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3599d320dotBERLIN pulls plug on free domain giveaway
The .berlin registry has apparently halted the promotion that has given away tens of thousands of free domain names, citing unexpectedly high demand. According to 101domain, a registrar that started giving away .berlin...
3599d385DNS Considerations for IPv6
With so much information on IPv6 focusing on connectivity, it s sometimes important to remember that deploying IPv6 for actual use requires changes to the Domain Name System(DNS) as well. DNS has become even more...
3599d333Are you ready to sell your new gTLD yet?
Applicant Auction wants to know. The company, which was set up to help resolve new gTLD contention sets, has started pitching its services to the owners of gTLDs that are already delegated. An email sent out to...
3599d3523 DNSSEC Sessions At ICANN 50 In London Next Week
Next week (June 23-26, 2014), we ll be at ICANN 50 in London for the usual excellent DNSSEC sessions, two of which will be streamed live for remote participants. The three activities are DNSSEC For Everybody: A Beginner...
3600d313RFC 7240: Prefer Header for HTTP
Dans certains cas, la norme du protocole HTTP laisse un serveur choisir entre plusieurs comportements, tous légaux. Un client peut avoir une préférence personnelle et ce nouvel en-tête "Prefer:", dans la requête HTTP,...
3600d346London meeting already ICANN’s second-biggest
Over 2,200 people have already registered for ICANN 50, which kicks off this coming weekend in London. According to ICANN, that puts the upcoming meeting second only to last year s one in Beijing, which had 3,141...
3600d350CentralNic pays up to $7.5m for Internet.bs
CentralNic has acquired the unfortunately named Bahamas-based registrar Internet.bs for up to $7.5 million, in an effort to bolster its registrar business. The deal is for a mixture of cash ($2.7 million), newly issued...
3600d338.berlin rockets to 116k on free domain offer
A promotion from dotBERLIN saw .berlin more than double its registration count yesterday, as speculators (apparently) swooped to claim over 67,000 free domain names. The new gTLD ended the day with 115,966 domains in its...
3601d317RFC 7238: The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Status...
Le protocole HTTP définit plusieurs codes de retour pour une redirection (« la ressource que tu cherches n'est pas ici, va voir là »). La section 6.4 du RFC 7231 classe ces trois codes de retour en notant que deux...
3601d347RFC 7239: Forwarded HTTP Extension
Lorsqu'un client HTTP se connecte directement à un serveur HTTP, ce dernier voit l'adresse IP du client et peut la journaliser pour la traçabilité, faire du contrôle d'accès, des statistiques, etc. Mais si le client est...
3601d330Happy Birthday OwnTracks!
The idea for an application on a smartphone which publishes your location via MQTT was born a few weeks prior to the first commit to the Android app . My first notes are dated June 16th, and shortly thereafter I spoke to...
3601d366Donuts wins .immo gTLD
Donuts has acquired the .immo new gTLD after its three rival bidders withdrew their applications. Minds + Machines, dotimmobilie and Starting Dot have all withdrawn from the contest in the last few days, presumably due...
3601d363Donuts spends $50 million on new gTLD auctions
Donuts has revealed that its bill for new gTLD auctions has so far come to $50 million. That, coupled with some other data released in a blog post last week, suggests that it s spent over $2 million, on average, per...
3602d303RFC 7236: Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)...
Une des nouveautés de la série de RFC sur le protocole HTTP 1.1 (http-11-reecrit.html) est l'introduction d'un registre des mécanismes d'authentification (RFC 7235). Ce registre commence avec les mécanismes...
3602d325RFC 7235: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1):...
Dans la série de RFC sur le protocole HTTP 1.1 (http-11-reecrit.html), ce nouveau document normalise l'authentification faite en HTTP.
3602d332Stocker son identité dans Namecoin ?
Le système Namecoin peut servir à beaucoup de choses. Pourquoi pas à avoir une identité stable, en ligne, sans dépendre d'aucune « plateforme » centralisée ?
3603d312RFC 7233: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range...
Parmi les fonctions du protocole HTTP 1.1 (http-11-reecrit.html) qui ont eu droit à un RFC spécifique, les intervalles. C'est la possibilité de récupérer en HTTP, non pas la totalité d'une ressource mais une partie, un...
3603d318RFC 7234: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching
Le protocole HTTP 1.1, désormais décrit dans une série de RFC (http-11-reecrit.html), transporte énormément de données tous les jours et consomme donc à lui seul une bonne partie des ressources de l'Internet. D'où...
3603d328OwnTracks in a vehicle: Choral Greenwich
Stefano Costa sent me a Choral Greenwich for evaluation. I've had my eyes on that or something similar for a while now because my brother in law has been fascinated by OwnTracks , and he's interested in tracking a number...
3604d496RFC 7230: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message...
Grande révision de la norme HTTP 1.1, désormais éclatée en huit RFC différents (http-11-reecrit.html). Celui-ci décrit l'architecture générale du principal protocole du Web, HTTP, le format des URI "http:" et "https:",...
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