News from the DNS blogsphere.
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OpenDNS Blog | 4500d | 721 | OpenDNS’s Free Parental Controls Protects Your iPads,... Gadgets proved especially popular in my family this past holiday season, as I m sure it did for many others. My brother got an Xbox 360, while my mom loved her new Kindle Fire. Meanwhile, friends of mine around the... |
ISC.org | 4500d | 458 | DHCP 4.2.3-P2 Project: DHCP Release Notes
DHCP 4.2.3-P2 is a production release of ISC DHCP. It contains fixes to correct the possible denial of service condition described in CVE-2011-4868. Download Signatures dhcp-4.2.3-P2.tar.gz... |
DNS reddit | 4500d | 472 | Comcast Completes DNSSEC Deployment submitted by cmeerw
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DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4500d | 546 | Outrage as bookshop drops apostrophe The lunatic fringe of the British press is having a field day today with the news that high-street bookseller Waterstone s has changed its name to Waterstones. The apostrophe has been dropped to make the brand more... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4500d | 506 | Two new vice presidents at ICANN ICANN has appointed two new vice presidents to head up its European and Latin American offices. British former civil servant Nigel Hickson, who ICANN says has experience working in European Union politics, is the new VP... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4500d | 582 | GAC gets more power to block controversial gTLDs While the new version of ICANN s new generic top-level domains Applicant Guidebook contains mostly tweaks, there s a pretty big change for those filing controversial applications. The Guidebook now grants the... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4500d | 558 | ICANN opens new gTLD program It s scarcely believable given the delays and threats, but ICANN opened its new generic top-level domains program to applications this morning at a minute after midnight UTC. The TLD Application System, ICANN s custom... |
Stéphane Bortzmeyer | 4500d | 482 | Le TLD du Gabon en panne depuis quatre mois Depuis septembre 2011, le TLD du Gabon, ".ga" est en panne quasi-complète. Quelle est la panne exacte ? Pourquoi cette panne ? Que fait le gouvernement ? Quelles sont les conséquences pour le reste du DNS ? |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4501d | 523 | Whois verification rules coming this year No more Donald Duck in the Whois? Registrars could be obliged to verify their customers identities when they sell domain names under new rules proposed for later this year, according to ICANN president Rod Beckstrom. He... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4501d | 507 | Introducing DomainIncite PRO As you know, today is a Big Day in the domain name industry. That s right, today s the day that I m excited to announce the launch of DomainIncite PRO, the industry s newest research and analysis service. DomainIncite... |
Carsten Strotmann | 4501d | 559 | Give nsupdate a history the useful nsupdate tool (used to send dynamic updates towards an authoritative DNS server, part of the BIND nameserver distribution, www.isc.org ) does not have a commandline history, nor automatic command completion.... |
Cricket Liu | 4502d | 537 | Another Angle on Prefetching For another angle on the risks of browser prefetching, read this paper by Srinivas Krishnan and Fabian Monrose. The authors describe algorithms that allow a hacker with access to a shared name server's cache to... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4502d | 490 | SportAccord picks CORE for .sport gTLD bid SportAccord, an international association of sporting federations, has picked CORE as its registry services provider for its .sport generic top-level domain application. The organization, which has International Olympic... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4502d | 538 | Key-Systems sued over brand protection trademark Israeli domain name registrar Domain The Net Technologies has filed a preemptive lawsuit against German competitor Key-Systems over their respective brand management trademarks. According to the complaint, Domain The Net... |
Bert Hubert | 4502d | 564 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server Security Notification... CVE CVE-2012-0206 Date 10th of January 2012 Credit Ray Morris of BetterCGI.com . Affects Most PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions 3.0.1 (with the exception of the just released 2.9.22.5) Not affected No versions of... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4502d | 499 | Melbourne IT involved in 100+ gTLD applications Melbourne IT says it has prepared applications for over 100 new generic top-level domains on behalf of clients including members of the Association of National Advertisers. The registrar s CEO, Theo Hnarakis, said in a... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4502d | 597 | Go Daddy gripe site relaunches with .co domain Erstwhile Go Daddy gripe site No Daddy, formerly found at nodaddy.com, has been relaunched under new ownership at nodaddy.co. The original site opened in 2007 as a place for customers to share horror stories , but was... |
DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 4503d | 581 | ANA’s modest proposal: let us take over the new gTLD... The Association of National Advertisers has offered ICANN a risible last-minute solution to the outrage it has created over the new generic top-level domains program. The ANA wants ICANN to create a temporary Do Not Sell... |
Tony Finch | 4503d | 501 | Contents of my pot of small change I have an earthenware pot into which I dump my small change: any coins worth less than 50p. (It's like a pot of gold that has suffered hyperinflation.) It was nearly full, so I took the coins to my bank in a very sturdy... |
Miek Gieben | 4503d | 357 | NSEC4 (This is a English translation of this Dutch blog article )
By writing the NSEC3 whitepaper , we gained a lot of insight in how "authenticated denial of existence" works. But some new questions popped up: Is NSEC3 the... |
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