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3784d368Your New Year’s Resolution for 2014 – Does It Include...
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2014! We re VERY excited for this next year and look forward to bringing you another year of the best in real-world deployment information to help you make your networks better, faster, more...
3786d355These are the first four new gTLD domain names
Two luxury goods companies have the honor of being the first to register domain names in a new gTLD. Today, the first four domain names registered to actual registrants popped up in the zone file for dotShabaka Registry...
3787d385First new gTLD Sunrise ends with “very few” registrations
The first new gTLD Sunrise period was not a success, according to dotShabaka Registry. The 60-day Sunrise for شبكة. (.web in Arabic) ended yesterday with very few registrations, the company told us today, due largely to...
3787d32Tweets of December 30 2013
RT @DeSpeld: Dieptrieste imbeciel mikt op halve minuut aandacht met megastrijker - Pathetische loser heeft heel jaar gespaard http://t.co/A… Mon Dec 30 09:56:08 +0000 2013 Is Jannetje Koelewijn al ter plekke? Mon Dec 30...
3787d314DNSSEC Audit Framework
In collaboration with SWITCH, the .CH and .LI registry, we have created a DNSSEC audit framework, that can be used to conduct a review of your or someone else's DNSSEC implementation.
3787d490.ninja springs to life as a squirrel as 19 new gTLDs get...
ICANN may be taking Christmas week off, but Verisign apparently isn t another 19 new gTLDs were delegated to the DNS root system last night. Most belong to Donuts: .training, .builders, .coffee, .codes, .education,...
3790d370ICANN has spent $120 million on new gTLDs
The new gTLD program has cost ICANN almost $120 million so far, according to a quarterly financial report published earlier this week. It s the first time ICANN has published a quarterly statement. Normally it only files...
3790d412Uniregistry plans “dot-spanning” Sunrise periods and...
Uniregistry is to offer a second Sunrise period in its new gTLDs, going over and above what is required by ICANN, aimed at companies with trademarks that span the dot . Say you run a tattoo parlor and have a trademark on...
3791d366In praise of PPM/PNM: printf-style graphical (debugging)...
When programming, it is often convenient to emit debugging output, and it is very easy to do so in textual format using printf, syslog, console.log and their friends. And once emitted, there are ample tools to analyse...
3793d379Applicant says .islam ban would damage ICANN
If ICANN decides to reject Asia Green IT s applications for .islam and .halal it would be dealing a blow to the new gTLD program s credibility , according to AGIT. The two potential new gTLDs are currently in limbo,...
3794d400Today’s new gTLD passes, signings and withdrawals
ICANN signed 21 new gTLD registry contracts late last week, while one applicant has withdrawn and another has passed evaluation. First, Donuts has pulled out of its two-way contest for .global, leaving the path clear for...
3794d390a local, augmented root-zone with DNSSEC
Sometimes I get this question in my DNSSEC training classes: "now DNSSEC seems to be a good technology, but the root-zone is controlled by the US government. Because of that, can we trust DNSSEC?". My answer is not to...
3796d356Call For Participation – Submit Your Idea For The ICANN 49..
Do you have an idea for a great presentation you d like to give around DNSSEC?  Perhaps a demonstration of a new tool or service?  Or new DNSSEC statistics or measurements?  Or a new application that works with the DANE...
3797d461RFC 1323: TCP Extensions for High Performance
L'algorithme originel de TCP rendait ce protocole de transport trop prudent et n'utilisant pas assez les réseaux, notamment ceux à forte latence (latence.html). Après quelques essais, ce RFC 1323, publié en 1992, a...
3797d440Extortion.sucks — Vox Pop CEO defends “under-priced”...
Vox Populi Registry, the .sucks new gTLD applicant backed by Momentous Corp, is to charge trademark owners $25,000 to participate in its Sunrise period, should it win the TLD. Not only that, but it s become the first new...
3797d562Applicants spank IO in .health objections
Donuts and Dot Health LLC have beaten back objections filed by ICANN s Independent Objector over the .health gTLD. In simultaneous separate rulings by the same three-person International Chamber of Commerce panel, it was...
3798d5561 & 1′s new gTLD ads banned for “misleading” viewers
TV ads promoting 1 1 s new gTLD pre-registration services have been banned from the UK s airwaves after being ruled misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority. The ads were part of probably the biggest new gTLD...
3798d423Donuts officially richer than God after winning three new...
Donuts has a clear path to being awarded the .church, .life and .loans new gTLDs, following a private auction managed by Innovative Auctions this week. Life Covenant Church and CompassRose.life have already withdrawn...
3798d396.buzz and .support go live
DotStrategy has become the newest registry with a gTLD live in the DNS root. Its .buzz, which is aimed at groups related to blogging, communications, journalism, advertising, and marketing and development was delegated...
3798d378Issue setting up secondary DNS server (same glue error)
I'm attempting to setup a cPanel DNSOnly server. But, I'm getting a same glue error when I do a DNS lookup. Here's what I've done: Updated the nameserver at the domain register to match the new IP. Updated the A record...
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