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4011d417Directi fighting “massive” .pw spam outbreak
Recently relaunched budget TLD .pw is being widely abused by spammers already, but registry manager Directi said it s enforcing a zero tolerance policy. Anti-spam software makers and users have over the last week...
4011d383Web.com CEO talks “defensive” .web strategy
Number-two registrar Web.com applied for the new gTLD .web in order to protect a trademark, but it s open to partnerships to secure and manage the string, according to its CEO. But the .web contention set will take a...
4011d385ICANN to consider GAC Advice next week
ICANN s board of directors is to discuss its response to the Governmental Advisory Committee s sweeping new gTLDs advice at a meeting next week. The New gTLD Program Committee has Plan for responding to the GAC advice...
4011d412Three gTLDs that Google doesn’t treat as gTLDs
Google this week reportedly updated its Webmaster Tools service to treat more ccTLDs as non-geography-specific, but it still seems to be overlooking two gTLDs altogether. According to its refreshed FAQ, only 19 gTLDs are...
4011d351Speaking Live On VUC Podcast About DNSSEC And VoIP/UC on...
Would you like to chat with me (Dan York) about DNSSEC and DANE and how they might work with voice-over-IP (VoIP) and unified communications (UC)? Or would you just like to listen to my views on the subject? If so, you...
4011d304Two compelling applications for universal surveillance
Face recognition is pretty good now: you can upload a picture to Facebook and it will automatically identify who is in the frame. Combine this with Google Glass and the idea of lifelogging: what can these technologies do...
4011d439Verisign (or a domainer) needs to put this on a T-shirt
If I don t see somebody wearing this on a T-shirt at the next ICANN meeting I will be very upset. Credit: an anonymous artist. Related posts: Is Ella Koon the hottest Go Daddy Girl yet? Domainer Jan Barta invests in...
4011d361ICM sees 20-fold increase in registrations after sharp...
ICM Registry says its rate of domain registrations increased 20-fold during the first day .xxx has been on sale at .com prices. The company took 1,000 registrations at the new $7.85-a-year registry fee since it revealed...
4012d364PowerDNS completes move to GitHub!
Hi everybody, After a serious amount of work, we ve completed the move to GitHub. We have successfully migrated all tickets, branches, tags, commits, attachments and patches from our old Subversion and Trac servers. This...
4012d335RFC 6944: Applicability Statement: DNS Security (DNSSEC)...
Mais quel algorithme de cryptographie choisir pour mes signatures DNSSEC, se demande l'ingénieur système ? Il y a bien un registre IANA...
4012d465Confirmed – Google’s Public DNS Now Performs DNSSEC...
It s official Google s Public DNS service is now performing DNSSEC validation for all DNS queries by default! When news broke back on March 19 that Google had enabled DNSSEC validation on its Public DNS service, there...
4012d376Welcome!
Welcome to the new dedicated PowerDNS blog! Previously we had various personal blogs that mentioned PowerDNS a lot, but not everything is under one roof. Most relevant posts have been copied to this site already. If you...
4013d396YouPorn spanks ICM as .xxx prices slashed
YouPorn owner Manwin Licensing scored a PR coup in its lawsuit against ICM Registry today, when the .xxx registry agreed to steep financial concessions in order to settle the lawsuit. One of the effects of the...
4013d385PowerDNS now has its own dedicated blog
Dear readers, PowerDNS now has its own blog, which can be found on http://blog.powerdns.com . This blog will continue to sprout occasional programming oddities and observations. But if you want to read about...
4013d399ICANN issues new gTLD dispute RFPs
ICANN has issued two requests for proposals for providers to administer dispute resolution services for the new gTLD program. It s looking for outfits to manage the Registry Restrictions Dispute Resolution Procedure...
4013d378Donuts not pursuing new gTLD joint ventures
Following the news that Uniregistry and Top Level Domain Holdings are to work together on the .country new gTLD, larger portfolio applicant Donuts has said it s not interested in similar arrangements. While not entirely...
4013d381.love dies as applicants pull five more new gTLD bids
Jewelry maker Richemont is the latest new gTLD applicant to withdraw one of its bids, yanking its application for .love. The proposed gTLD was one of 14 single-registrant namespaces applied for by the company, and also...
4013d347RFC 6888: Common requirements for Carrier Grade NATs...
Qu'on les approuve (ce qui n'est pas mon cas) ou pas, les CGN, ces gros routeurs NAT installés dans le réseau du FAI et gérant des centaines ou des milliers de clients, sont d'ores et déjà une réalité douloureuse dans de...
4013d367RFC 6887: Port Control Protocol (PCP)
Aujourd'hui, l'utilisateur de l'Internet ne bénéficie que rarement d'une connexion neutre, d'un simple tuyau le connectant à toutes les autres machines de l'Internet. La plupart du temps, il est au contraire bloqué...
4013d383RFC 6929: Remote Authentication Dial In User Service...
RADIUS, un protocole utilisé pour l'authentification (et la configuration) d'accès à l'Internet, est ancien et marche toujours. Lorsque vous accédez à l'Internet depuis chez vous, sans vous en rendre compte, vous avez...
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