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3329d354My restic backend of choice: minio
I was telling you about restic the other day, and I demonstrated using its rest-server for storage. I had shortly looked at minio , but Alexander mentioned a few possibilities I’d overlooked, so here goes. Minio is an...
3329d235Hammock swings from Rightside to MarkMonitor
Statton Hammock has joined brand protection registrar MarkMonitor as its new vice president of global policy and industry development. He was most recently VP of business and legal affairs at Rightside, the portfolio...
3330d266Registry bosses to talk ICANN “tax cuts” at private...
The CEOs of 20 or more gTLD registries are due to meet privately this month to discuss, among other things, the possibility of a reduction in their ICANN fees. The Registry CEO Summit is being held in Seattle at the end...
3330d227Another auDA director quit in secret
Australian ccTLD registry auDA, in the midst of a transparency controversy, reportedly lost another of its directors last month. According to a report in Australia s Financial Review newspaper, Leonie Walsh stepped down...
3330d1862017 IJsland
3330d215.CLUB nears profitability, talks renewals and “trial”...
.CLUB Domains is nearing profitability and poised to become a growth engine , despite the view that most of its current domains are not expected to renew, according to its CEO. Colin Campbell told DI today that the...
3331d230Deutsch and Doria to join ICANN board
Veteran ICANN community members Avri Doria and Sarah Deutsch are to join ICANN s board of directors in November. Both have been selected by ICANN s Nominating Committee to serve three-year terms starting at the end of...
3331d251Annonces BGP plus spécifiques : bien ou mal ?
L'article de Geoff Huston « BGP More Specifics: Routing Vandalism or Useful? (https://blog.apnic.net/2017/06/26/bgp-specifics-routing-vandalism-useful/) » aborde une question qui a toujours déclenché de chaudes...
3333d214Afnic appoints Pierre Bonis new CEO
French ccTLD registry Afnic has named Pierre Bonis its new CEO. Bonis officially started his new job today, but he s been in the role on an interim basis since May 1, when he replaced Mathieu Weill. Weill had abruptly...
3334d213After slow launch, .africa looks to add hundreds of...
ZA Central Registry is opening up .africa and its South African city gTLDs to potentially hundreds of new registrars via a new proxy program. The company today announced that it new registrar AF Proxy Services has...
3334d209RFC 8216: HTTP Live Streaming
Ce RFC décrit la version 7 du protocole HTTP Live Streaming, qui permet de distribuer des flux multimédia, typiquement de la vidéo.
3334d184Observations about the attack on WikiLeaks
On 30 august, this year, a technical attack was performed against WikiLeaks, leading some visitors of WikiLeaks' Web site to see instead a claim by "OurMine" that they seized control of WikiLeaks' servers. A lot of...
3335d262No $17 million rebate for struggling new gTLDs
ICANN has turned down a request for about $17 million to be refunded to under-performing new gTLD registries. The organization cannot spare the cash from its $96 million new gTLD program war chest because it does not yet...
3335d230MMX: three gTLDs approved for sale in Beijing
Three foreign new gTLDs have been approved for sale and resolution in Chinese capital Beijing, according to MMX. The portfolio registry said today that its .vip is among the first to receive approval from the Beijing...
3335d208PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 1...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 RC1 is here! This release marks The Return of the LDAP Backend. Also recursion has been removed from the authoritative server (see #4752 below) and a CryptoKey API endpoint is now...
3335d240.museum soon could be open to all (no haters please)
The 15-year-old .museum gTLD could soon be open to a great many more potential registrants, following an ICANN contract renewal. The registry, MuseDoma, has negotiated a new Registry Agreement that rewrites eligibility...
3335d227RFC 6844: DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA)...
Ce RFC a quelques années mais n'avait connu que peu de déploiement effectif. Cela va peut-être changer à partir du 8 septembre 2017, où les AC ont promis de commencer à vérifier les enregistrements CAA (Certification...
3335d61Tweets of August 31 2017
Shut up and take my money! https://twitter.com/brickset/status/903321791292203008 Thu Aug 31 19:34:58 +0000 2017
3335d228CentralNic promises $30 million .sk will only ever mean...
CentralNic has committed that it will not repurpose Slovakian ccTLD .sk to mean anything other than Slovakia , following its purchase of SK-NIC this week. The acquisition of the Bratislava-based registry, which will cost...
3336d244Former MarkMonitor execs join new brand protection...
Two former MarkMonitor executives have teamed up with a Fairwinds co-founder to launch a new next generation brand protection registrar. The new company is Brandsight. It was set up by CEO Phil Lodico, who left brand...
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