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DNSSEC and SSL certificates
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Dr. Jörg Schweiger of the German domain name registry DENIC posed an interesting question at this morning’s first DENOG meeting, in Frankfurt.
Would domain name users who are concerned about the accuracy of data served pay extra for the ability to sign their DNS zone ? A handful of people in the room raised their hand [...]
Internationalisation of DNS continues
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Like most original internet standards, the DNS was designed to initially suit the needs of any section of the world that could communicate using 7-bit ASCII and Latin character sets. Then the internet became really popular. Everywhere. The DNS had to evolve to cope with naming schemes that came from alphabets all [...]
Slow Nominet Automaton headsup.
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Nominet are a non-profit entity that run the .uk domain namespace (domains ending in .uk like linux.org.uk). They have published a data-structure change which is requiring many domain name registrars to bulk update much of the information they hold about domains.
As a result, requests to process new registrations, renewals, and changes are really slow. [...]
