News from the DNS blogsphere.
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DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3627d | 338 | Was panel wrong to put .africa on ice or does ICANN have... Did an Independent Review Process panel get it wrong when it accused ICANN of failing to implement proper accountability mechanisms, or did it actually highlight a more serious problem? As we reported yesterday, an IRP... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3627d | 330 | KnujOn scores a win as BizCN gets first breach notice The Chinese registrar BizCN has received its first breach notice from ICANN s compliance department, following a sustained campaign by anti-spam activist KnujOn. The notice concerns Whois accuracy, specifically for the... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3627d | 313 | GNSO says dot-brand rules “inconsistent” with policy The ability of dot-brand gTLDs to limit how many registrars they work with is inconsistent with the GNSO s longstanding policy on new gTLDs, ICANN s GNSO Council has found. At the end of March, ICANN approved a set of... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3627d | 358 | Best anchor tenant ever? 50 Cent to use a .club The American rapper Curtis 50 Cent Jackson has become the first big-name celebrity to get in on the new gTLD game, announcing today that he s launching a fan site on a .club domain. He ll launch 50inda.club at a .CLUB... |
Jan-Piet Mens | 3627d | 289 | CONNECT 2400 -- NO CARRIER Going back many years, purchasing and installing a modem was easy once you found a shop that carried something affordable and another shop to provide an RS-232 cable suitable for connecting to the computer. Modems came... |
Stéphane Bortzmeyer | 3627d | 307 | RFC 7258: Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack Assez des RFC qui décrivent un protocole réseau, jusque dans les plus infimes détails, au bit près ? Et des RFC bureaucratiques sur le fonctionnement de l'IETF et de tout son zoo de groupes et de comités ? Voici un RFC... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3627d | 356 | .africa frozen by panel after ICANN screwup ZA Central Registry s bid for the .africa new gTLD has been put on ice by an arbitration panel which admonished ICANN for failing to follow its own bylaws. An Independent Review Panel ruled yesterday that ICANN should... |
Bert Hubert | 3628d | 343 | Will your startup idea be successful? I don’t know. But... (this post contains two startup ideas that you might consider doing, if so, please contact me !)
Judging startup ideas. This is notoriously hard but simultaneously enormously relevant. It is hard to predict if an idea... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3629d | 368 | Congress may block funding for IANA transition A US House of Representatives committee has voted to de-fund the IANA transition process. On Thursday, the House Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal year 2015 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill,... |
Stéphane Bortzmeyer | 3629d | 318 | RFC 7227: Guidelines for Creating New DHCPv6 Options Le protocole DHCPv6, normalisé dans le RFC 3315, permet de configurer des clients IPv6 depuis un serveur central, qui maintient un état (adresses IP attribuées, par exemple). Des tas d'options... |
OpenDNS Blog | 3631d | 415 | Password Security Is as Easy as 1234567 Open Sesame! Passwords have existed in one form or another since ancient times. Once used to keep evildoers out of encampments, they now protect our data and identities from modern-day criminals. Apps, online accounts,... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3631d | 336 | Six ways ICANN is ballsing up the IANA transition ICANN has been subjected to its first wave of criticism over its handling to date of the IANA transition process, which will see oversight of the DNS root leave US government hands. Yesterday was the deadline for... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3631d | 349 | .club on track to topple .guru? .CLUB Domains sold an additional 4,904 domain names on its second day its first full day of general availability, taking it into the top five new gTLD registries by volume. The zone started today with 30,680 names,... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3632d | 332 | .club tops 25,000 names on day one The new gTLD .club got to 25,776 domains in its first 10 hours of general availability yesterday. According to today s zone file data, that makes it the sixth-largest new gTLD by volume. It s the third-best launch day... |
Stéphane Bortzmeyer | 3632d | 295 | Vente de vulnérabilités logicielles ; vrai ou pas vrai ? Normalement, les gens qui découvrent une faille de sécurité dans un logiciel préviennent les mainteneurs du logiciel et ne publient qu'après avoir laissé du temps à ceux-ci de corriger la faille. C'est ce qu'on nomme le... |
NLnet Labs | 3633d | 313 | Net::DNS 0.75 released Besides bugfixes zone transfers can now be TSIG verified |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3633d | 317 | .club “hits top 10″ new gTLDs in minutes The new .club gTLD went into the top 10 new gTLDs by volume in the first instants of general availability this afternoon, according to the registry and partner Go Daddy. .CLUB Domains CEO Colin Campbell told DI, about... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3633d | 336 | Architelos goes flat-rate with NameSentry pricing Architelos has introduced flat-rate pricing for its flagship NameSentry abuse detection and mitigation service. Now, TLD registries will be able to pay $389 a month for the Basic service and $689 for the Enterprise... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3633d | 363 | ICANN split between GNSO and GAC on IGO names ICANN s board of directors has refused to choose between the Generic Names Supporting Organization and the Governmental Advisory Committee on the issue of intergovernmental organization protections. In a resolution last... |
OpenDNS Blog | 3634d | 344 | Welcome Sydney, Our 21st Data Center! OpenDNS is committed to providing the best experience to our users everywhere. To do that, we’re continuously building out our global network. We’re building more new sites than ever before as well as adding more network... |
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