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August 1, 2008

Friday, August 01, 2008 10:54 AM/EST

U.S. Government Won't Cede Control Over DNS Root Zone

Changes to the DNS root will continue to be subject to the authority of the US Commerce Department.

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July 31, 2008

Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:12 PM/EST

Apple Finally Patches DNS Bug

The BIND bug doesn't look so bad once you see all the other stuff Apple patched.

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July 21, 2008

Monday, July 21, 2008 8:16 AM/EST

ICANN Approves New .INFO Policy

Registry will have unilateral powers to cancel registrations they see as troublesome.

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July 8, 2008

Tuesday, July 08, 2008 5:56 PM/EST

Massive Patch Effort Coordinated for DNS System Flaw

Most, if not all, major implementations appear to be vulnerable.

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May 20, 2008

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:35 AM/EST

New Open-Source DNS Server Supports DNSSEC

Unbound hopes to challenge BIND's dominance.

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February 27, 2008

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:13 AM/EST

GoDaddy Is the First Escrowed Registrar

Many months ago we described how ICANN was going to set up a Registrar Data Escrow Service to deal with the potential for registrar failure. Some months later they approved Iron Mountain as a service provider. Now GoDaddy has announced...

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January 9, 2008

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:21 PM/EST

Network Solutions Frontrunning and Tasting, Version 1.1

The domain registrar responds to widespread criticism of their domain "protection" scheme with some modifications.

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June 4, 2007

Monday, June 04, 2007 3:01 PM/EST

.defunct?

ICANN has released their first study in an effort to develop a plan for the failure of a registry. For instance, I have written about the shaky position of the admittedly marginal .travel registry. What would happen if it were...

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May 25, 2007

Friday, May 25, 2007 10:33 PM/EST

ICANN Ignores Itself

Obviously as part of dealing with the RegisterFly problem, ICANN developed a month ago a procedure for terminating a registrar. The procedure is quite interesting, and makes clear that the interests of registrants are the primary matter. Unfortunately, it appears...

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April 15, 2007

Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:55 PM/EST

Another /Gs Failure

I've written lately about how Microsoft's /Gs compiler stack protection failed us with the .ANI fiasco. It seems that it failed us once again with the latest issue, the stack overflow in the DNS RPC administration interface. I would think...

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