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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 588d | 47 | ICANN fixes embarrassing “What is a Domain Name?” mistake Good news, everyone! ICANN knows what a domain name is! The Org has quietly corrected a slide deck, designed as a high-level introduction to the new gTLD program s Next Round, that seemed to mislabel the components of a... |
| DNS reddit | 588d | 232 | Is it normal/safe for company computers to spam DC SRV... Hi all,
As much as I would love to understand DNS better, it confuses the heck out of me, so my knowledge is limited. My work laptop, when disconnected from VPN but still powered, constantly hits my local DNS with a... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 588d | 46 | Another ccTLD opens up its second level Kuwait has become the latest country to make second-level domain registrations possible directly under its national ccTLD. The registry, government regulator the Communication and Information Technology Regulatory... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 588d | 52 | Reporter gains first access to .io island for decades A BBC journalist is believed to have become the first reporter to visit Diego Garcia, the main island of the contested British Indian Ocean Territory that owns the .io domain, in decades. Alice Cuddy was given access to... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 588d | 57 | .io sells $40 million of domains after massive uptick .io is now a $40-million-a-year domain, after a few years of impressive growth, judging by the registry s latest financial reports. UK-based Internet Computer Bureau, a subsidiary of Identity Digital, recently reported... |
| DNS reddit | 588d | 261 | DNS cache doesnt have any browsing data? title basically. I wanted to look at some sites I used a long time ago but I cleared my browsing history and tried to use the DNS to find them but then there's literally no sites I use in the DNS. not even a youtube link... |
| DNS reddit | 589d | 373 | I sometimes get DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN when I access... Hello all, when I try to access my website it sometimes shows that This site can’t be reached
Check if there is a typo in bkkwebmasters.com
I bought my domain and ssl from namecheap and currently hosting it on... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 591d | 64 | After five years, “useless” TLD has two web sites An IDN ccTLD criticized as useless by locals when it was approved five years ago has fewer domains today than it did at launch, and a portfolio of web sites even a Simpson could count on one hand (twice). The... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 591d | 55 | Verisign agrees to .com takedown rules Verisign has agreed to take down abusive .com domains under the next version of its registry contract with ICANN. The proposed deal, published for public comment yesterday, could have financial implications for the... |
| DNS reddit | 591d | 184 | How do I update whois submitted by /u/bobby_the_buizel
[link] [comments] |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 592d | 67 | New .com contract could see ALL domain prices go up Verisign will retain its power to increase .com prices by 7% a year, and prices in other gTLDs could well go up, under a new proposed registry contract designed to help patch up ICANN s budget. The proposed .com Registry... |
| DNS reddit | 592d | 258 | External DNS blocking requests by IP addresses? All,
This might be more of sysadmin question but I thought I would ask here as this is a DNS issue and this is a DNS reddit? :)
I am a system admin that runs a school network that consists of LAN/wireless... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 592d | 45 | Investing in .ad domains may be risky Domain investors may shoulder additional risk when they register domains in the relaunching .ad TLD, judging by the registry s new cybersquatting policy. Andorra Telecom, which will make .ad names generally available... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 592d | 85 | Plurals ban policy handed to ICANN board The GNSO Council has approved a blanket ban on singular and plural versions of the same word being delegated as gTLDs in future and passed it to the ICANN board of directors for final consideration. The proposed policy... |
| DNS reddit | 593d | 257 | NSLOOKUP results on PDC differs from other DCs Got a weird one. Our Primary Domain Controller gets a different IP address from our other Domain Controllers when we do a nslookup for the same website.
We have 2 DCs at our main site and 4 DCs at remote sites (one per... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 593d | 64 | Three .now domains sell at premium EAP prices Amazon s Early Access Periods for the new .now and .deal gTLDs have so far netted at least three premium-priced sales. Zone files reveal that so far .now has three new EAP domains but .deal has none. The .now domains... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 593d | 45 | ICANN confirms new gTLD application fee It s $227,000. That s the minimum ICANN expects to charge for each new gTLD application in the Next Round. The Org confirmed the price, which is $42,000 more than it charged in 2012, in a blog post this afternoon. It s... |
| DNS reddit | 593d | 77 | URL redirects from multiple sites to specific pages on... I need advice setting up URL redirects. I have 3 websites... website1.com, website2.com, and website3.com. I am discontinuing website2.com and website3.com, as I have moved the content from those websites into... |
| DNS reddit | 593d | 100 | Will an sub-sub-domain A record as part of a sub-domain... Hi,
Let's say I have:
*.example.xyz.com with an NS record to 1.2.3.4
But, I want to add:
test.example.xyz.com with an A record to 6.7.8.9
Will the A record work, or shall the *.example.xyz.com NS record get... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 593d | 53 | New gTLD application fee rises by thousands after... ICANN has upped its expected new gTLD application fee after approving a costly new plan to tack name collisions. The baseline price of applying for a single string, most recently pegged at $220,000, is now expected to go... |
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