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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3236d | 223 | Numeric .xyz names plummet despite dollar deal XYZ.com s effort to sell over a billion numeric .xyz domains at just $0.65 each does not appear to be gaining traction. The number of qualifying domains in the .xyz zone file has plummeted by almost 200,000 since the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3236d | 280 | DotKids doesn’t want .kids auction to go ahead One of the applicants for the .kids gTLD has asked ICANN to stop the planned last-resort auction. DotKids Foundation is competing with Amazon for .kids and, because the two strings were ruled confusingly similar, with... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3236d | 301 | Open Whois must die, Europe privacy chiefs tell ICANN Unfettered public access to full Whois records is illegal and has to got to go, an influential European Union advisory body has told ICANN. The Article 29 Working Party on Data Protection, WP29, wrote to ICANN yesterday... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3238d | 228 | RFC 8270: Increase the Secure Shell Minimum Recommended... Un RFC de moins de quatre pages, boilerplate administratif inclus, pour passer la taille minimum des modules des groupes Diffie-Hellman utilisés par SSH, de 1 024 bits à 2 048. |
| ISC.org | 3238d | 13 | Planning for Kea 1.4 Since we posted Kea 1.3, the team has been hard at work on plans for Kea 1. |
| NLnet Labs | 3238d | 238 | DNSSEC trigger 0.15 This release fixes failure to start on OSX and Windows. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3238d | 262 | InternetNZ loses two of its three CEOs as it simplifies InternetNZ has announced the results of a consultation into a restructuring of the organization. The .nz ccTLD manager is to cut one of its three operating companies and reduce the number of CEOs from three to one. NZRS,... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3239d | 223 | RFC 8273: Unique IPv6 Prefix Per Host Ce court RFC explique comment (et pourquoi) attribuer un préfixe IPv6 unique à chaque machine, même quand le média réseau où elle est connectée est partagé avec d'autres machines. |
| PowerDNS Blog | 3239d | 246 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.1 This is a major release containing significant speedups (both in throughput and latency), enhanced capabilities and a highly conformant and robust DNSSEC validation implementation that is ready for heavy production use.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3239d | 248 | Neustar ditches .biz for .neustar Registry operator Neustar has migrated all of its web sites to its .neustar gTLD, abandoning its original home at .biz. The company announced today that its main site can now be found at home.neustar. Its old neustar.biz... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3239d | 222 | Roberts elected to ICANN board Channel Islands ccTLD operator Nigel Roberts has been elected to ICANN s board of directors. He gathered an impressive 67% of the votes in an anonymous poll of ccNSO members conducted last week. He received 60 votes... |
| Miek Gieben | 3241d | 252 | Debian Package For Coredns 1.0.0 With the deployment repo you can easily make your own Debian packages for CoreDNS; i.e. make debian should create packages for amd64, arm64 and armhf. It just did that for our 1.0.0 release and you can download them... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3242d | 191 | Conserver sa clé avec Let's Encrypt, certbot et dehydrated Beaucoup de gens utilisent désormais l'AC Let's Encrypt. Ce n'est pas la première autorité de certification qui permet d'avoir un certificat en faisant tout en ligne, ni la première gratuite, mais elle est néanmoins très... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3242d | 231 | Brazil loses its only registrar as UOL bows out There are now no ICANN-accredited registrars in Brazil, following the termination of Universo Online s contract this week. I understand the agreement was ended at UOL s request. It s not a case of it breaching its... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3242d | 240 | Verisign wants to auction off O.com for charity The internet could soon gets just its fourth active single-character .com domain name, after Verisign revealed plans to auction off o.com for charity. The company has asked ICANN to allow it to release just one of the 23... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 3243d | 338 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1 Version 4.1 is a major upgrade for the Authoritative Server, delivering improvements and speedups developed and tested over the past 12 months. Many large scale deployments have already migrated to this release because... |
| Miek Gieben | 3244d | 64 | Tweets of November 30 2017 I m in Zone 3. Which is another way of saying: I m lost Thu Nov 30 17:15:28 +0000 2017 Replying to @abiosoft Still useless though. Unless you install Linux Thu Nov 30 17:17:06 +0000 2017 Replying to @abiosoft What!... |
| NLnet Labs | 3244d | 179 | NSD 4.1.18 released This release has features for saving memory and faster notification. With --enable-packed, 33% memory savings could be had, or something along that size. Notification of secondary servers happens in parallel, and has... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3244d | 283 | ICANN urged to crack down on new gTLD abuse Registries selling dirt-cheap new gTLD domains should be rewarded with lower ICANN fees when they get proactive about abuse, while registrars that turn a blind eye to spammers should be suspended, an ICANN working group... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3246d | 267 | Choisir son résolveur DNS, pas si facile Le 26 novembre 2017, à la Cité des Sciences à Paris, j'ai fait un exposé lors de l'Ubuntu Party (https://www.ubuntu-paris.org/) sur la question des critères de choix d'un bon résolveur DNS. Les supports de cet exposé... |
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