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3875d203Short kernel compile howto for Debian/Ubuntu
Download the kernel's source from http://kernel.org ; Unpack it somewhere (will use ~/src/linux-3.11 here); Copy the config from the distribution over; cp / boot / config - 3.8.0.30 - generic ~/ src / linux - 3.11 / ....
3875d350Exposé général sur le DNS à la Cantine
Hier, lundi 9 septembre, j'ai eu le plaisir de faire un exposé général sur le DNS (c'est quoi, à quoi ça sert, ça fait mal ?) pour la toute première occurrence des conférences « Il était une fois... Internet...
3875d332New DNSSEC Deployment Maps Available
Curious to see where DNSSEC is being deployed around the world? I m pleased to note that we ve updated the DNSSEC deployment maps we have available at: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/dnssec/maps/ These maps are...
3875d421Government forces Nominet into ludicrous porn review
Should Nominet bad dirty words from the .uk namespace? Obviously not, but that s nevertheless the subject of a formal policy review announced by the government today, forced by pressure from the British government and...
3875d386Angry Birds backing two Chinese-language gTLDs
The Finnish/Irish new gTLD applicant TLD Registry Ltd has signed two ICANN Registry Agreements, covering the Chinese strings .在线 (.online) and .中文网 (a phrase meaning Chinese language website ). The deals were signed...
3878d383Famous Four says that Demand Media’s .cam should be...
Demand Media s application for .cam should be rejected because it lost a String Confusion Objection filed by .com registry Verisign, according to rival applicant Famous Four Media. The process in the applicant guidebook...
3878d372Five gTLDs fail the geo test, but .banque passes IE
Five new gTLD applications failed their Initial Evaluation this week after being ruled geographic , according to results just published by ICANN. The big name failure is Tata Group, the $100 billion-a-year Indian...
3878d364No, ICANN isn’t moving to Switzerland
There s a rumor going around this morning that ICANN is planning to up sticks from its US base in California and become subject to Swiss jurisdiction instead. While this would be a huge change for ICANN, which has been...
3879d391Teething troubles for TMCH testing
With the first new gTLD delegation likely just a matter of weeks away, registries and registrars are reporting problems getting access to the Trademark Clearinghouse for testing purposes. ICANN launched a OT E...
3879d446.xxx sales spike 1,000% during discount
ICM Registry saw an over 1,000% spike in .xxx domain name registrations in May, during which it offered new registrations at a steep discount over its regular price. The numbers were still relatively small. The registry...
3880d366Boekbespreking: Doe eens normaal man (in 7 stappen naar...
"Doe eens normaal man (in 7 stappen naar een betere politiek)" van Kustaw Bessems en Dirk Jacob Nieuwboer Laat ik beginnen met zeggen dat ik vind dat dit boek in 250-voud over het Binnenhof verspreid zou moeten worden,...
3880d362dotShabaka Diary — Day 8, Launch Uncertainty
Today, the eighth installment of dotShabaka Registry’s journal, charting its progress towards becoming one of the first new gTLDs to go live, written by general manager Yasmin Omer. Thursday 5 September 2013 Having...
3880d375RFC 6986: GOST R 34.11-2012: Hash Function
Ce RFC documente en anglais une norme russe de l'organisme GOST. GOST R 34.11-2012 est une fonction de condensation cryptographique. Elle pourra notamment être utilisée pour DNSSEC.
3880d365The various factors behind the obesity epidemic
Over the past thirty years we’ve seen the levels of obesity explode in the western world - even in the face of lots of government public health efforts to aid us in becoming thin again. Recently, many of us have become...
3881d329What the Recent SEA Hacks Mean for IT Security
In the past week, we saw a series of DNS-based attacks on high profile domains that caused visitors trying to reach the affected domains to be redirected to IPs under the control of the Syrian Electronic Army. During the...
3881d389Thwart DNS Hijackers: 5 Tips
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3881d388Public Suffix List to get monthly new gTLD updates
New gTLDs are set to be added to the widely used Public Suffix List within a month of signing an ICANN registry agreement, according to PSL volunteer Jothan Frakes. This is pretty good news for new gTLD registries. The...
3881d355Video Interview: Matt Larson on the Future of DNS and...
What needs to be done to get DNSSEC further deployed? What is the future of DNSSEC and DNS in general?  At IETF 87 in Berlin we had a chance to sit down with Matt Larson, formerly of Verisign and now Chief Architect at...
3881d363CentralNic raises $10 million in IPO
New gTLD registry back-end provider CentralNic raised a reported £7 million ($10 million) on its Alternative Investment Market debut yesterday. The IPO, which netted £5 million for the company and $2 million for existing...
3881d411Economist replaces de La Chapelle on ICANN board
ICANN s board of directors is to see one new member in November, with economist Bruno Lanvin replacing former French civil servant Bertrand de La Chapelle. The changes were among several appointments announced by ICANN s...
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