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4045d366ICANN to pay $2 million to keep Trademark Clearinghouse...
ICANN is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to helping new gTLDs be successful, committing $2 million to keep Trademark Clearinghouse access free for registrars. While TMCH pricing for trademark owners is...
4045d342ICANN to water down contract powers with “Public Interest...
ICANN has made a few tweaks to its proposed unilateral-right-to-amend powers in order to fend off open hostility from registries, registrars and new gTLD applicants. The organization is set to announce Public Interest...
4045d397ICANN: about 274 new gTLD objections filed
There have been roughly 274 formal objections against new gTLD applications, ICANN said last night. During a webinar with applicants, new gTLD program manager Christine Willet broke down the numbers. There have been: 67...
4045d343Tucows, Directi and Namecheap to combine .online gTLD bids
Three applicants for the .online gTLD appear to have settled their differences in what I believe is the first public example of new gTLD contention set consolidation. Tucows, Directi and Namecheap said today that that...
4045d332APNIC Offering DNSSEC Training in Mongolia April 1-3
We noticed that our friends over at APNIC are offering DNSSEC training in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, from April 1-3 and since, well, we ve never written anything about Mongolia on this site before, we figured we ought to do...
4045d343Chutzpah alert! “Tube” domainer objects to Google’s .tube...
Remember the mystery gTLD applicant that had promised to campaign against Google s closed generic gTLD applications? It turns out the company behind the campaign is actually Latin American Telecom, one of the three...
4045d363Video: Emil Ivov about Jitsi, a VoIP softphone supporting...
The Jitsi audio/video softphone and messaging client supports both IPv6 and DNSSEC.  How did it get started with IPv6 support?  Why did it add DNSSEC? What value does DNSSEC add to VoIP and IP communications?   We first...
4046d332Big News from OpenDNS
When I shared some stats earlier this year about our terrific 2012 growth , we already had big plans in the works to take OpenDNS to new heights. This morning we made two big announcements about how we’ll make it happen.
4046d303[INFOGRAPHIC] How Umbrella Security Labs Delivers Advanced..
A behind-the-scenes look at how Big Data and data mining techniques are driving advanced Umbrella malware protection.
4046d400Video: What are “Negative Trust Anchors” for DNSSEC?
What are negative trust anchors for DNSSEC? What function do they perform? Why do we need them? In this video, Dan York interviews Jason Livingood about his Internet-Draft on this topic and answers these and other...
4046d366A quick note on cable modems and "Serious Switches"
Posting this so someone else might find it and save a day of headbashing. I have a Ziggo Motorola cable modem which acts as a bridge. Recently, I revamped our home routing infrastructure (because our old 4-port...
4047d414RFC 6908: Deployment Considerations for Dual-Stack Lite
DS-Lite est une des nombreuses techniques de transition / co-existence IPv4 / IPv6. Elle est normalisée dans le RFC 6333. Ce nouveau RFC se penche plutôt sur des problèmes opérationnels : comment déployer DS-Lite, quels...
4047d378Neustar leading the new gTLD back-end scores so far
New gTLD applications backed by registry service provider Neustar scored the highest results in the first batch of Initial Evaluation results. All 27 of the applications that have had their IE results revealed by ICANN...
4047d374Directi sells 4,000 .pw domains in first half hour
PW Registry, the Direci unit looking after the .pw registry, said it received orders for 4,000 domain names in its first 30 minutes of general availability today. Disappointing? It s certainly not up to the standard of,...
4047d399Chehade to play hard-ball over unilateral right to amend?
ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade has reportedly indicated that the unilateral right to amend powers ICANN wants to put in its registry and registrar contracts are non-negotiable. Speaking at a meeting of the Association of...
4047d273KSRegistry discloses 97% passing score for new gTLD
KSRegistry, the registry services provider arm of Key-Systems, says it scored almost 97% on the first new gTLD application it s involved in that has passed Initial Evaluation. The company said today that Deutsche...
4047d387Slides: DANE, the next big thing after DNSSEC
What is the DANE protocol all about? How does it protect Internet communication? How does it relate to SSL/TLS certificates? What is wrong with the Web s public key infrastructure (PKI), anyway? At a recent cybersecurity...
4048d373Five interesting nuggets from the first batch of gTLD...
ICANN gave many in the industry cause for celebration on Friday when it released its first batch of 27 new gTLD applications that have passed Initial Evaluation. The plan is to release 30 per week, ramping up to 100 at...
4048d444RFC 5575: Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules
Lorsqu'on a un grand réseau compliqué, diffuser à tous les routeurs des règles de filtrage, par exemple pour faire face à une attaque par déni de service, peut être complexe. Il existe des logiciels permettant de gérer...
4048d274How much does Norton SafeConnect cost?
Why the secrecy? I don't want a relationship with Symantec just to know the price structure. https://dns.norton.com/dnsweb/dnsForBusiness.do submitted by hieronymous-cowherd [link] [comment]
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