2018-1000003) Note... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3190d | 350 | ICANN slashes millions from its budget ICANN has cut $5 million from its annual budget, warning the community that difficult decisions have to be made amid a slowing domain name market. Staff and community members will all be affected by the cuts, whether in... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3190d | 327 | Research finds homograph attacks on big brands rife Apparent domain name homograph attacks against major brands are a significant problem, according to research from Farsight Security. The company said last week that it scanned for such attacks against 125 well-known... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3190d | 334 | DomainTools scraps apps and APIs in war on spam DomainTools is to scrap at least five of its services as it tries to crack down spam. It s getting rids of its mobile apps, its APIs, and is to stop showing registrants personal information to unauthenticated users. CEO... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3193d | 403 | Les spammeurs ne sont même pas compétents en standards du... Comme vous, je reçois du spam via le courrier électronique. J'en reçois peut-être davantage car mon adresse publiée sur ce blog a manifestement été mise sur des listes d'« influenceurs » et autres blogueurs mode. Ces... |
| NLnet Labs | 3194d | 280 | Unbound 1.6.8 released Unbound 1.6.8 fixes CVE-2017-15105: vulnerability in the processing of wildcard synthesized NSEC records. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3194d | 328 | A new gTLD kills itself off for the second time British pharmacy chain Boots has applied to ICANN to terminate its dot-brand contract for the second time. The company asked for its .boots Registry Agreement, signed in 2015, to be ended in December and ICANN opened the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3195d | 345 | ICANN blocks two million domains, including some... At least two million domain names have been essentially blocked across all gTLDs under a new ICANN policy. The block includes many potential valuable three and four-letter strings. The long-discussed, highly... |
| ISC.org | 3197d | 15 | The Performance Effects of Meltdown Bug Mitigation on BIND.. The recently announced Meltdown bug is a serious vulnerability in Intel CPUs that allows malicious programs to indirectly read information held within the kernel of the operating system via a cache-timing side channel... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3197d | 328 | Three ways ICANN could gut Whois ICANN has published three possible models of how Whois could be altered beyond recognition after European privacy law kicks in this May. Under each model, casual Whois users would no longer have access to the wealth of... |
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