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3978d357.club could be a seven-figure new gTLD auction
It looks like the .club gTLD is heading to auction. Donuts two rival applicants for the string seem to have agreed to an auction run by Cramton Associates, while .Club Domains, LLC said it has raised $3.5 million to...
3978d324flyinggiants.com Failing DNSSEC Validation
The domain flyinggiants.com is currently failing DNSSEC validation. This is because RRSIG records in the domain are expired. The domain owners have been contacted and made aware of the issue. The DNSViz report of this...
3978d259flyinggiants.com Failing DNSSEC Validation
The domain flyinggiants.com is currently failing DNSSEC validation. This is because RRSIG records in the domain are expired. The domain owners have been contacted and made aware of the issue. The DNSViz report of this...
3978d372Domains seized as part of Liberty Reserve money laundering..
The US government seized five domain names and is going after dozens more as part of its crackdown on Liberty Reserve, a digital currency provider apparently popular with criminals. The Department of Justice said...
3979d401The True Historie of Trademark+50 and the Deathe of the...
ICANN s decision to press ahead with the Trademark+50 trademark protection mechanism over the objections of much of the community may not be the end of the controversy. Some in the Generic Names Supporting Organization...
3979d370Using stash53 with the MQTT emitter
After introducing stash53 (which logs DNS queries and responses with Logstash ) yesterday, I got quite a bit of positive feedback. There were a couple of queries whether I could explain what people can do with stash53 's...
3979d388Auth 3.3 RC1 released
Downloads: source semi-static packages (rpm, deb, i386, amd64) native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This a stability, bugfix and conformity update to 3.2. It improves interoperability with various validators,...
3980d388A little iCal tool that might make your ICANN life a...
I ve created a little free service that might make it a little easier for regular participants in ICANN public comment periods to keep track of deadlines. It s basically an iCal feed that should automatically update your...
3980d478Server-agnostic logging of DNS queries/responses
DSC is probably the de-facto standard for monitoring queries to DNS servers, certainly in larger environments. It consists of so-called collectors which sniff DNS packets and periodically dump them as XML files into the...
3980d368Two more new gTLD bids bite the dust
ICANN appears to have formally killed off two new gTLD applications that had asked for subsidized application fees. The bids for .idn and .ummah both failed to meet the criteria of ICANN s Applicant Support Program back...
3981d269NLnet Labs Annual Report 2013
We are happy to present NLnet Labs Annual report 2013. In it we present an overview of Labs' various activities and describe their impact.
3982d411MinimaLT, un remplaçant réaliste pour TCP, TLS et IPsec ?
Il y a des chercheurs ambitieux. En voici qui proposent un protocole qui veut remplacer à la fois TCP et TLS et IPsec. Ils exagèrent ? Pas complètement. Le projet est prometteur (mais encore à ses touts débuts) mais il y...
3983d389RFC 6952: Analysis of BGP, LDP, PCEP and MSDP Issues...
Dans le cadre du travail du groupe KARP (http://tools.ietf.org/wg/karp) de l'IETF, consacré à la sécurisation des protocoles de routage de l'Internet, ce RFC est consacré à l'analyse de la sécurité des protocoles de...
3983d442Great news! .TV and .CC Now Signed With DNSSEC
Great news out of Verisign today they have signed the .TV and .CC domains with DNSSEC! Per ICANN s TLD DNSSEC report, this means that we re now at 107 TLDs out of 317 with DS anchors in the root zone.  Great to see! So...
3983d426Now we’re getting serious: 92 new gTLD bids pass
ICANN has stepped up the pace of its Initial Evaluation results schedule, this evening publishing the results of 92 new gTLD applications. Applications for the following strings have passed IE this week: .fishing, .casa,...
3984d366RFC 6963: A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for...
Voici un nouvel espace de nommage pour les URN, "urn:example", qui servira pour les exemples et la documentation.
3984d376Bill Sweetman goes “ninja” with new consulting firm
Bill Sweetman, who recently resigned as head of Tucows domain portfolio business, has reemerged with his own boutique consulting firm, Name Ninja. Sweetman said in a press release that the new company will focus on...
3985d383Le bitsquatting menace-t-il les utilisateurs de...
Vous avez confiance dans les composants électroniques de votre ordinateur ? Vous croyez que, lorsque vous tapez ou sélectionnez "http://www.impots.gouv.fr/", vous vous retrouverez bien là où vous pouvez déclarer vos...
3985d572Porn.com owner buys porn.xxx
PimpRoll, a pornography publisher and owner of porn.com, has bought the domain name porn.xxx from registry manager ICM Registry, it has just been announced. The domain is already live. The site appears to be distinct...
3985d387Is the .home new gTLD doomed? ICANN poses study of...
ICANN has set up a study into whether certain applied-for new gTLD strings pose a security risk to the internet, admitting that some gTLDs may be rejected as a result. Its board of directors on Saturday approved new...
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