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3437d277Eleven domains suspended under .uk anti-rape rules
Nominet has suspended and permanently blocked 11 rape domain names in .uk since introducing a controversial policy earlier this year. The company today disclosed that nine pre-existing domains were suspended immediately...
3437d297After lawsuit, YouPorn buys into .xxx portfolio
Porn site operator Manwin Licensing, known to the domain industry for its antitrust lawsuit against ICANN and ICM Registry that was settled last year, has taken over a portfolio of .xxx domains from a staunch .xxx...
3438d224Unbound 1.5.1 released
CVE-2014-8602 denial of service fixed. Crash fix, compile fix. aaaa-filter patch.
3438d294Picking open source technology: pick the community too
A brief post on picking (open source) technology. When we need something for our project, say, a database, we have a large range of choices. There is old and staid software that may not be hip, but comes with a well...
3439d304DNS lookup failed or very, very, slow.
Everyone thought it was bandwidth utilization but we brought in a new 50/10 circuit (this issue wasn't the deciding factor) and it may have gotten worse. Symptoms: Pages load slowly, I mean 56k slow but only sometimes,...
3440d320Congratulations To .NL For Passing 2 Million DNSSEC-Signed..
Congratulations to the team at SIDN and all the .NL registrars and DNS hosting providers for the fact that there are now 2 million .NL domain names secured by DNSSEC!  Yesterday as the SIDN team apparently became aware...
3440d292As another group rejects proposal, is NETmundial...
The nascent NETmundial Initiative appears to be in dire straits already, just weeks into its existence, after another influential internet governance body decided against joining. The Internet Architecture Board, which...
3440d259RFC 7410: A Property Types Registry for the...
Le RFC 7001 avait créé l'en-tête de courrier "Authentication-Results:" qui permettait de signaler à un logiciel de courrier les résultats de tests d'authenticité faits par un serveur. Cet en-tête pouvait inclure un type...
3440d242DNS help with a web spider
I am running a simple PERL web spider at home on a linux computer. When running 20 or more threads I tend to take down my router. This has been something i've looked into from time to time over the years. I use dd-wrt...
3440d253Made a DNS change for the company website and everyone on...
I was on a client site and made companydomain.com point to a new server, which worked almost immediatly. Everyone else sees that companydomain.com resolves to a new IP address EXCEPT for everyone in our office. We're all...
3441d273An explanation of Windows client behavior
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3441d277Want To Speak About Your DNSSEC Or DANE Work, Tool or...
Will you be attending ICANN 52 in Singapore in February 2015?  If so, and if you work with DNSSEC or DANE , we are seeking speakers for the ICANN 52 DNSSEC Workshop to be held on Wednesday, February 11, 2015. The full...
3441d281Fedora RPM specs for pdnsd and dnscrypt-proxy
If you happen to be looking for RPMs for pdnsd and dnscrypt-proxy on Fedora, you can use my RPM specs to build RPMS to install on your Fedora Linux machine. I've tested them to work on Fedora 19. The original pdnsd SPEC...
3441d296Introducing a New Platform for Cloud-Delivered Security
“We are not getting the most out of our existing security products. They don’t talk to each other, and they don’t work when people leave the office.” This is what I hear from CIOs and CISOs when I talk about the OpenDNS...
3441d296Donuts wins five more new gTLD auctions
Donuts added five new gTLDs to its ever-growing portfolio this week, as the results of five private auctions were revealed. The company won the following strings: .news went to Donuts after withdrawals from Merchant Law...
3441d306Olle Johansson’s #MoreCrypto V2.0 Slide Deck – With TLS
Olle Johansson is a tireless crusader for bringing about a more secure Internet and just recently published a new version 2.0 of his #MoreCrypto slide presentation that this time incorporates a good bit more information...
3442d285M+M raises $4.4m losing latest gTLD auctions
Minds + Machines made $4.4 million losing three recent new gTLD auctions, according to a company press release. It s withdrawn bids for .latino, .school and a third string it said it could not disclose due to the rules...
3443d330Community proposes way to replace US oversight of ICANN
The process of removing the US government from management of the DNS root system took a significant step forward today, with the publication of a community proposal for a transition. The Cross Community Working Group,...
3443d296Richemont pulls two dot-brand bids
Luxury goods company Richemont has withdrawn two of its original 14 new gTLD applications. The company, which has been a vocal supporter of dot-brand gTLDs, pulled its bids for .netaporter and .mrporter this week. Mr...
3443d295FIBA wins .basketball
A sport-related new gTLD is going to an official sporting body. FIBA, the Fédération Internationale de Basketball, won the right to .basketball after an auction shoot-out with Donuts and Famous Four Media. While FIBA is...
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