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3852d349Still no closure on GAC new gTLD advice
ICANN board members met again to discuss the Governmental Advisory Committee s advice on new gTLDs at the weekend and, again, made baby steps towards addressing it. The main update in a just-published New gTLD Program...
3853d363Speaking at ENOG6 On Oct 2 About DNSSEC And DANE – Will Be..
What is the current status of DNSSEC deployment? What is going on with DANE? What are some of the remaining challenges? Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 2, 2013, I ll be speaking about these DNSSEC/DANE topics at the Eurasia...
3853d363OpenDNSSEC Offering Free DNSSEC Training Oct 10-11 in...
Interested in learning more about how to use OpenDNSSEC to secure your DNS infrastructure with DNSSEC?  We recently learned from a post by Patrik Wallström in the DNSSEC LinkedIn Group that there will be a free training...
3853d333RFC 6988: Requirements for Energy Management
L'augmentation considérable des coûts de l'énergie, et la montée plus que justifiée des préoccupations écologiques, fait que la question de la consommation énergétique des équipements informatiques devient de plus en...
3853d498Le principe de robustesse, une bonne ou une mauvaise...
On attribue souvent le succès de l'Internet, et notamment sa résilience, au principe de robustesse. Ce principe, attribué à Jon Postel, s'énonce « Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from...
3853d348New gTLD delegations probably not delayed by US government..
If the US government shuts down tonight, would that delay the delegation of new gTLDs? Probably not, from what I gather. For reasons beyond the ken of most sane people*, the US legislature is currently deadlocked on a...
3854d1524PIR rebrands, talks up “Facebook-like” new gTLDs
Public Interest Registry is dropping the .org from its primary branding in preparation for the launch of its new gTLDs. CEO Brian Cute said that branding the registry around .org made a lot of sense when we were a single...
3854d353TLDH has the end in sight, but no revenue
Top Level Domain Holdings made less than $12,000 in the first half of the year, but says its new gTLD business may start generating revenue in the fourth quarter. In its interim financial results, published this morning,...
3854d375Name Collisions: Unanticipated Effects [Guest Post]
I attended the TLD Security Forum sponsored by Artemis in San Francisco five weeks ago. By happenstance, I became involved in a small group formed after the meeting that dedicated themselves to replicating the Interisle...
3854d377Le service d'hébergement de machines virtuelles de Numergy
Profitant d'une offre d'essai gratuite (qui semble toujours d'actualité (https://www.numergy.com/tarifs-cloud-essai-gratuit)), j'ai testé le service de machines virtuelles (IaaS) de Numergy (https://www.numergy.com/).
3854d369On ne « tombe » pas dans le domaine public
Le passage des œuvres de Guillaume Apollinaire dans le domaine public (94 ans après sa mort (http://romainelubrique.org/apollinaire-domaine-public), ce qui donne une idée du niveau de délire atteint par le droit...
3854d26Tweets of September 30 2013
Sure way to fail with DNSSEC: manually copying signed zones over and reloading BIND. And yes: doing just that. Mon Sep 30 08:04:12 +0000 2013
3855d323Upcoming(?) changes in Go DNS
Some upcoming ( NOT MERGED YET! ) changes that can be found in the net branch. Why these changes? Well I never liked the function ExchangeConn and I wanted to find a balance between out-of-the-box convenience and power...
3856d392Crocker to speak at second gTLD collisions summit
ICANN chair Steve Crocker is among a packed line-up of speakers for an event on Tuesday that will address the potential security risks of name collisions in the new gTLD program. It s the second TLD Security Forum, which...
3856d345Samsung signs the first dot-brand gTLD contract
Samsung has become the first company to sign a Registry Agreement for a dot-brand gTLD. As of yesterday, the electronics giant is now officially contracted with ICANN to run .삼성, its name in its native Korean. It s...
3856d428RFC 7033: WebFinger
Ce RFC décrit (même si elle n'est pas présentée ainsi) la deuxième version du protocole WebFinger. La première était informelle et permettait de récupérer de l'information sur une personne ou une organisation à partir de...
3857d369RFC 1996: A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone...
Avant ce RFC, il n'existait pas de mécanisme dans le DNS pour prévenir les serveurs esclaves de la disponibilité de nouvelles données chez le serveur maître. Il fallait attendre que l'esclave contacte le maître...
3857d359newdomains.org ticket compo winners announced
The winners of the recent DI prize draw, with three free tickets for the newdomains.org conference at stake, have been confirmed. To enter the competition, you simply had to leave a comment on DI completing the sentence...
3857d511How To Securely Transfer A DNSSEC-Signed Domain Between...
What happens if you want to transfer a DNSSEC-signed domain from one DNS operator to another? Perhaps you are consolidating domains into one operator or the new operator has better security or is less expensive It turns...
3859d365Authentic Web wants to be dot-brands’ pocket registrar
Toronto-based start-up Authentic Web launched today with a set of workflow automation tools for dot-brand gTLD registries. Because ICANN requires all new gTLDs, even the closed ones, to make registrations via accredited...
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