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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4011d | 462 | Second .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... |
| ISOC Deploy360 DNSSEC | 4012d | 432 | DNSSEC 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:... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4012d | 470 | New 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... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4014d | 408 | 56 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,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4014d | 399 | Will 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... |
| ISOC Deploy360 DNSSEC | 4014d | 371 | RIPE66 Next Week: Sessions on IPv6, DNS and Routing Next week in Dublin, Ireland, the RIPE 66 Meeting will take place from May 13-17 and a number of Internet Society technical staff will be onsite including two of us from Deploy360: Jan Zorz and myself (Dan York). The... |
| Stéphane Bortzmeyer | 4014d | 378 | RFC 6943: Issues in Identifier Comparison for Security... Utiliser des identificateurs (noms de domaine, URI, noms d'utilisateur, adresses de courrier, etc) comme clés d'accès à des informations de sécurité est courant. Par exemple, on autorise "machin@truc.example" et lui seul... |
| ISOC Deploy360 DNSSEC | 4014d | 323 | Excellent DNSSEC Sessions Coming Up At DNS-OARC Spring... This weekend begins the "Spring Forum" of the Domain Name System Operations Analysis and Research Center, a.k.a. "DNS-OARC" and it once again represents a gathering of many of the prominent people within the DNS / DNSSEC... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4015d | 451 | This is how stupid the GAC’s new gTLDs advice is For the last few weeks I ve been attempting to write a sensible analysis of the Governmental Advisory Committee s advice on new gTLDs without resorting to incredulity, hyperbole or sarcasm. I failed, so you ll have to... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4015d | 398 | Demand Media slates GAC’s new gTLDs demands Demand Media has become the first new gTLD applicant to put its head above the parapet and tell ICANN that its latest batch of Governmental Advisory Committee advice is unworkable. While its comment on the GAC s Beijing... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4015d | 424 | Interim CEO gets two C-level roles at Go Daddy Go Daddy s management shake-up continues apace, with the news last night that former interim CEO Scott Wagner has been appointed COO and CFO. Wagner comes from KKR, one of three major investors to take a big stake in the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4015d | 422 | .pw sees strongest growth in China The recently launched .pw domain, managed by Directi, is doing particularly well in China, according to an early analysis from DomainTools. The survey of data from name servers supporting 63,736 .pw domains found that... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4015d | 424 | Three more registrars get breach notices ICANN has told three registrars that they re in breach of their contracts and risk losing their accreditations. Two of the companies in receipt of breach notices this week Internet Solutions and DomainSnap have no gTLD... |
| OpenDNS Blog | 4015d | 402 | VIDEO: OpenDNS talks to Bloomberg TV about Syria More details on the technology behind Syria's 19-hour Internet outage. |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 4015d | 401 | A few notification modules for Ansible Brian Coca recently submitted a jabber module for use with Ansible . This module allows an Ansible playbook to connect to an XMPP service and just push out a message, such as "all's well" or "I'm done", when, say, a... |
| OpenDNS Blog | 4016d | 341 | Breaking News: Traffic to Syria drops off the Internet Follow @thinkumbrella on Twitter for updates |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4016d | 326 | Go Daddy building big new facility in Arizona Go Daddy has broken ground on a new 150,000 square foot facility in Tempe, Arizona. The new Global Technology Center will have room for 1,300 technology and customer care employees, the registrar said in a press release... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 4017d | 365 | Contributing PowerDNS tests: unit tests Each and every PowerDNS change is tested by our Jenkins continuous integration setup, as hosted on https://autotest.powerdns.com. The more tests we have, the more valuable this setup becomes, and in this post you can... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4017d | 384 | KSRegistry takes over .gd but questions remain about two... KSRegistry has been appointed the new registry operator for Grenada s ccTLD after bad management at the previous operator led to the whole TLD being hijacked. But the fate of two other hijacked ccTLDs .tc and .vg appears... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4017d | 427 | See all new gTLD Initial Evaluation scores in one place Today, we ve launched a new search tool that enables you to easily view, search and sort new gTLD program Initial Evaluation scores from a single page. The tool, available to DI PRO users here, is designed for those who... |
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