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3473d287Quitted ICANN director gets old job back
Olga Madruga-Forti, who quit ICANN s board of directors earlier this month, has gone back to work for the US Federal Communications Commission. I gather that while ICANN was aware of her new job, it was unable to...
3473d241Net::DNS 0.81 released
Bug fixes
3473d259xmodmap is dead
I'm using an Apple keyboard at work since a day or two, but for some reason this keyboard has a special key for eject, because in 1898 that was useful when you wanted to eject a cdrom. Anyway making this key do...
3473d167xmodmap is dead
I'm using an Apple keyboard at work since a day or two, but for some reason this keyboard has a special key for eject, because in 1898 that was useful when you wanted to eject a cdrom. Anyway making this key do...
3473d152xmodmap is dead
I m using an Apple keyboard at work since a day or two, but for some reason this keyboard has a special key for eject, because in 1898 that was useful when you wanted to eject a cdrom. Anyway making this key do something...
3474d2665 Tips to Help IT Admins Protect Their Users during...
As you may have heard, October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Vendors, security practitioners and regulatory agencies alike are producing a veritable treasure trove of infographics, ebooks and articles all...
3475d268Former pop star is .uk’s 10,000th cybersquatting case
Nominet has processed its 10,000th cybersquatting dispute, according to the company. Conveniently for the .uk registry s public relations department, the complainant in the case was Aston Merrygold, a well-known former...
3475d280gTLD auctions net ICANN another $13m
ICANN has raised another $12.9 million from new gTLD auctions. A small batch of three contention sets .realty, .salon and .spot were resolved last Wednesday in the third so-called last resort auction. .realty went to...
3475d278Is the free ride over for Verisign’s .net?
Verisign s .net is on the rocks due to new gTLDs, executives have confirmed. Speaking to investors and analysts on the company s third-quarter earnings call last week, CFO George Kilguss said that .net is experiencing...
3475d293ICANN terminates deadbeat registrar
ICANN has started termination proceedings on Domain Services Rotterdam, a Dutch registrar, for failure to pay accreditation fees. The company owes ICANN $5,118.83 in dues but has failed to pay up despite breach notices...
3475d282ICANN may cancel Morocco meeting over Ebola fear
ICANN may cancel its forthcoming meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, due to fears about the spread of Ebola in Africa. The organization issued a statement last night, after local reports said the decision to cancel had...
3476d290RFC 7375: Secure Telephone Identity Threat Model
Elle est loin, l'époque où l'Internet et le téléphone étaient deux mondes complètement séparés. Aujourd'hui, le téléphone n'est qu'une application parmi toutes celles tournant sur l'Internet. et les problèmes de sécurité...
3476d284RFC 7381: Enterprise IPv6 Deployment Guidelines
Le déploiement d'IPv6 continue, trop lentement, mais il continue et de plus en plus d'organisations font désormais fonctionner ce protocole. Ce document est une série de conseils sur le passage à IPv6 au sein d'une...
3477d204Need some DNS help.
For about 3 months now, I've had the constant problem of the default 127.0.0.1 DNS server not working. No sites load, but when I put in ip's they do. However, this is not a practical solution so I did some reading around...
3477d233DNS Nightmare
Hi guys, I am trying to redirect a client's website to my site hosted on Azure. I have created an @ and a www A record pointing to the azure IP. I have also created the following CNAMES: awverify awverify.www www...
3477d225DNSSEC Is A Building Block, Not A Magic Bullet
Speaking at Broadband World Forum (BBWF) in Amsterdam this week, our CITO Olaf Kolkman was quoted as saying a key point we ve been emphasizing throughout our work: There is no magic solution to any cyber security or...
3478d228Net::DNS::SEC 0.21 released
Single bugfix: canonicalize RRSIG's Signer Name
3478d291Slack
Slack calls itself a platform for team communication and it's all of that, and if you forgive my enthusiasm, a shit-load more. It has changed the way our tiny team works quite radically; for one, we've abandoned e-mail....
3478d231Always Be Advancing: An Update from Customer Success
In my last/first blog post, I mentioned kicking off an initiative to start boosting the volume and quality of value-added communication with our customers. The customer success team has been working hard to see this...
3478d277Admins Who Used ...
(A lunchtime inspiration by a party of 4)
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