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4083d402Trademark Clearinghouse to open March 26
The Trademark Clearinghouse is set to open its doors for submissions March 26, ICANN will announce today. From that date, trademark owners and their agents will be able to start uploading trademark data, enabling them to...
4084d398AIG withdraws new gTLD bid due to rebrand
The bank American International Group has dropped its application for .chartis, apparently due to a merger-related rebranding. It s the 21st gTLD application to be withdrawn. Dot-Nxt did the legwork to figure out that...
4084d397ICANN to set up “hubs” in Singapore and Istanbul
Fadi Chehade s internationalization strategy for ICANN will see it open up two hub offices, one in Singapore and one in Istanbul, Turkey, according to reports. The two new offices would be not just regional satellites,...
4084d598Lots of messages: MQTT, Pub/Sub, and the Mosquitto broker
Publish/Subscribe queues are fun and useful. I first learned about them when tinkering with Redis a while back. One big drawback of Redis ' Pub/Sub is that Redis project refuses to add some form of transport layer...
4084d388Congo - Une histoire
Ce livre est une histoire complète du Congo, commençant avec la préhistoire (et non pas, comme dans les cours d'histoire du Congo faits pendant la colonisation, avec l'arrivée des Européens...). Très bien documenté,...
4085d401A horse, a donkey, a cow: a genetic diff
So, continuing the series 'if you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail', here we'll bridge the worlds of genetic sequencing and programming and show the diff between a horse, a cow and a donkey. DNA is a lot...
4086d434RFC 6874: Representing IPv6 Zone Identifiers in Address...
Ce court RFC normalise la façon d'indiquer la zone dans un URI contenant une adresse IPv6 littérale.
4086d376RFC 6875: The P2P Network Experiment Council's Activities...
Ce RFC décrit une expérience faite il y a quelques années au Japon pour tester l'efficacité des mécanismes de sélection de pairs dans un réseau pair à pair. Elle montre que cette sélection peut améliorer l'efficacité des...
4086d747Locking Down: Whitelist-Only Mode
The Umbrella product team releases whitelist-only feature for the Umbrella management Dashboard
4086d424Nutty DCA complains to US Congress about .africa
DotConnectAfrica s increasingly unhinged campaign for the .africa gTLD has seen it take the unusual step of complaining to the US Congress about wholesale illegality in the contest. The company also appears to be running...
4086d350Canada Joins The DNSSEC World – Sign Your .CA, Eh?
Congratulations to our friends up North in Canada for the DNSSEC signing of the .CA domain, joining the ever-growing list of top-level domains (TLDs) that are securing their DNS records with DNSSEC!  As Jacques Latour of...
4087d349Mali’s domain could change hands next week
ICANN s board of directors will next week vote on whether to redelegate .ml, the country-code top-level domain for the war-torn nation of Mali, to a new registry operator. The ccTLD is currently delegated to Societe des...
4087d342RFC 6840: Clarifications and Implementation Notes for DNS...
DNSSEC, normalisé notamment dans le RFC 4033 et suivants, est une technologie très complexe et une erreur est vite arrivée lorsqu'on essaie de le mettre en œuvre. L'expérience de plusieurs programmeurs et de nombreux...
4087d356Exposé sur la sécurité d'IPv6 à l'ESGI
Le 21 janvier, à l'ESGI, j'ai fait un exposé sur la sécurité du protocole IPv6.
4087d386Umbrella Security Labs exposes details on the NBC.com...
VIDEO: Umbrella Security Labs shares on details today's attack on NBC.com
4087d291mausandhoffman.com Failing DNSSEC Validation
The domain mausandhoffman.com is currently failing DNSSEC validation. This is because the DS records published do not correspond to any DNSKEYs in the domain. The domain owners have been contacted and made aware of the...
4087d320OpenDNSSEC 1.4.0b3
Version 1.4.0b3 of OpenDNSSEC has now been released. This version is recommended for testing only, not for use in production environments. *NOTE: This release is marked as a beta release (rather than rc3) due to...
4087d379NAF picked to be first URS provider
The US-based National Arbitration Forum has been selected by ICANN as the first provider of Uniform Rapid Supsension services. NAF, which is one half of the longstanding UDRP duopoly, submitted an outstanding proposal...
4087d346"HTTPSEC" and DJB vs DNSSEC
Dan Bernstein recently published slides for a talk criticizing DNSSEC . The talk is framed as a description of the fictitious protocol HTTPSEC, which is sort of what you would get if you applied the DNSSEC architecture...
4088d342OpenDNSSEC 1.3.13
Version 1.3.13 of OpenDNSSEC has now been released: Bugfixes: OPENDNSSEC-388: Signer Engine: Internal serial should take into account  the inbound serial. OPENDNSSEC-242: Signer Engine: Could get stuck on load signconf...
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