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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3477d | 314 | .club premium sales approaching $5 million .CLUB Domains sold half a million dollars worth of reserved premium names in the first quarter, bringing its cumulative to-date total to almost $5 million, the registry reported at the weekend. Q1 sales were $505,139,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3477d | 296 | Chinese to invade .africa? CEO thinks so While .africa finally went on sale last week after years of legal fights, it seems Africans may find themselves in the minority of registrants. A combination of awareness, pricing and anticipated interest from Chinese... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3477d | 302 | Companies losing $10 BILLION by ignoring new gTLDs —... The world economy is conservatively losing out on almost $10 billion of annual revenue due to a lack of support for new gTLDs and internationalized domain names, according to an ICANN-commissioned research report. The... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3481d | 446 | .feedback threatens to shut off MarkMonitor Top Level Spectrum, the controversial .feedback gTLD registry, has threatened to de-accredit MarkMonitor unless it apologizes for breaching its registrar contract. The move is evidently retaliation for the... |
| Tony Finch | 3482d | 252 | Moving to Dreamwidth I am in the process of moving this blog to https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/ - follow me there! |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3483d | 305 | Now new gTLDs are being scapegoated for child abuse... The guy responsible for getting the string rape closely restricted for no reason in .uk domain names is now gunning for ICANN and new gTLDs with a very similar playbook. Campaigner John Carr, secretary of the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3484d | 337 | Uniregistry to grandfather existing domains before big... Uniregistry has backtracked on its plan to hike renewal fees on thousands of domain name registrations. CEO Frank Schilling described the U-turn, which followed a ferocious backlash from domain investors, as the right... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3484d | 342 | PIR promotes two senior execs Public Interest Registry has promoted two people in its senior finance team. Marc Saitta, previously chief financial officer, is now chief operating officer, a position that appears to have been empty for a few years.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3484d | 288 | China approves more Donuts, Afilias gTLDs Donuts and Afilias have had two batches of new gTLDs approved for use in China. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology approved five Afilias TLDs and six Donuts TLDs last month. This means customers of... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3487d | 334 | ICANN reveals $500 million gTLD buyback program ICANN is to spend its half-billion dollar auction war chest on a buyback program for failing new gTLDs, DI can reveal. Inspired by the Cash for Clunkers program that provided stimulus during the economic downturn in the... |
| Miek Gieben | 3488d | 66 | Tweets of March 31 2017 #Thimbleweedpark runs (and scales!) nicely on my Linux XPS 13 (HiDPI) machine \o/ Fri Mar 31 06:27:17 +0000 2017 RT @miltonmueller: #RightsCon cannot support US travel restrictions and intrusive border checks so moves to... |
| Tony Finch | 3489d | 275 | A review of Ansible Vault Ansible is the configuration management tool we use at work. It has built-in support for encrypted secrets, called ansible-vault , so you can safely store secrets in version control.
I thought I should review the... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3490d | 272 | Hackathon de l'IETF Bon, les hackathons, c'est un sujet banal, la majorité (la totalité ?) de mes lect·eur·rice·s ont déjà participé à un hackathon mais, pour moi, c'était la première fois. Donc, en mode « Stéphane découvre les hackathons... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3490d | 307 | RFC 8073: Coordinating Attack Response at Internet Scale... Ce nouveau RFC fait le bilan de l'atelier CARIS (https://www.iab.org/activities/workshops/caris/) (Coordinating Attack Response at Internet Scale) qui s'est tenu à Berlin le 18 juin 2015. Cet atelier avait pour but... |
| Tony Finch | 3492d | 270 | Better terminology Because I just needed to remind myself of this, here are a couple of links with suggestions foe less accidentally-racist computing terminology:
Firstly, Kerri Miller suggests blocklist / safelist for naming deny /... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3492d | 298 | Developing a monitoring plugin for DNS-over-TLS at the... The week-end of 25-26 march 2017, I participated to the IETF 98 (https://www.ietf.org/meeting/98/index.html) hackathon in Chicago. The project was to develop a monitoring plugin (https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/) for... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3495d | 334 | New gTLD registries want a $17 million ICANN rebate Many gTLDs are performing more poorly than expected and their registries want some money back from ICANN to compensate. The Registries Stakeholder Group this week asked ICANN for a 75% credit on their quarterly fees,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3495d | 294 | Hacker hostage crisis at ICANN secret key ceremony! (on... One of ICANN s Seven Secret Key-Holders To The Internet got taken out as part of an elaborate heist or something on American TV this week. In tense scenes, a couple of secret agents or something with guns were forced to... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3495d | 317 | DENIC approved as ICANN escrow agent German ccTLD registry DENIC has been given ICANN approval to provide data escrow services to registrars. It becomes the seventh company to receive this accreditation, the second in Europe after the UK s NCC Group. The... |
| NLnet Labs | 3496d | 243 | Net::DNS 1.09 released Structured EDNS0 options |
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