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3781d357Seven more Donuts gTLDs delegated
Donuts had seven new gTLDs added to the DNS root zone today. The strings are: .diamonds, .tips, .photography, .directory, .kitchen, .enterprises and .today. The nic.tld domains in each are already resolving, redirecting...
3781d393New Kamailio DNSSEC Module Enables Higher Security For SIP..
If you are using voice-over-IP (VoIP), and specifically the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), how do you know if you are really connecting to the correct SIP server when you make a connection?  When you call someone,...
3781d555MQTT Inspector for iOS
When Christoph and I met for a pretty decent Indian meal a few months ago, the idea for a general MQTT viewer on iOS was born, but because progress on MQTTitude was more important, nothing really came of that until I saw...
3782d360DNSSEC Deployment Workshop On Wednesday At ICANN 48 – Live..
Interested in learning the current status of DNSSEC deployment?  Want to hear case studies from people who have deployed DNSSEC?  Would you like to know about some of the latest DNSSEC tools and services?  And what the...
3782d451DNS CNAME for internal ADFS setup
Setting up a SSO with ADFS for someone. Need to setup a DNS CNAME to route internal traffic (users authenticating on a given Domain) to the ADFS server. My question is in the formatting of the CNAME (and I apologize if...
3782d390TLDH reveals new gTLD launch strategy
Top Level Domain Holdings will announce its go-to-market strategy including .tv-style premium names pricing and its launch as a registrar at an event at ICANN 48 in Buenos Aires this evening. The company, which is...
3782d385.wow has more collisions than any other new gTLD
Amazon, Google or Demand Media are going to have to block over 200,000 strings in .wow, which all three have applied for, due to the risk of name collisions. That s tens of thousands of names greater than any other...
3782d414ICANN blocks almost 10 million new gTLD domains
ICANN has asked new gTLD registry operators to block a total of 9.8 million domain names, due to the perceived risk of damage from name collisions. To put it another way, Verisign has managed to take close to 10 million...
3782d328Watch/Listen Live TODAY to “DNSSEC For Everybody – A...
Want to quickly learn about DNSSEC and how it can make the Internet more secure?  Want to see an easy illustration of how DNSSEC works? Want to understand why DNSSEC is so important to strengthen the Internet against...
3783d353Pritz to head DNA trade group
Former ICANN chief strategy officer Kurt Pritz has just been named interim executive director of the Domain Name Association, the trade group formed this year to promote the domain industry. Pritz will apply his track...
3783d334KadNode - A simple P2P DNS tool
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3784d391ICANN 48 travelers face chaos after plane crash
Nobody was hurt. Don t worry. But dozens of ICANN 48 attendees experienced huge delays, frustration and anger after a plane skidded off the runway at Buenos Aires, temporarily closing the whole of the Ministro Pistarini...
3784d314Who Uses Google's Public DNS?
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3784d382Demystifying DITL Data [Guest Post]
With all the talk recently about DNS Namespace Collisions, the heretofore relatively obscure Day In The Life (“DITL”) datasets maintained by the DNS-OARC have been getting a lot of attention. While these datasets are...
3784d329Only two new gTLD bids in Initial Evaluation
Initial Evaluation on the first round of new gTLD applications is almost done, with only two bids now remaining in that stage of the program. ICANN last night published the delayed IE results for PricewaterhouseCooper s...
3784d356Why Hansen quit .nyc for .co.com
Ken Hansen has surprised many by resigning from Neustar, where he was general manager of the slam-dunk .nyc new gTLD initiative, to become CEO of .co.com, a new pseudo-TLD registry. The announcement raises a couple of...
3784d316Kleinwächter joins ICANN board
Internet governance expert Wolfgang Kleinwächter has joined ICANN s board of directors with immediate effect. Kleinwächter is the emergency replacement for Judith Vazquez, who quit with no explanation last month. He ll...
3786d340.sexy and 10 more gTLD now in the root
The third batch of new gTLDs have gone live. Uniregistry s .sexy and .tattoo are currently in the DNS root zone, the first two of its portfolio to become active. The TLDs .bike, .construction, .contractors, .estate,...
3786d325Name collisions expert JAS to guest blog on DI
JAS Global Advisors, the consultancy hired by ICANN to provide the final analysis on the risks posed by name collisions in new gTLDs, is to exclusively guest-blog its work here on DI. ICANN picked JAS to provide a Name...
3786d340Should The Root DNSSEC Key Be Rolled? ICANN’s SSAC Issues...
Should the root key of DNSSEC be rolled over?  And if so, when and under what conditions?  We ve mentioned this discussion before and even sent in our own comments to ICANN.  After reviewing all those comments and...
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