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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3359d | 256 | Gay.com, “worth $7 million”, donated to gay blog The domain name gay.com has reportedly been donated for free to a gay rights group despite claims it is worth $6.9 million. The Los Angeles LGBT Center said late last week that it is to take ownership of the domain,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3359d | 241 | Grumpy campaign claims victory after auDA U-turns Australian ccTLD administrator auDA has scrapped two unpopular policies following the ouster of its chairman last week, allowing campaigning domainers to claim victory. auDA said it has done away with its member code of... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3363d | 270 | Iran rep reported to ICANN Ombudsman, again Iran s Governmental Advisory Committee representative has found himself reported to ICANN s Ombudsman for alleged bad behavior for the second time in just a few months. Outspoken GACer Kavouss Arasteh was referred to... |
| ISC.org | 3363d | 21 | BIND 9 Performance History ISC Performance Lab We have been monitoring BIND 9 performance using the ISC Performance Lab, described in this 2016 blog post. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3366d | 222 | .storage to have pricey second sunrise The .storage gTLD is to get a second sunrise period after being acquired and repurposed by XYZ.com. The registry will operate a Trademark Landrush Period for three weeks from November 7 as the first stage of .storage s... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3366d | 225 | HTC dumps its dot-brand Mobile phone manufacturer HTC has become the latest dot-brand operator to get out of the new gTLD game. The $4.3 billion-a-year Taiwanese firm has told ICANN that it no longer wishes to run .htc as a dot-brand registry... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3366d | 233 | Halloran made ICANN’s first chief data protection officer ICANN lifer Dan Halloran has added the title of chief data protection officer to his business card. The long-serving deputy general counsel was named ICANN s first CDPO on Friday, continuing to report to his current... |
| Miek Gieben | 3366d | 66 | Tweets of July 31 2017 RT @MitchBenn: 1. Brexiteers: your BEST prediction now is that the UK will recover economically from Brexit within *30 years*. In other wor… Mon Jul 31 06:28:55 +0000 2017 |
| ISC.org | 3366d | 19 | ISC DHCP 4.3.6 and 4.1-ESV-R15 Posted ISC DHCP Updated Updates to both supported branches of ISC DHCP are available now from our downloads page. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3369d | 317 | Verisign confirms first price increase under new .net... Verisign is to increase the wholesale price of an annual .net domain registration by 10%, the company confirmed yesterday. It s the first in an expected series of six annual 10% price hikes permitted under its recently... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3369d | 231 | EFF recommends against new gTLDs The Electronic Frontier Foundation has recommended that domain registrants concerned about intellectual property bullies steer clear of new gTLDs. The view is expressed in a new EFF report today that is particularly... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3369d | 245 | auDA chair quits days before vote to fire him The chair of .au registry auDA has quit the job just three days before members were due to vote on a motion to fire him. Stuart Benjamin, who took on the role in late 2015, faced a special member meeting on Monday that... |
| ISC.org | 3369d | 14 | BIND 9.11.2, 9.10.6 & 9.9.11 Maintenance Versions Posted New maintenance versions of each of our supported branches are available from our downloads page. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3370d | 282 | Crocker: no date on next new gTLD round ICANN will NOT set a date for the next round of new gTLD applications, despite recent pleas from registry operators. That s according to a letter (pdf) from ICANN chair Steve Crocker to the Registries Stakeholder Group... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3370d | 254 | Donuts to complete Rightside acquisition tonight Donuts is on the verge of closing its acquisition of coopetitor Rightside, after the vast majority of Rightside shareholders agreed to sell up. Rightside just disclosed that owners of 92% of its shares 17,740,054 shares... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3370d | 236 | MMX says .vip renewals running at 75% MMX has revealed that its renewal rate for first-month .vip registrations in China were over 75%. The portfolio gTLD registry, also known as Minds + Machines, said that 317,000 domains that were registered during .vip s... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3371d | 257 | auDA now looking to outsource .au registry Australian ccTLD overseer auDA appears to have softened its approach to overhauling the management of .au. The organization said today that it s now planning to look for an outsourced registry operation that will come... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3371d | 235 | .blog tops 100,000 names, 66,500 blogs The new gTLD .blog has gone through the 100,000 registered domain mark, according to its registry. Knock Knock Whois There said that the milestone was reached with the registration of kitchenmagic.blog today. It s a... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3371d | 238 | RFC 8198: Aggressive Use of DNSSEC-Validated Cache Lorqu'un client DNS interroge un résolveur, celui-ci peut répondre très vite si l'information demandée est dans sa mémoire (son « cache ») mais cela peut être beaucoup plus lent s'il faut aller demander aux serveurs... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3372d | 270 | Attendance dips for ICANN in Johannesburg The number of people showing up for ICANN s latest meeting was down compared to previous meetings, just-released statistics show. The organization reported today that there were 1,353 attendees at the ICANN 59 meeting in... |
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