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3967d393‘Whistleblower’ claims cronyism and fear at ICANN
An anonymous individual claiming to be an ICANN staffer has warned the organization s board of directors about senior-level cronyism and a climate of fear among employees. However, DI s private conversations with other...
3967d424Donuts hires the face of the new gTLD program
Portfolio gTLD applicant Donuts has hired Michele Jourdan, who until last week was head of new gTLD communications at ICANN. She has joined the company as director of sales and marketing, according to her LinkedIn...
3968d378OpenDNSSEC 1.3.14
Version 1.3.14 of OpenDNSSEC has now been released: Updates: OPENDNSSEC-367: ods-ksmutil: Require user confirmation if the algorithm for  a key is changed in a policy (as this rollover is not handled cleanly)...
3968d392Ombudsman probing “late” new gTLD objections
ICANN s Ombudsman Chris LaHatte has received complaints about some new gTLD objections that were apparently filed after the submission deadline but are being processed anyway. Two companies have officially called on...
3968d365Healthcare dot-brand drops out of gTLD race
WellPoint, a major North American health insurance provider, has dropped its application for .anthem, a proposed dot-brand gTLD. It s the fifth application to be withdrawn this week and the 64th to be withdrawn overall....
3969d379La panne de la RATP et le DNS
Aujourd'hui, le site Web de la RATP, " (http://www.ratp.fr/)" a été en panne de 11h à 16h environ (la reprise a été cahotique, avec de nombreuses rechutes jusqu'en soirée). Que s'est-il passé ? Comme pour chaque panne...
3969d382Mixfix parsing / chain-associative operators
Earlier this evening I was reading about parsing user-defined mixfix operators in Agda . Mixfix operators are actually quite common though they are usually called something else. The Danielsson and Norell paper...
3969d385Afilias dumps .mail bid, and three other new gTLD...
Four new gTLD applications have been withdrawn so far this week, including the first to come from .info operator Afilias. Afilias has pulled its bid for .mail the second applicant to do so due to the number of...
3970d384RFC 6946: Processing of IPv6 "atomic" fragments
Une particularité amusante de la gestion de la fragmentation dans IPv6 est qu'un paquet peut très bien avoir un en-tête de fragmentation sans être fragmenté du tout. Cela se nomme un « fragment atomique » (le terme est...
3970d339RFC 6949: RFC Series Format Requirements and Future...
Cela fait longtemps que le format des RFC est critiqué, à l'IETF ou ailleurs. Pour d'excellentes raisons (détaillées plus loin), ce format est très ancien et très rigide, sans concessions aux gadgets modernes. Il n'a pas...
3971d380Global standards group highlights silliness of GAC’s IGO...
The International Organization for Standardization, known as ISO, doesn t want to have its acronym blocked in new gTLDs by the International Sugar Organization. ISO has told ICANN in a letter that demands for special...
3971d394Massive internet policy database planned in Europe
The European Commission plans to build a massive web site and database of information related to global internet policy-making. The Global Internet Policy Observatory, which is still in the planning stages, would be a...
3971d379URS providers to get contracts
The companies handling Uniform Rapid Suspension domain name disputes will be bound to a contract, ICANN has said. In a follow-up Q A document from the public forum session at the ICANN meeting in Beijing last month,...
3971d407Kiss-of-death gTLD applicant asks ICANN to reject...
One of the only two companies to receive formal, consensus, kiss-of-death Governmental Advisory Committee advice last month has called on ICANN to reject it as untimely . GCCIX WLL of Bahrain applied for .gcc to be an...
3971d372TLDH weighs in on “terrifying” GAC advice
Top Level Domain Holdings is the latest portfolio applicant to slate the Governmental Advisory Committee s advice on new gTLDs, calling it troubling in principle and terrifying in practice . The company, which applied...
3972d460Second .online gTLD bid and third ‘guardian’ dot-brand...
Directi appears to be the last man standing in the three-way tie-up for .online, following the latest new gTLD withdrawals. Namecheap has dropped its .online application, closely following Tucows, which dropped its bid a...
3972d428DNSSEC and DNS Security Talks At DNS-OARC Spring Forum...
Can t get to Dublin, Ireland, to attend the DNS-OARC Spring Forum 2013 but interested in all the DNS and DNSSEC-related talks?  The good news is that there is a webcast / livestream of the event via Adobe Connect at:...
3972d468New gTLDs applicants should brace for GAC delays
New gTLD applicants affected by Governmental Advisory Committee advice may be about to find that their launch runway is quite a bit longer than they hoped. That s the message that seems to be coming through subtly from...
3974d40556 more new gTLDs pass evaluation
ICANN s evaluators have passed 56 more new gTLD applications through Initial Evaluation. The latest weekly batch of published results cover bids for the following strings: .aig, .airforce, .art, .axa, .baby, .basketball,...
3974d397Will you be too sexy for .sexy?
Uniregistry is planning to implement strict sexiness restrictions in its forthcoming .sexy gTLD, according to a fake press release we ve just received. Uniregistry, the portfolio gTLD applicant run by domainer Frank...
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