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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3625d | 323 | GMO offers free SSL with .shop domains GMO Registry is to offer .shop domain registrants a free one-year SSL certificate with every purchase. The company said yesterday that the deal, made via sister certificate company GMO GlobalSign, should be in place by... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3626d | 375 | Domaining Europe heading to Berlin next year Next year s Domaining Europe conference will be held in Berlin, organizers announced today. The three-day event is slated to start May 14, 2016, at the Steigenberger Hotel, covering the usual mix of sales, development... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3628d | 410 | Verisign and Afilias in open war over $135m .web Two of the industry s oldest and biggest gTLD registries escalated their fight over the .web gTLD auction this week, trading blows in print and in public. Verisign, accused by Afilias of breaking the rules when it... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3630d | 361 | New policy would ban President Trump from ICANN meetings... Those who sexually harass fellow community members could be banned from ICANN meetings under a policy proposed this week. The proposal greatly expands upon an earlier version, published for comment in May, which would... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3630d | 369 | Get ready for thousands of new two-letter domains New gTLD registry operators have been given the right to start selling two-letter domains that match country codes. Potentially thousands of names could start being released next year, resulting in a windfall for... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3631d | 423 | RFC 8020: NXDOMAIN: There Really Is Nothing Underneath Tout le monde apprend à l'école que les noms de domaine sont organisés en un arbre. (Et j'invite tout le monde à lire la section 3.1 du RFC 1034, pour dire moins de bêtises (parties-nom-domaine.html) sur les noms de... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3632d | 345 | “Shadow content policing” fears at ICANN 57 Fears that the domain name industry is becoming a stooge for shadow regulation of web content were raised, and greeted very skeptically, over the weekend at ICANN 57. Attendees yesterday heard concerns from... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3636d | 372 | Governments mull greater geo gTLD powers Governments are toying with the idea of asking ICANN for greater powers over gTLDs that match their geographic features. The names of rivers, mountains, forests and towns could be protected under ideas bandied around at... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3636d | 379 | Should new gTLDs be first-come, first-served? Who needs rounds? The idea of allocating new gTLDs on a first-come, first-served basis is getting some consideration at this week s ICANN 57 meeting. Such a move could have profound implications on the industry, creating... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 3638d | 378 | Quand le digital défie l'état de droit On ne peut plus se plaindre que l'irruption du numérique dans toutes les activités humaines se fasse sans réflexion politique ou juridique. Voici encore un nouvel ouvrage sur la question, écrit par un juriste qui connait... |
| NLnet Labs | 3638d | 261 | DNS-Based Email Security -- DRAFT NLnet Labs contributed to the NIST SP 1800-6 DNS-Based Email Security report. Scenarios and practical instructions to use DNSSEC and DANE to secure email exchange (authentication and encryption of email and mail... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3639d | 404 | RANT: Governments raise yet another UN threat to ICANN ICANN s transition away from US government oversight is not even a month old and the same old bullshit power struggles and existential threats appear to be in play as strongly as ever. Governments, via the chair of the... |
| Miek Gieben | 3640d | 631 | LEGO Vertical Lift Bridge I ve bought two LEGO 76057 sets and combined them to create a vertical lift bridge. It still needs a load of finishing touches, but it is working, although the alignment of the towers and the lift element itself needs to... |
| Miek Gieben | 3641d | 66 | Tweets of October 30 2016 My vertical lift bridge (had to look that up) is finally working: https://miek.nl/images/2016/bridge-above-view.jpg https://miek.nl/2016/October/30/lego-vertical-lift-bridge/ Sun Oct 30 11:33:52 +0000 2016 |
| Ask Mr. DNS | 3642d | 302 | Root DNSSEC Key Ceremony 27 Attestation -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, October 27, I attended the Root DNSSEC Key Ceremony 27, administered by Public Technical Identifiers (PTI), the administrator of the IANA functions and an... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3643d | 385 | ICANN to terminate Guardian’s last gTLD Newspaper publisher Guardian News Media is out of the gTLD game for good now, with ICANN saying this week that it will terminate its contract for the dot-brand, .theguardian. It s the 14th new gTLD registry agreement to... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3643d | 352 | Ship explosion cost ICANN $700k An explosion on board a cargo ship set ICANN back $700,000, the organization has revealed. The September 1 blast and subsequent fire, which we blogged about two weeks ago, cause equipment heading to ICANN 57 in Hyderabad... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3643d | 369 | ICANN has $400m in the bank ICANN ended its fiscal 2016 with just shy of $400 million on its balance sheet, according to its just-released financial report. As of June 30, the organization had assets of $399.6 million, up from $376.5 million a year... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3643d | 348 | Thick Whois coming to .com next year, price rise to... Verisign could be running a thick Whois database for .com, .net and .jobs by mid-2017, under a new ICANN proposal. A timetable published this week would see the final three hold-out gTLDs fully move over to the standard... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 3644d | 302 | Some good news on powerdns.org Way way back in the history of PowerDNS, we bought the full suite of domain names for our new company: powerdns.com, powerdns.net, powerdns.org. Alternate names for the company we considered at the time were SuperDNS and... |
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