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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stéphane Bortzmeyer | 4017d | 668 | Le DNS va t-il utiliser de plus en plus souvent TCP ? Le DNS utilise traditionnellement surtout UDP comme protocole de transport. TCP est parfaitement légal mais, en pratique, il a été cantonné aux transferts de zone et à quelques requêtes où la réponse était trop grosse... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4019d | 563 | Two failures among latest 44 new gTLD results ICANN has released its weekly batch of new gTLD Initial Evaluation results and it includes the program s second and third failures. Two dot-brand applications .olayangroup and .mckinsey, filed by Olayan Investments and... |
| DNS reddit | 4019d | 306 | Is there a service that will notify you when a dns has... I am a Web Developer mostly. But part of that often involves me doing DNS work for my clients. I find myself alot of the time when i am updating DNS records, constantly checking to see when the records have updated... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4019d | 380 | Donuts puts 63 new gTLDs to private auction, but at least... Donuts has committed 63 of its 307 new gTLD applications to a private auction next month, but at least 17 of them are doomed already because rival Uniregistry won t take part. Donuts, which does not want to enter into... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 4019d | 367 | RIPE 66, PowerDNS and DNS64/NAT64 Last week we visited the RIPE 66 conference in Dublin where Bert Hubert presented on how to make an application fully IPv6 compliant (video here). After the presentation, Terry Froy from Spilsby Internet Solutions... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4019d | 396 | ‘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... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4019d | 428 | Donuts 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... |
| OpenDNSSEC | 4020d | 381 | OpenDNSSEC 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)... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4021d | 396 | Ombudsman 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... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4021d | 376 | Healthcare 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.... |
| Stéphane Bortzmeyer | 4021d | 389 | La 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... |
| Tony Finch | 4021d | 391 | Mixfix 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... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4021d | 399 | Afilias 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... |
| Stéphane Bortzmeyer | 4022d | 390 | RFC 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... |
| Stéphane Bortzmeyer | 4022d | 345 | RFC 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... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4023d | 387 | Global 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... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4023d | 399 | Massive 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... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4023d | 383 | URS 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,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4024d | 411 | Kiss-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... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4024d | 376 | TLDH 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... |
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