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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3555d | 326 | Rightside sells eNom to Tucows for $83.5m Tucows is to become the second largest registrar in the world by acquiring eNom from Rightside, paying $83.5 million. The deal will give Tucows another 14.5 million domains under management and 28,000 resellers, giving... |
| Miek Gieben | 3557d | 314 | Train Station MOC I m building a LEGO train station, and I m trying out different designs. In the end the main building will look something like this LEGO ideas project, but currently I m test-building the platform section (which is also... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3559d | 371 | The biggest dot-brand in the world has 50,000 domains, but.. The biggest dot-brand gTLD active today has about 50,000 domains under management, but the vast majority of them may not be compliant with ICANN rules. Real Estate Domains LLC runs .realtor in partnership with the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3559d | 311 | .radio set for November launch, weird tiered pricing The European Broadcasting Union plans to operate the forthcoming .radio gTLD in such a way as to discourage domain investors. It yesterday set out its launch timetable, registration restrictions, and expects registrars... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3559d | 331 | Trump nominee open to retaking ICANN oversight role The incoming head of the US Department of Commerce has indicated that it is unlikely he ll try to reestablish the US government s unique oversight of ICANN, at least in the short term. But at his confirmation hearing in... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3561d | 312 | RFC 8056: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) and... Deux protocoles utilisés dans l'industrie des noms de domaine, EPP et RDAP, ont la notion d'état d'un nom de domaine, indiquant, par exemple, que ce nom est verrouillé et ne doit pas être modifié. Mais les états de EPP... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3561d | 365 | NamesCon picks if you’re not a domainer I m not going to NamesCon this year. Scheduling conflicts, personal life, blah blah blah. You don t need to know. It s a shame, as I ve enjoyed the show in previous years and there s usually plenty to be learned even if,... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 3561d | 307 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.3 released! Today we ve released version 4.0.3 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. This release fixes an issue when using multiple backends, where one of the backends is the BIND backend. This regression was introduced in version... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3561d | 340 | .com-dominated NamesCon auction already has one... There s still about week to go until this year s NamesCon conference kicks off in Las Vegas, but the live auction that will close the first day of the show has already seen pre-bidding action. One batch of domains has... |
| NLnet Labs | 3562d | 360 | getdns 1.0.0 released First spec complete implementation of getdns |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3564d | 299 | Utiliser un résolveur DNS public ? Après la censure administrative en France via des DNS menteurs (censure-francaise.html), puis une panne spectaculaire des résolveurs DNS d'Orange (resolveur-dns-en-panne.html), au moins trois pannes analogues de ceux de... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 3565d | 458 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4.11 and Recursor 3.7.4... Today, we are releasing version 3.4.11 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server and version 3.7.4 of the PowerDNS Recursor. These releases fix several security issues that were reported to PowerDNS. It concerns the following... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 3565d | 362 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.4 released! We are happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor version 4.0.4. This release fixes 2 security issues and adds several improvements to the DNSSEC validation code. The following PowerDNS Security Advisories... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 3565d | 347 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.2 released! We are pleased to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.2. This release fixes several security issues reported to us in the last few months, as well as a memory leak in the Postgresql backend. The... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3565d | 340 | Domain “slammer” making millions in Oz A company accused of the domain slamming scam made over $5 million over three years tricking companies into buying domains they didn t need, it has been alleged. Consumer Affairs Victoria, an Australian state government... |
| Tony Finch | 3567d | 321 | Even more compact encoding of the leap seconds list Following on from my recent item about the leap seconds list I have come up with a better binary encoding which is half the size of my previous attempt. (Compressing it with deflate no longer helps.)
Here's the new... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3567d | 321 | DCA files for ANOTHER .africa injunction DotConnectAfrica is continuing its legal attempt to prevent the .africa gTLD from being delegated to a competitor supported by African governments. The recalcitrant applicant has filed for another temporary restraining... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3567d | 348 | RightSide cuts super-premium fees in half, drops premium... New gTLD registry RightSide has slashed the minimum price of its so-called Platinum tier premium domains and dropped renewal fees for these domains down to an affordable level. The price changes come as part of two new... |
| Tony Finch | 3568d | 281 | Named and optional function arguments in C11 Here's an amusing trick that I was just discussing with Mark Wooding on IRC.
Did you know you can define functions with optional and/or named arguments in C11? It's not even completely horrible!
The main limitation... |
| Tony Finch | 3569d | 285 | QP trie news roundup Firstly, I have to say that it's totally awesome that I am writing this at all, and it's entirely due to the cool stuff done by people other than me. Yes! News about other people doing cool stuff with my half-baked... |
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