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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3321d | 309 | Identify.com terminated ICANN has terminated the accreditation of defunct registrar Identify.com. The company received its final compliance notice (pdf) last week and will lose its contractual ability to sell gTLD domains April 17. Not that... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3321d | 346 | Why is .sucks based in Frank Schilling’s office? The upcoming new gTLD .sucks is being run from the offices of Frank Schilling s Uniregistry and it has a close business relationship with the registry, DI has discovered. Vox Populi Registry, which runs .sucks and which... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3322d | 333 | Verisign adds 750,000 .com names instantly with reporting... Verisign has boosted its reportable .com domain count by almost 750,000 by starting to count expired and suspended names. The change in methodology, which may be a by-product of ICANN s much more stringent Whois accuracy... |
| ISOC Deploy360 DNSSEC | 3322d | 263 | Dan York Changing His Role With Deploy360 Ch..ch changes I just wanted to give readers a bit of a heads up that some things are changing within this Deploy360 site and some things are staying the same. At the beginning of March I moved from the Deployment and... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3322d | 316 | All eyes on Donuts as first new gTLD renewal figures roll... Donuts is about to give the world the clearest picture yet of the ongoing demand for new gTLD domain names. The company has taken the unprecedented decision to disclose its renewal figures on a pretty much live basis.... |
| ISOC Deploy360 DNSSEC | 3322d | 285 | Deploy360@IETF92, Day 1: SIDR, 6MAN, DPRIVE and UTA On this first day of IETF 92 in Dallas, our attention as the Deploy360 team is on securing the Internet s routing infrastructure, improving the IPv6 protocol and securing the privacy and confidentiality of DNS queries.... |
| ISOC Deploy360 DNSSEC | 3324d | 327 | At IETF92 Next Week, Much Happening With IPv6, DNSSEC,... Next week is IETF 92 in Dallas, Texas, and there will be a great amount of activity happening with the topics we cover here on Deploy360: IPv6, DNSSEC (and DANE), TLS, anti-spoofing and securing BGP. As part of the... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 3325d | 384 | Shipping Apache logs to Graylog with a twist The Apache HTTP server allows a system administrator to configure how it should log requests. This is good in terms of flexibility, but it's horrid in terms of parsing: every installation can be different.
I was tasked... |
| DNS reddit | 3325d | 362 | Curious random DNS queries Hello, I did see a post ( http://redd.it/2isn35 ) similar to this, but it doesn't seem to be the same case.
I get some random queries, but the frequency is way to low to be an attempt to a DDOS/DOS attack. Also, I... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3326d | 378 | .tk registrar gets ICANN breach notice OpenTLD, the registrar owned by .tk registry Freenon, has received an odd contract-breach notice from ICANN. The company apparently forgot to send ICANN a Compliance Certificate for 2014, despite repeated pestering by... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3326d | 336 | ICANN slashes new gTLD revenues by 57%, forecasts renewals.. ICANN has dramatically reduced the amount of revenue it expects to see from new gTLDs in its fiscal 2015. According to a draft 2016 budget published this morning, the organization now reckons it will get just $300,000... |
| ISOC Deploy360 DNSSEC | 3326d | 321 | Registration Operations Workshop This Sunday Before IETF92.. How can operators of registries such as top-level domains (TLDs) make their operations more efficient and more secure? What can operators learn from each other? And what are some of the larger initiatives happening... |
| OpenDNS Blog | 3326d | 328 | WHOIS: Kevin Morrison, Director of Global Security and... This month s WHOIS features Kevin Morrison, Director of Global Security and Compliance at the Results Companies.
The post WHOIS: Kevin Morrison, Director of Global Security and Compliance at the Results Companies... |
| OpenDNS Blog | 3327d | 666 | OpenDNS and Amazon S3: Why DNS Log Monitoring Matters People are increasingly choosing to work from non-traditional places: the coffee shop, the airport lounge, the beach in Oahu. Our world of always-connected Internet has opened up a plethora of options for the modern... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3327d | 320 | Could Verisign lose $3.3m .gov deal? The US government has put its feelers out for information about a possible successor to Verisign as manager of the .gov TLD. A formal Request For Information potentially a precursor to a Request For Proposals was was... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3327d | 423 | Start-ups protest “the dark side of .io” Two technology start-up companies that use .io domain name are to campaign on behalf of the exiled natives of the islands represented by the ccTLD. As you re no doubt aware, in recent years .io became a popular TLD among... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 3327d | 306 | World Hosting Days & Private Graphs as a Service! Hi everybody, Two announcements in one: First, like 7000 others, we ll be visiting World Hosting Days in Rust, Germany next week. Peter, Pieter and I will be there, as will be two of our wonderful Certified Consultants... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3327d | 235 | It’s St Patrick’s Day, so .irish launches Dot-Irish has taken the symbolic opportunity presented by St Patrick s Day today to officially launch. The new gTLD entered its sunrise period today. It will run until May 17 before entering general availability. .irish... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3327d | 325 | Donuts launches first “not com” ad campaign Donuts has launched its first ad campaign, part of its plan to raise awareness about new gTLDs as a category. It s a digital-only video campaign, expected to run on sites including YouTube, the New York Times, Forbes,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3328d | 301 | Could you survive a .sucks UDRP? If you register a .sucks domain matching a brand, could you survive a subsequent UDRP complaint? Opinion is mixed. In my view, how UDRP treats .sucks registrants will be a crucial test of Vox Populi Registry s business... |
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