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4129d349Anger as ICANN delays key new gTLDs milestone
New gTLD applicants could barely disguise their anger tonight, after learning that ICANN has delayed a key deliverable in the new gTLD program originally due in October until March. On a webinar this evening, program...
4129d393Policy versus implementation… shouldn’t that be complexity..
ICANN has just published a paper that attempts to frame what is policy and what is implementation. Now, if you re a normal person, your natural response would be who cares? . But if you re an Icannite, chances are you re...
4129d280Still Time To Submit A DNSSEC Speaking Proposal for ICANN...
As we mentioned previously, there will be another DNSSEC Deployment Workshop on April 10, 2013, as part of ICANN 46 in Beijing, China. The program committee is still open to receiving proposals if you would like to be...
4129d381Don’t panic! Crocker clarifies “end of year” new gTLD...
ICANN chairman Steve Crocker has clarified comments made during a recent interview in which he said he expected new gTLDs to be delegated towards the end of the year . Crocker told DI today that ICANN plans to put new...
4130d384In major snub, Verisign refuses to let ICANN audit .net
Verisign has delivered a significant blow to ICANN s authority by refusing to take part in its contractual compliance audit program. The snub runs a risk of scuppering ICANN s plans to make compliance a cornerstone of...
4130d366RFC 6772: Geolocation Policy: A Document Format for...
Toute information sur la position physique d'une personne ou d'une machine (la géolocalisation) est évidemment très sensible et il est normal que les considérations de protection de la vie privée jouent un grand rôle dès...
4130d356RFC 6841: A Framework for DNSSEC Policies and DNSSEC...
Comme pour toutes les techniques de sécurité informatique, DNSSEC n'est efficace que si son déploiement s'accompagne de bonnes pratiques de sécurité. Il ne suffit pas de générer une clé et de signer la zone ! Pour...
4130d356Crocker sees new gTLDs going live “towards the end of the...
Not exactly the news that new gTLD applicants wanted to hear. ICANN chairman Steve Crocker has put a tentative date of towards the end of the year for the first approval and delegation of new gTLDs, months later than...
4130d336OpenDNSSEC 1.4.0rc1
Version 1.4.0rc1 of OpenDNSSEC has now been released. This version is recommended for testing only, not for use in production environments. Updates: OPENDNSSEC-359: Remove eppclient Documentation: OpenDNSSEC V1.4...
4131d375Fight over new sports gTLDs gets real ugly
The battle for contested new gTLDs .rugby and .basketball is turning nasty. Roar Domains, a New Zealand marketing firm whose gTLD applications are backed by the official international bodies for both sports, is promising...
4131d322.info and .biz contracts extended after expiring
Afilias and Neustar have had their key gTLD registry contracts temporarily extended after they expired on New Year s Eve. The .info and .biz agreements, which were both signed with ICANN in 2006, both ended on December...
4132d338DI to participate in New York new gTLD conference
The agenda for the two-day Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress in New York this March has been published, and I m happy to say that DI is involved. The Congress is being organized by Momentum Consulting Group and I...
4132d350Second premium .info auction goes live on Go Daddy
Go Daddy and Afilias are auctioning off a second batch of premium dictionary-word .info domain names. The registrar has just gone live with a list of 138 domains, including stuff like home.info, autos.info, boat.info,...
4132d356Baseball league buys Rockies.com for $1.2m
Major League Baseball has purchased the domain name rockies.com for $1.2 million, according to the deal s broker, Venture Capital Group Ltd. The domain did belong to Tourism Canadian Rockies, which plans to move to...
4132d347Episode 31
In this, their inaugural episode for 2013, Cricket and Matt answer a question from the mysterious Joe (if that is his real name) about the differences between BIND s stub zone and conditional forwarding features,...
4133d337RFC 6819: OAuth 2.0 Threat Model and Security...
Le protocole d'autorisation sur le Web OAuth version 2 est riche, voire complexe. Son cadre général est décrit dans le RFC 6749. Et ce nouveau RFC documente les questions de sécurité liées à OAuth v2. Quelles sont les...
4133d400Faire réaliser des mesures par les sondes Atlas
Le réseau des sondes Atlas, créé et géré par le RIPE-NCC, couvre l'Europe de petites machines connectées à l'internet et qui effectuent en permanence des mesures diverses. Les Atlas ne savaient faire au début que des...
4133d299tco.census.gov Failing DNSSEC Validation
The domain tco.census.gov is currently failing DNSSEC validation. This is because the domain RRSIGs have expired. The domain owners have been contacted and made aware of the issue. The DNSViz report of this failure can...
4133d314playragnarok.com Failing DNSSEC Validation
The domain playragnarok.com is currently failing DNSSEC validation. This is because the domain RRSIGs have expired. The domain owners have been contacted and made aware of the issue. The DNSViz report of this failure can...
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