Andy Davidson’s tech blog
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 […]
Posted: February 8th, 2008 under Uncategorized, Sys Admin, The 'net, non-tech, networking, domains, ecommerce.
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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. […]
Posted: May 26th, 2007 under The 'net, networking, domains, nominet.
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