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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 384d | 41 | Verisign gave Trump $100,000 Remember January 20, 2025, about a thousand years ago, when Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States? Remember how the dais at the Capitol rotunda was stacked with tech bros... |
| DNS reddit | 385d | 114 | Subdomain question I have a domain registered and a website under that domain. I would like to create a subdomain for it like app.mydomain.com and point that subdomain to the app I have created and it is hosted on Azure.
What I would... |
| DNS reddit | 385d | 103 | Dns tutorial Hello,
I am trying to stop watching pornograhpy and a lot of people recommended DNS. Can anyone walk me through exactly what DNS is and how I can use it to block explicit websites? submitted by /u/Patient-Classic-446... |
| DNS reddit | 385d | 102 | Is Proton's NetShield a DNS resolver? Double-dipping with... I've used the NetShield function for years now and it doesn't leak my DNS but I'd like to give AdGuard DNS a test drive,, is there a point? They serve the same purpose as far as I can see. submitted by... |
| DNS reddit | 386d | 215 | Neustar rating innocous websites as unsafe and blocking... I've found there is a service called Neustar (owned by the company Vercara, which is in turned owned by Digicert) which rates websites according to safety. There are several different services which do this.
If you... |
| DNS reddit | 386d | 90 | Help Me Understand This DNS Issue Scenario
This is related to a corporate network. I am a user, not the IT guy. Up until roughly (5) days ago, all outgoing mail from my account / our company domain successfully reached everyone / other domains that I... |
| DNS reddit | 387d | 103 | Can someone create a fake subdomain for a legit website by.. I was using shodan, and found a weird subdomain on a website I used (its a legit website), which seems very fishy.
For example assume the domain is example.com , i found weird.ass.subdomain.example.com in Shodan for... |
| DNS reddit | 388d | 94 | ISP filters DNS queries on private IPs We have a few domain names pointing to private addresses (10.x.x.x) inside AWS VPCs, DNS records are managed via Route53.
We use a VPN with split tunnel to access those resources, we don't route all traffic through the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 388d | 53 | Private Whois requests hit new low after Tucows quits RDRS March saw the lowest number of requests for private Whois data via ICANN s Registration Data Request Service since the system launched in late 2023. ICANN s latest stats show that there were just 91 requests last month,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 388d | 48 | Zoom says GoDaddy took it down for hours A screwup by MarkMonitor and GoDaddy was responsible for a two-hour outage affecting Zoom s videoconferencing services yesterday, according to the company. The widely used services were offline between 1825 and 2012 UTC... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 388d | 42 | Un million de routes Si vous suivez l'actualité du routage sur l'Internet, vous avez peut-être vu des messages comme quoi on atteindrait bientôt « un million de routes ». Mais ça veut dire quoi et, surtout, est-ce que ce chiffre a un sens ? |
| DNS reddit | 389d | 108 | I am using AdGuard DNS. On my Asus router, only one filter.. https://preview.redd.it/7zlbkyyri7ve1.png?width=1537 format=png auto=webp s=623c0ee7d5e6297251a7f71572034a567d7e6173
My primary browser is Edge. I didn't see anything broken. But why does Microsoft send so many... |
| DNS reddit | 389d | 88 | New BIND releases are available: 9.18.36, 9.20.8, 9.21.7 FYI:
https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-announce/2025-April/001271.html
Victoria Risk
Wed Apr 16 12:36:13 UTC 2025
BIND-users,
Our April 2025 maintenance releases of BIND 9 are available and can be downloaded... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 389d | 73 | The Soviet Union might be safe after all The ccTLD from the defunct Soviet Union may be safe from deletion, judging by the ccNSO s latest pronouncement on the issue. It seems like, following a bit of a kerfuffle at ICANN 82 in Seattle last month, IANA has been... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 390d | 79 | Google says its ccTLDs “are no longer necessary” Google is going to stop using country-code TLDs for its web sites around the world. The company said today that country-level domains are no longer necessary because it s become so good at localization that it doesn t... |
| DNS reddit | 390d | 95 | Hoping to speak with DNS management professionals Hello DNS people! We're looking to speak with DNS management professionals for a remote study we're running for the next week. If this describes you, we encourage you to apply:... |
| DNS reddit | 390d | 125 | New to this DNS thing and have some questions Hey,
am new to this DNS concept and I have few questions, hope you guys can help me on that.
so while using grc benchmark, the difference between the response time is very less, among cached, unchached, dotcom which... |
| DNS reddit | 390d | 118 | Question about email tenants hitting other email tenants... Long story short:
One of my clients has their email tenant/dns all screwed up. They were using Google Workspace for their emails but their DNS was pointing to an old instance of O365. Most of their email deliverability... |
| DNS reddit | 390d | 114 | "DNS as a service" options in 2025? I'm currently using nextdns and my year is coming up. I wouldn't say there's any major problem with it, I'm just wondering if there is anything else I should be thinking about right now. I know of adguard but I'm not... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 390d | 67 | Facebook thinks ICANN is a bit rubbish Facebook owner Meta came away from the recent ICANN 82 public meeting unimpressed and wondering why the community doesn t actually seem to be doing much, according to the company s representative. Writing to ICANN s CEO... |
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