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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3964d | 430 | Hong Kong telco drops dot-brand gTLD bid Hong Kong Telecom has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .香港電訊, the Chinese-script version of its brand. The proposed single-registrant gTLD was uncontested, with no objections or Governmental Advisory Committee... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 3965d | 410 | Automated Coverity security scanning of PowerDNS Projects Hi everybody, PowerDNS values the security of the internet, and strives to keep its programs as secure as possible. To further this cause, we ve run our code through the Coverity Development Testing suite, and as a... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3965d | 397 | Microsoft objects to Google’s dotless domains plan Microsoft has strongly urged ICANN to reject Google s plan for a dotless .search gTLD. In a letter sent a couple of weeks ago and published last night, the company says that Google risks putting the security and... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3965d | 385 | Directi launches pre-reg site for .host gTLD Directi is to offer preregistration for its uncontested gTLD applications, and it s starting with .host. The company will accept expressions of interest from potential registrants from June 17, where it has a booth at... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3965d | 430 | Uniregistry is too .sexy for new gTLD objection .SX Registry has asked for its formal objection to Uniregistry s .sexy gTLD application to be withdrawn, we understand. It s believed to be among the four objections, according to ICANN, that have been dismissed by the... |
| Stéphane Bortzmeyer | 3965d | 385 | DNS man-in-the-middle at the Krasnapolsky hotel in... Hotel networks are famous for their brokenness. It seems their network managers are fond of always finding some new and clever ways to break things. The famous Krasnapolsky hotel in Amsterdam, home of many RIPE meetings,... |
| Stéphane Bortzmeyer | 3965d | 374 | Journée ordinaire sur l'Internet, une nouvelle attaque par.. C'est tous les jours qu'il y a des problèmes sur l'Internet. par exemple, hier soir, mon système de surveillance (icinga.html) me prévient qu'une des machines qui porte ce blog n'est plus joignable (les requêtes HTTP... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3966d | 376 | China pushes .pw to over 250,000 names Directi s .PW Registry has taken over 250,000 domain registrations in the two and a half months since it launched, largely thanks to growth in China. According to recent DomainTools research, Chinese registrars such as... |
| ISOC Deploy360 DNSSEC | 3966d | 353 | Seeking DNSSEC Speaking Proposals For ICANN 47 DNSSEC... Interested in sharing your experience implementing DNSSEC? Have a new tool or service for DNSSEC you would like to demonstrate? Are you experiencing a challenge with getting DNSSEC implemented that you think the larger... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3966d | 377 | Late new gTLD objections “not unfair” ICANN Ombudsman Chris LaHatte has ruled that the decision to accept formal new gTLD objections sent one minute after the filing deadline does not create unfairness . The decision is a blow to at least one applicant,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3968d | 293 | Engineering Russia’s Cyrillic revolution [Guest Post] Russian domain entrepreneur Sergey Sharikov has ambitions to spread the use of his language s alphabet on the Internet far beyond its current state. To do that, the use of Cyrillic web addresses must increase. But why... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3968d | 375 | Watch .club wins its new gTLD for $[censored] As we reported earlier in the week, .CLUB Domains was one of the first companies to win its new gTLD auction and now the company has published a short video of the moment the auction closed. The first reaction of CEO... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3969d | 378 | Big week for new gTLDs as 114 apps pass ICANN has just released this week s Initial Evaluation results and it s the biggest dump to date, with 114 applications getting through to the next stage of the process. We re now up to 628 passes, which is roughly one... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3969d | 383 | Atallah shunted sideways in ICANN exec rejig ICANN has a new COO, after incumbent Akram Atallah was moved into a new role as head of a new Generic Domains Division. The organization has hired Susanna Bennett to replace him. She is currently with Jazz Technologies... |
| DNS reddit | 3969d | 325 | PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.2 released submitted by cmeerw
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| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3969d | 339 | Six private new gTLD auctions raise $9m We now know (roughly) how much a new gTLD is worth. The new gTLD contention sets for .club, .college, .luxury, .photography, .red, and .vote have been settled in a series of auctions this week that raised over $9... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3969d | 365 | Private auction settles .club fight .CLUB Domains has won the right to launch the .club gTLD at a private auction against two other applicants, according to an announcement from the company. The company, chiefed by Tucows and Hostopia founder Colin... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3969d | 337 | L’Oreal’s dot-brand bites the dust Beauty products maker L Oreal has withdrawn its new gTLD application for .loreal. I did not see this one coming. L Oreal is among the most prolific applicants for new gTLDs from the offline world, applying for 14 strings... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 3969d | 379 | Plural gTLDs could be a casualty as ICANN accepts big... ICANN has accepted nine pieces of Governmental Advisory Committee advice pertaining to new gTLDs, essentially killing off two applications and putting question marks over many more. Notably, the question of whether... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 3969d | 398 | Recursor 3.5.2 released Released June 7th, 2013 Downloads: Official download page native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This is a stability and bugfix update to 3.5.1. It contains important fixes that improve operation for certain... |
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