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3393d343A quarter of registrar’s names are “illicit pharmacies”
One in four of the domain names registered with the registrar NetLynx are linked to current, past or potential future rogue drug sites, according to online pharmacy monitor LegitScript. The Mumbai-based registrar was hit...
3393d334.top says Facebook shakedown was just a typo
Jiangsu Bangning Science Technology, the .top registry, is blaming a typo for a Facebook executive s claim that it wanted $30,000 or more for facebook.top. Information provided to the ICANN GNSO Council by Facebook...
3393d286Against DNSSEC — Quarrelsome
submitted by Habbie [link] [comment]
3393d339New gTLD extortion? Registry asks Facebook for $35,000 to...
More Chinese weirdness, or just plain old trademark owner extortion? The registry for the new gTLD .top is allegedly asking Facebook to cough up $35,000 in order to defensively register one of its trademarks as a .top...
3394d323À propos de la panne d'Oxalide
Ce matin, l'hébergeur Oxalide (http://www.oxalide.com/) a été en panne pendant environ une heure et demie, entraînant l'indisponibilité d'un grand nombre de sites Web, notamment de la presse française.
3394d348New gTLD registries talk up marketing plans at NamesCon
This week s NamesCon conference here in Las Vegas, which ended yesterday, offered several new domain registries the chance to talk about their efforts past and future to market new gTLDs. One theme to emerge was how...
3395d306Continuons à souteir Charlie Hebdo
Dans l'émotion, depuis l'attaque des intégristes islamistes contre Charlie Hebdo, beaucoup de gens ont réagi, en manifestant, en envoyant une aide financière, en organisant discussions et réunions... Il est important que...
3395d380Mon blog dans les oignons
Cela faisait longtemps que je voulais m'amuser avec cela, donc, désormais, ce blog est désormais également accessible en Tor hidden service, c'est-à-dire avec un nom de domaine en ".onion".
3395d343Seller’s remorse despite .club leading $1m NamesCon...
The Right Of The Dot and SnapNames auction here at the NamesCon conference in Las Vegas last night raised just shy of $1 million, in what attendees broadly seem to agree was a successful event. The grand total was...
3395d843Over 600 Top-Level Domains Now Signed With DNSSEC
As I was entering in data for the weekly DNSSEC Deployment Maps, I was struck by the fact that we are now at the point where 615 of the 793 top-level domains (TLDs) are now signed with DNSSEC. You can see this easily at...
3395d291Why DNS in OS X 10.10 is broken, and what you can do to...
submitted by Habbie [link] [comment]
3395d286When DNSBLs Go Bad
submitted by cmeerw [link] [comment]
3396d378.xyz press release yanked for “encouraging cybersquatting”
XYZ.com has withdrawn a month-old press release following allegations that it encouraged cybersquatting in .xyz. The December 3 release concerned the release of 18,000 .xyz domains that were previously blocked due to...
3396d335Here’s how the new number two new gTLD got so big so quick
Attentive DI readers will recall my journalistic meltdown last week, when I tried to figure out how the Chinese new gTLD .网址 managed to hit #2 in the new gTLD zone file size league table, apparently shifting a quarter of...
3396d343Vegas.club sells for $100,000
.CLUB Domains said today it has sold the domain vegas.club for $100,000, and will help in its promotion as a members-only site for deals related to Las Vegas. The deal was announced here at the NamesCon conference at the...
3396d261Once More into the Breach…¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We’ve recently closed the book on 2011 2012 2013 2014, all named the Year of the Breach. Last year saw more, and more severe, breaches reported in the news than ever before—huge names like Target, Home Depot, JP Morgan,...
3397d287DNS / VPS to access websites
Hey not sure if its the right place but I bought subscription for Star Sports an India streaming football matches. I used hola vps but the speed was terrible is their any other solutions? submitted by Chickenhub [link]...
3397d303Do you love DNS? Do you Wireshark? Tshark? tcpdump? snoop?..
My employer is looking for a hard core dns person. Some attributes we're looking for... Must be eligible to work in Canada (sorry!) Must know DNS and all things tcp/ip. We use these things. Linux, Unix, Solaris,...
3397d294In 5 Days, ION Sri Lanka Will Cover IPv6, DNSSEC, DANE,...
Coming up in just over 5 days, our ION Sri Lanka event will take place in Kandy, Sri Lanka, on Sunday, January 18, 2015, beginning at 10:00 am India Standard Time (IST, UTC+5:30).  As our agenda shows, we have an...
3400d419Recursive DNS server failover with keepalived --vrrp
I have got keepalived working on my recursive DNS servers, handling failover for testdns0.csi.cam.ac.uk and testdns1.csi.cam.ac.uk. I am quite pleased with the way it works. It was difficult to get started because...
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