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3723d386Will .exposed see a big sunrise?
Donuts new gTLD .exposed goes into sunrise today, but will it put the fear into trademark owners? It s arguably the first ransom TLD to go live in the current round and the first since .xxx, which scared mark holders...
3724d367Google giving away 5,000 free new gTLD domains
Google is giving away free .みんな domains. According to a company spokesperson, the first 5,000 people to submit a .みんな web site idea via a campaign web site will receive a coupon for a free one-year registration in the...
3724d369PIR goes live with three non-Latin .org gTLDs
The internet has its first IDN versions of legacy gTLDs. Public Interest Registry had three new gTLDs delegated over the weekend, all non-Latin versions of its flagship .org. The gTLDs were .संगठन, which means...
3726d297Free DNSSEC Training In Singapore March 19-21
Are you going to be in Singapore March 19-21 and would be interested in some DNSSEC training? We ve been alerted by our friends at ICANN and the NSRC that they have a few open seats in the DNSSEC training classes they...
3726d378Weekend Project: Check Out The New “getdns” API
Are you an application developer who makes queries to DNS somewhere inside your application? If so or if you aren t, but are just looking for a reason to play around with some code there s a new getdns API out that is...
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GNOME 3 finally pushed me over the edge. After I brief stint with cinnamon , I decided the only thing left was to configure a tiling window manager and some tweaks to make it more usable. For no reason at all, I settled...
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GNOME 3 finally pushed me over the edge. After I brief stint with cinnamon , I decided the only thing left was to configure a tiling window manager and some tweaks to make it more usable. For no reason at all, I settled...
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GNOME 3 finally pushed me over the edge. After I brief stint with cinnamon, I decided the only thing left was to configure a tiling window manager and some tweaks to make it more usable. For no reason at all, I settled...
3727d360Twitter starts supporting (some) new gTLDs
Twitter has started recognizing new gTLDs on its web page and on Tweetdeck. As of some point in the last 48 hours, you can type something like nic.berlin or fire.plumbing in a tweet and Twitter will automatically turn it...
3727d350.secure applicant loses CTO to Yahoo!
Yahoo has reportedly hired a new chief information security officer in the form of Alex Stamos, outspoken CTO of .secure new gTLD applicant Artemis Internet. The news of Stamos departure was first reported by Re/code,...
3727d396Go Daddy risking Oscars wrath with .buzz premium domains?
The new gTLD registry Dot Strategy included many famous brands on its list of premium .buzz names, including two that could get its partner, Go Daddy-owned Afternic, in hot water. Until a couple of hours ago, nic.buzz...
3727d299DNS Forwarding and registrars question
Can I reverse forward the zones from a authoritative zone server and use those forward servers as nameservers in a registrar? I know that, when you ask those forward servers for a record, the reply will not have the aa...
3727d382Final .eco applicant completes evaluation
Planet Dot Eco has finally passed its ICANN evaluation, meaning the four-way contention set for one of the oldest public new gTLD ideas, .eco, can move forward a little. In its Initial Evaluation last August, the company...
3728d339Deploy360@IETF89, Day 5: dnsop, uta
It s our last day here at the 89th IETF meeting and it s been a very exhausting but exhilirating meeting so far!  A lot of excellent work happening in so many areas! Our final day here ends with a number...
3728d304Are you using DNSSEC? Because, you should be. Check...
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3729d348Google’s first new gTLD racks up 2,300 domains
Google s Charleston Road Registry reached 2,300 .みんな domain names on the new gTLD s first day of general availability, immediately making it the biggest IDN gTLD by volume so far. The string is Japanese for everyone . As...
3729d309Deploy360@IETF89, Day 4: dane, sunset4, v6ops, 6tisch,...
The fourth day for our Deploy360 team at the 89th IETF meeting could perhaps best be described as utter madness as there are multiple working groups meeting on ALL of the topics we cover here:  IPv6, DNSSEC, securing BGP...
3729d335RFC 7149: Software-Defined Networking: A Perspective From...
Ah, le SDN (Software-Defined Networking)... Un buzz word fort du moment, l'équivalent de cloud pour les techniciens... Le terme est tellement vague et mal défini qu'il peut désigner tout et n'importe quoi. Dans ce RFC,...
3729d377New gTLDs pass 200,000 registrations
The number of domain names in new gTLDs passed 200,000 last night, according to zone files. The exact number, according to the DI PRO database, is 201,178. It s based on incremental organic growth over the last week...
3729d350.club “will overtake .guru” in week one
Now that we ve seen how many domain names are actually being sold in new gTLDs, you might reasonably expect some registries to rein in their more ambitious sales targets. Not so with .CLUB Domains, which plans to go to...
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