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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3224d | 251 | New Trump appointee slams ICANN after security group... Not even a month into the job, the US official with most direct responsibility over domain name policy has criticized ICANN for shutting down a security working group. David Redl, the new assistant secretary at the... |
| ISC.org | 3225d | 11 | BIND Release Strategy Updated We are updating our release model for BIND, starting in 2018. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3225d | 258 | Second delay for domain security key rollover ICANN has decided to delay changing the security keys to the DNS for the second time. The KSK Rollover had been rescheduled from October 11 to some time in the first quarter 2018, but that will no longer happen. We re... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3225d | 335 | Justice gives nod to O.com auction The US Department of Justice does not intend to prevent Verisign from auctioning off the single-letter domain o.com. Aaron Hoag, chief of the department s Technology Financial Services Section, told ICANN in a letter... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3225d | 226 | Davies named new IANA boss Kim Davies has been named the new head of IANA. ICANN said today that he s been promoted from his role as director of technical services to VP of IANA services and president of Public Technical Identifiers, the company... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3225d | 406 | Shocker! After 15 years, Afilias kicks Neustar out of... Afilias has been awarded the contract to run .au, Australia s ccTLD, kicking out incumbent Neustar after 15 years. It s currently a 3.1 million-domain contract, meaning it s going to be the largest back-end transition in... |
| Miek Gieben | 3227d | 374 | A k8s LB using ARP A k8s LB using ARP Metallb now supports ARM LBs. This is great, because it allows you to create an working LB in your (shitty) home network with off-the-shelve, cheap, router hardware. Running k8s at home (on ARM),... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 3228d | 255 | PowerDNS Authoritative: Lua Records Hi everyone, We are happy to share a new development with you, one that we hinted at over a year ago: Lua resource records. In this post, we ask for your help: did we get the feature right? Are we missing important... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3230d | 325 | RFC 8259: The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data... Il existe une pléthore de langages pour décrire des données structurées (data-formats.html). JSON, normalisé dans ce RFC (qui succède au RFC 7159, avec peu de changements), est actuellement le plus à la mode. Comme son... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3230d | 249 | .sx switches from KSRegistry to CIRA’s Fury Sint Maarten ccTLD .sx has changed registry back-end providers. SX Registry has switched from Germany s KSRegistry to Canada s CIRA, according to a CIRA press release and IANA records. SX is now using CIRA s relatively... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3230d | 231 | Radix says it’s profitable after making $12 million this... New gTLD stable Radix said today that it expects to top $12 million in revenue this year. The company also told DI that it is currently profitable. Radix, which counts the likes of .site and .store among its portfolio of... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3231d | 243 | Expect “minor inconveniences” in post-hurricane Puerto... ICANN 61 is going ahead in Puerto Rico despite the continuing fallout of a devastating hurricane season, the organization has confirmed. The March 10-15 meeting will take place at the convention center in San Juan, and... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3231d | 224 | .kids auction is off ICANN has postponed the planned auction of the .kid(s) gTLDs after an appeal from one of the applicants. The last-resort auction had been penciled in for January 25, and there was a December 8 deadline for the three... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3231d | 330 | CentralNic now owns .sk after $30m deal closes CentralNic has just closed its acquisition of SK-NIC, the ccTLD operator for Slovakia, the company announced today. The London-based firm announced the deal back in August, when it was to be worth €21.27 million up... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3232d | 287 | As .wed goes EBERO, did the first new gTLD just fail? A wedding-themed gTLD with a Bizarro World business model may become the first commercial gTLD to outright fail. .wed, run by a small US outfit named Atgron, has become the first non-brand gTLD to be placed under ICANN s... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 3232d | 209 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.8 Released Today we announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.8 which contains a fix for the following security advisory: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2017-08: Crafted CNAME answer can cause a denial of service... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3232d | 274 | ICANN: tell us how you will break Whois rules ICANN has invited registrars and registries to formally describe how they plan to break the current rules governing Whois in order to come into compliance with European Union law. The organization today published a set... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3232d | 256 | ICANN punts o.com auction to US watchdogs Verisign s proposed auction of the domain o.com might have a negative effect on competition and is to be referred to US regulators. That s according to ICANN s response to the .com registry s request to release the... |
| NLnet Labs | 3233d | 215 | NSD 4.1.19 released This release fixes IPv6 for the notify sending feature from 4.1.18. |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3234d | 219 | Les dix millénaires oubliés qui ont fait l'histoire Quand on parle de la préhistoire, tout le monde voit ce que c'est : des types vêtus de peaux de bêtes partant chercher du feu ou chassant le mammouth, ou encore inventant plein de choses. Idem pour l'histoire, on a plein... |
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