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4081d407New hires at Donuts, DomainDiction and 101domain
It s been a busy week in the industry for executive switcheroos, with Donuts, DomainDiction and 101domain all announcing senior-level hires. Today it emerged that Elaine Pruis, a long-time key member of the Minds +...
4081d335It is hard to test a DNSSEC root trust anchor rollover
ICANN are running a consultation on their plans for replacing the DNSSEC root key . I wondered if there was any way to be more confident that the new key is properly trusted before the old key is retired. My vague idea...
4081d339Spring Cleaning: Five IT Tips to Keep Your Business in...
It's said that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In IT security, it's more like a ton.
4082d353RFC 6885: Stringprep Revision and PRECIS Problem Statement
Dans bien des protocoles, il y a besoin de comparer deux chaînes de caractères, pour voir si elles sont égales. Par exemple, un protocole d'authentification va comparer un identificateur à ceux enregistrés dans sa base,...
4082d409Amazon and Google hit as Independent Objector files 24 new..
Alain Pellet, the new gTLD program s Independent Objector, has filed 24 official objections against new gTLD applications. Five of its 13 Community Objections are against dot-brands that have geographical meanings Amazon...
4082d379Why Richland Community College prefers malware protection...
RCC IT manager calls Umbrella Enterprise, "the only solution that is truly set-it-and-forget-it"
4083d364RFC 6892: The 'describes' Link Relation Type
Dans le registre des types de liens (http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xml), il y avait déjà un "describedby" qui indiquait une ressource Web décrivant la ressource courante. Désormais, il y a...
4083d401Defensive registrations with Donuts could be 95% cheaper...
Portfolio gTLD applicant Donuts plans to offer trademark owners defensive registrations at 5% to 10% of the cost of a normal domain name registration, co-founder Richard Tindal said today. Speaking at the Digital...
4083d422Two more gTLD bids kicked out of the program, but .kids...
Two more applications have been rejected from the new gTLD program, after they tried and failed to have their application fees subsidized by ICANN s Applicant Support Program. Three gTLDs were submitted for financial...
4083d408Google-backed new gTLD industry group appears at...
The formative domain name industry trade association that DI has blogged about a few times recently has found itself a web site. The Google-backed initiative can be found now at WhatDomain.org, which currently carries a...
4083d405Become an OpenDNS moderator and join a passionate...
Become an OpenDNS moderator and help make the Internet safer for millions of people around the world.
4083d388Confusion reigns over three “hijacked” ccTLDs
Control over three ccTLDs is currently up in the air due to the alleged hijacking of one of the registry operator s domain names. The TLDs for the Turks and Caicos Islands (.tc), the British Virgin Islands (.vg) and...
4083d399ICANN accredits .tk registry as registrar
Freedom Registry, the company behind the oft-criticized .tk domain registry, seems to have been accredited as an ICANN registrar. The new registrar business goes by the name OpenTLD. Its domain name currently bounces...
4083d408Melbourne IT gets out of brand protection with $157m sale...
Corporation Service Company has acquired Melbourne IT s flagship digital brand management service for a ridiculously expensive AUD 153.5 million ($157m). The shock news takes Melbourne out of the high-margin defensive...
4083d485Knot-DNS: Dynamic Updates and a bit of RRL
A year has passed since I last looked at the Knot DNS server , so it's time to re-visit it; a lot has happened, and there are two features I want to single out: support for RFC 2136 ( dynamic DNS updates ) and a bit of...
4084d380Résolution de noms : les programmeurs vont-ils avoir de...
La vie du programmeur d'applications réseau n'est pas facile. Il a souvent besoin de résoudre des noms en adresses IP. Il existe pour cela des API standards depuis longtemps. Mais elles ne donnent pas toute l'information...
4084d356RFC 6855: IMAP Support for UTF-8
Successeur du RFC 5738, voici la normalisation de la gestion d'Unicode par le protocole IMAP d'accès aux boîtes aux lettres.
4084d307RFC 6858: Simplified POP/IMAP Downgrading for...
Lorsqu'un message complètement internationalisé (avec en-têtes en Unicode, adresse d'expéditeur en Unicode, etc) est stocké sur un serveur de messagerie, et qu'un client IMAP ou POP veut le récupérer, que faire si le dit...
4084d351RFC 6857: Post-delivery Message Downgrading for...
Ce nouveau RFC normalise un mécanisme de repli (downgrade) lorsqu'un serveur POP ou IMAP a reçu des courriers entièrement internationalisés (courrier-entierement-internationalise.html) et qu'un client POP ou IMAP de...
4084d419coffeecupmonument.com Failing DNSSEC Validation
The domain coffeecupmonument.com is currently failing DNSSEC validation. This is because there are published DS records, but no corresponding DNSKEY records. The domain owners have been contacted and made aware of the...
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