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Internationalisation of DNS continues

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.

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. […]