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4567d572.xxx faces big test as landrush kicks off
The landrush phase for ICM Registry s .xxx domain is scheduled to begin today, following the oversubscribed sunrise period that closed last week. Given the inherently defensive nature of sunrise periods – most of the...
4567d508Afilias to apply for Chinese .info
Afilias has announced that it plans to apply for the traditional and simplified Chinese script equivalents of .info under ICANN s new generic top-level domains program. The company becomes the last of the Big Three...
4567d534If You Can't Trust Your ISP, Who Can You Trust?
Apparently there's a "massive" attack against DNS infrastructure underway in Brazil .  Much of the initial reporting refers to the attack as cache poisoning, though Rod Rasmussen correctly points out that it's not...
4567d476If You Can't Trust Your ISP, Who Can You Trust?
Apparently there's a "massive" attack against DNS infrastructure underway in Brazil .  Much of the initial reporting refers to the attack as cache poisoning, though Rod Rasmussen correctly points out that it's not...
4567d497DNSSEC Tutorial in London
I'm in the final stages of preparation for my upcoming November tutorial on DNSSEC in London, and non too soon either. (Jane of UKUUG is raising a warning finger that I haven't yet sent her my tutorial notes for...
4568d525Over 7,500 .uk cybersquatting cases heard
Nominet is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its Dispute Resolution Service this week, saying that it has settled over 7,500 cybersquatting cases. Based on a £15,000 estimated cost of legal action, the .uk registry...
4568d536Grande perturbation de l'Internet ce sept novembre...
Ce lundi 7 novembre 2011, vers 14h05 UTC, grande perturbation de la Force. Des tas de destinations deviennent injoignables sur l'Internet...
4568d533Net::DNS 0.67 released
Many bug fixes, a modular serial number system, experimetal work on IDN, rework of the build system.
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4570d569DNSSEC-trigger on Mac OS/X
I finally got around to installing dnssec-trigger on my own workstation, and I'm delighted. I wrote about automating Unbound on your workstation recently, and since NLnetLabs meanwhile provides a disk image (DMG)...
4570d504Libres savoirs, les biens communs de la connaissance
Qu'est-ce qu'il y a de commun entre la paysanne mexicaine qui réclame de pouvoir faire pousser des semences de maïs de son choix, le parisien qui télécharge de manière nonhadopienne un film qu'il ne peut pas acheter...
4571d529Marriott: we probably won’t use .hotel
Could .hotel be the next .travel? That s one view that emerged from a conference organized by the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse discussing ICANN s new generic top-level domains program earlier this week. We think...
4571d506CADNA calls for second new gTLDs round in 2012
The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse wants ICANN to name the date for its second new top-level domains application round, and suggested that it could come as early as one year from now. President Josh Bourne told DI...
4571d494Join ISC's President, Barry Greene in Singapore on 14...
ISC’s President, Barry Greene will be giving three talks in Singapore focusing on network security, innovation and research. This event is hosted by The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) DATE:...
4572d505.xxx sunrise auctions delayed after 80k applications
ICM Registry has apparently delayed the results of its just-closed .xxx sunrise period until December to give it a chance to clear its backlog of unverified applications. Corporation Services Company, a major...
4573d527Court throws out Russian gaming scandal claims
Russian registrar RU-Center has won its appeal against a $7.5 million government fine, following claims that it gamed the launch of .РФ, registering tens of thousands of names to itself. The Moscow Arbitration Court...
4573d505RFC 6417: How to Contribute Research Results to Internet...
Nourri de la vaste expérience de ses auteurs (tous chercheurs et tous ayant écrit des RFC), ce document essaie de combler une partie du fossé entre la communauté des chercheurs et la normalisation, en encourageant ces...
4573d547Identifier un attaquant qui a triché sur son adresse IP...
À la réunion OARC (https://www.dns-oarc.net/) de Vienne, le 29 octobre 2011, Duane Wessels a présenté un très intéressant (et très technique) exposé « Tracing a DNS reflection attack » (voir ses transparents...
4573d598Le RIPE-NCC va-t-il nettoyer le marais des adresses IP ?
À la réunion RIPE de Vienne, le 1er novembre, Axel Pawlik, directeur du RIPE-NCC a fait un exposé sur « What to do about IPv4 Legacy Address Space » ou que faire du marais, ces préfixes IP alloués il y a de nombreuses...
4574d516RFC 6415: Web Host Metadata
Ce court RFC spécifie une convention qui permet à un client Web de récupérer sur un serveur une description formelle de méta-données sur le site servi (par exemple l'auteur du site Web, ou bien la licence du contenu...
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