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4440d477Today is your first new gTLD deadline
If you re planning to apply to ICANN for more than one new generic top-level domain and you do not already have a TLD Application System account, today might be your last day to get one. Go here to get one. It s been...
4440d346Lord of the DNSSEC
"One Key to rule them all, one Key to find them, one Key to bring them all and in the Resolver bind them." - Modified from Lord of the Rings. Yes, this quote is mine. And I think this Internet Protocol...
4440d363Lord of the DNSSEC
"One Key to rule them all, one Key to find them, one Key to bring them all and in the Resolver bind them." - Modified from Lord of the Rings. Yes, this quote is mine. And I think this Internet Protocol...
4440d309Lord of the DNSSEC
"One Key to rule them all, one Key to find them, one Key to bring them all and in the Resolver bind them." - Modified from Lord of the Rings. Yes, this quote is mine. And I think this Internet Protocol...
4440d315Lord of the DNSSEC
One Key to rule them all, one Key to find them, one Key to bring them all and in the Resolver bind them. - Modified from Lord of the Rings. Yes, this quote is mine. And I think this Internet Protocol Journal has its...
4440d406Lord of the DNSSEC
"One Key to rule them all, one Key to find them, one Key to bring them all and in the Resolver bind them." —Modified from Lord of the Rings. Yes, this quote is mine. And I think this Internet Protocol Journal has its...
4440d542Company claims ownership of 482 new gTLDs
A small New York company has warned new gTLD applicants that it owns 482 top-level domain strings and that ICANN has no authority to award them to anybody else. Name.Space claims it has ownership rights to potentially...
4441d489ROVER, un système alternatif pour sécuriser BGP
Le protocole de routage BGP, sur lequel repose tout l'Internet, est connu pour son absence de sécurité. N'importe quel maladroit (pakistan-pirate-youtube.html) peut annoncer les routes d'un autre opérateur et détourner...
4441d550Field Reports: How do seasoned IT pros handle malware?...
What's an MSP to do when it comes to protecting clients from malware? Today we look at one seasoned IT Solutions organization that is using OpenDNS for Managed Service Providers to do exactly that.
4441d578Sunrise .xxx domains get 1.3 million hits a day
Domain names blocked by trademark holders during the .xxx sunrise period get 1.3 million hits per day, according to ICM Registry president Stuart Lawley. The number refers to DNS queries arriving at the name servers ICM...
4442d487Mesure de la résilience de l'Internet en France : mon...
À l'occasion de la réunion de l'OARC (https://www.dns-oarc.net/) aujourd'hui à Teddington, j'ai présenté le futur rapport sur la résilience de l'Internet en France. Ce rapport a été produit conjointement par l'ANSSI et...
4442d490Another conflicted ICANN director?
Yet another member of ICANN s board of directors may have a conflict of interest relating to the new generic top-level domains program, it has emerged. As well as its official open meeting last Friday, the board held...
4442d570New partnership between .uk registry Nominet and Swedish...
The Swedish company OpenDNSSEC AB (svb), which is operated by .SE (The Internet Infrastructure Foundation), will receive a capital injection of £35,000 from Nominet, which is in charge of the British UK top-level domain...
4443d504RFC 6544: TCP Candidates with Interactive Connectivity...
Le protocole ICE, normalisé dans le RFC 5245, permet de traverser des obstacles comme les routeurs NAT, en essayant plusieurs techniques successives. ICE fonctionne en proposant une liste d'adresses candidates et en...
4443d552RFC 6561: Recommendations for the Remediation of Bots in...
Une des plus grosses menaces sur la sécurité de l'Internet réside dans les zombies, ces machines Windows contaminées par du logiciel malveillant et qui obéissent désormais à un maître qui leur ordonne, selon sa volonté,...
4443d476Les jolis traceroute d'Orange/3G
Le service 3G d'Orange « Business Everywhere » est lent, peu fiable et plusieurs ports sont filtrés. Mais il a surtout des traceroutes intéressants.
4443d517Olympic showdown spells doom for ICANN, film at 11
ICANN s 43rd public meeting, held in Costa Rica last week, was a relatively low-drama affair, with one small exception: the predicted death of ICANN s Generic Names Supporting Organization. The drama went down at the...
4444d517New gTLD registrants now at 290
There are now 290 registered users of ICANN s Top-Level Domain Application System, according to the organization. As before, there s not a one-to-one mapping of TAS accounts to gTLD applications, because each account can...
4444d477GMO to apply for .yokohama
GMO Registry has said it has obtained government consent to apply to ICANN for yet another Japanese city top-level domain. This time it s .yokohama for Yokohama, which with 3.7 million inhabitants is Japan s...
4444d513Second new gTLD round in “small number of years”
ICANN chair Steve Crocker has said that the second round of new generic top-level domain applications will open years from not, but not a large number of years . He made the comments during an interview with ICANN s head...
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