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3686d355Verisign stock punished after US move from root control
Verisign s share price is down around 8% in early trading today, after analysts speculated that the US government s planned move away from control of the DNS root put .com at risk. The analyst firm Cowan Co cut its...
3686d380Panel doesn’t consider TLD in the first-ever new gTLD UDRP..
The first new gTLD domain name has been lost to a UDRP complaint. The famous German bike maker Canyon Bicycles won canyon.bike from a registrant who said he d bought the name and others in order to protect the company...
3687d271NTIA Announces Intent to Transition Key Internet Domain...
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3687d350Roundup: industry reaction to US giving up IANA role
Members of the domain name industry and ICANN community reacted generally positively to the news Friday night that the US will step aside from its central role in ICANN oversight. Several companies, organizations and...
3687d339Belgians do want a piece of Donuts’ new gTLD action
The Belgian government is blocking approval of Donuts bid for the new gTLD .spa until the company agrees to hand over up to 25% of its .spa profits to the community of the city of Spa. It emerged in a letter from Spa...
3688d308Weekend Project: Try Out “Bloodhound”, A Web Browser With...
Here is a quick project to try out this weekend download and try out the Bloodhound web browser from the DNSSEC Tools Project. This web browser is a modified version of Mozilla Firefox that supports local validation of...
3689d292Which managed DNS solution do you recommend?
I currently manage 273 zones with about 100.000.000 queries a month in PowerDNS. Lately I've been wondering if it is time to move to a managed DNS solution such as Amazon Route 53, DynECT or UltraDNS. The reason I want...
3689d348US to give up control over ICANN
In what can only be described as an historic announcement, the United States government tonight said that it will walk away from its control of the DNS root zone. ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade said during a press conference...
3689d336Compter sérieusement le nombre d'attaques informatiques ?
La presse à sensation et les rapports des sociétés qui vendent de la sécurité informatique sont pleins de chiffres sur les « cyber-attaques ». Des titres comme « de 10 à 100 attaques à la seconde » ou « une cyber-attaque...
3689d347Donuts: “eco” registrants could get their names back
Registrants whose domains were deleted by Donuts this week could get their names back, should ICANN release them from its reserved lists in future, the company said today. In an email to affected registrants, believed to...
3689d327French registrar gets Whois data waiver
The French registrar OVH has been told by ICANN that it can opt out of a requirement to retain its customers contact data for two years after their domain names expire. The move potentially means many more registrars...
3689d334Common first name lost to URS complaint
The first controversial Uniform Rapid Suspension decision? Probably not. An self-described entrepreneur from Texas has lost control of the domain dana.holdings after a URS complaint filed by Dana Holding, a vehicle...
3690d285La NSA a t-elle une webcam dans votre salle de bains ?
Hier, 13 mars 2014, à l'ESGI à Paris, j'ai participé au « Security Day (http://www.globalsecuritymag.fr/13-mars-Paris-Security-Day-ESGI,20140227,43264.html) » avec un exposé de spéculation sur les capacités effectives de...
3690d301RFC 7153: IANA Registries for BGP Extended Communities
Rien de dramatiquement nouveau dans ce RFC sur le protocole de routage BGP. Il s'agit juste d'une réorganisation des registres qui stockent les « communautés étendues », des attributs d'une annonce BGP. Les communautés...
3690d273NSD 4.0.3 released
Fix start-stop problems.
3690d304A Breakfast Gathering of DNSSEC Advocates At IETF 89
One of the great joys of working within the DNSSEC community is the truly outstanding and passionate people that are all focused on how we can make the Internet more secure and trustworthy. Last week at IETF 89 in London...
3690d281Reports of Errors for the 021yy.org Domain
Comcast saw reports on Slashdot of errors resolving the 021yy.org domain name. Upon investigation it appears the domain is improperly delegated to the authoritative servers for this domain (one of which is...
3690d209Reports of Errors for the 021yy.org Domain
Comcast saw reports on Slashdot of errors resolving the 021yy.org domain name. Upon investigation it appears the domain is improperly delegated to the authoritative servers for this domain (one of which is...
3691d406Disadvantaged kids need your money after terrible Name.com..
Domain name registrar Name.com carried out what can only be described as a completely abysmal charity fund-raising drive during this week s South by Southwest conference, and disadvantaged kids need your help as a...
3691d322RFC 7166: Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3
La version 2 du protocole de routage OSPF avait un mécanisme d'authentification (annexe D du RFC 2328). Lors de la conception de la version 3 (qui permettait notamment d'ajouter IPv6), ce mécanisme avait été abandonné,...
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