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3549d372Momentum offers free new gTLD show passes
Momentum Events is offering brands a free pass to its upcoming Digital Strategy DotOps Congress in Amsterdam. The deal is only open to companies that have not already applied for a new dot-brand gTLD. Each eligible...
3550d313ICM scraps free .xxx porn star offer, starts new one
ICM Registry has partnered with a company called Model Centro to offer free .xxx domain names to porn performers. Model Centro offers porn models a managed fan site and social networking service. It s free to the models,...
3550d306Slow start for .christmas with under 500 sales
Uniregistry s latest new gTLDs .christmas and .blackfriday seem to have stumbled out of the gates, both amassing fewer than 500 registrations in their first full day of general availability. In today s zone files,...
3550d271Net::DNS 0.78 released
Primarily bug fixes and multiline printing of TXT rdata
3550d258DC Upgrade Printer Issue
As the title said, after upgrading two of our DC's, we have lost the ability to map printers via a CNAME on one of our print servers. We have implemented the registry key fixes that are suggested, such as DNSonwire,...
3551d292Now Available - A Trend Chart Tracking DNSSEC Validation...
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3551d283Targeted Attacks by Penguins, Cyborgs and Athletes
It’s All About The Data Today, data defines our personal identities, companies’ intellectual property, and businesses’ reputations. Your credit ratings, a company’s competitive advantage, and even stock prices are...
3551d309Is the media right and are we all going to die from...
A brief post - I've long been unhappy with the media's reporting on science. It appears that news sites aren't there to disseminate truth and educate the populace, but to sell advertisement and clicks. Took me long...
3551d361Pinyin to beat IDN? .wang ready to overtake .在线
The .wang gTLD has seen great success, relatively, in its first week of general availability, crossing the 30,000 mark yesterday and entering the top 10 new gTLDs by registration volume. At its current rate of growth,...
3551d330Almost half of registrars “deficient” in compliance audit
Almost half of accredited domain name registrars were found deficient during a recent ICANN compliance survey. Results of an audit published today show that 146 of 322 registrars (45%) picked at random for the September...
3551d267So how did my friend lose all that weight/feel all that...
Hello - you probably got referred to this page by a friend that seemingly without effort suddenly dropped a lot of weight and perhaps can’t stop talking about how much better he or she now feels. You might have asked...
3552d369Finally! A DNSSEC Validation Trend Chart – Up And To The...
Finally!  What I ve always wanted for tracking the growth of DNSSEC validation by DNS resolvers is some kind of trend chart along the lines of Google s IPv6 Statistics page that could show the growth in DNSSEC...
3553d284RFC 7304: A method for mitigating namespace collisions
Il arrive parfois, lors de l'utilisation d'un nom de domaine, qu'il y ait plusieurs noms qui correspondent à l'intention exprimée par l'utilisateur humain (dans les milieux ICANN, c'est souvent appelé une collision,...
3556d339ICANN puts porn gTLDs on hold for no good reason?
In a decision that seems to have come out of nowhere, ICANN has effectively put bids for three porn-themed new gTLDs on hold. In a June 21 meeting, the board s New gTLD Program Committee discussed .adult, .sex and .porn,...
3556d396Report on ICANN50 DNSSEC Workshop: CloudFlare, HSMs, OTR...
We had an outstanding DNSSEC Workshop last Wednesday, June 25 ,2014, at ICANN 50 in London.  This was the big session of the DNSSEC activities at ICANN 50 and had a big turnout!  I counted around 120 people in the room...
3556d439Can someone explain SPF to me in laymans terms?
On occasion I handle some DNS stuff for my work and our clients. Recently we've had some trouble with emails getting blocked by spam. I've never had a good grasp of SPF records, and am looking for a tutorial. I've been...
3556d407The Mosquitto MQTT broker gets Websockets support
When I wrote about the HiveMQ MQTT broker I said it had a killer-feature: support for Websockets. I'll admit to have been pestering Roger Light , creator of Mosquitto , so much that to shut me up (I think) he's been...
3556d247I'm having an issue with a DNS change
Hello I'm trying to change my DNS over from it's current host on enom.com to the Amazon Route 53 DNS service. I've created the hosted zone on Amazon, copied the NS records and put them into the DNS Settings at...
3556d322US winemakers rebel against their government
Groups representing thousands of US winemakers have come out against .wine and .vin, bringing their government s position on the two proposed new gTLDs into question. Eight regional winery associations, representing...
3557d316Democrat congressman sides with France on .wine
US Representative Anna Eshoo has written to ICANN s top brass to express deep concerns about the .wine and .vin new gTLDs and urge that they be permanently killed off. In a letter (pdf) to CEO Fadi Chehade, Eshoo wrote:...
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