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- Sixty gTLD registries not monitoring security threats
- ICANN must do more to fight internet security threats [Guest Post]
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- Botterman is new ICANN chair
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- Paranoid ICANN opens another root server in China
- A third of the top TLDs are shrinking
- These two ccTLDs drove two thirds of all domain growth in Q2
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- CIRA replaces CORE as emergency backup registry
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- China’s MySpace trainwreck sells its gTLD
- Second-level .au names delayed
- ICANN names new directors, replaces Facebook exec
- After getting acquired, bank scraps its dot-brand
- Porn-block retail prices revealed. Wow.
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- Three-letter .com owned by hospital “hijacked”
- “We’re Irish!” claim Brits as .eu shrinks yet again
- Mystery .vu registry revealed
- Berkens says new gTLDs mostly suck but geos suck hardest
- .gay gets rooted
- Neustar takes control of two new gTLDs
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- EFF becomes second to appeal new .org contract
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- Google has big, innovative plans for .new
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- Radix releases huge amount of premium domain data
- ICANN dumps the “Whois” in new Whois tool
- Now auDA loses its CEO too
- Porn blocks could be worth millions to MMX
- Cryptocurrency firms to be banned from .bank
- Cybersquatting cases down a bit in the UK
- Looks like .fans has a new Chinese owner
- Can NameCheap reverse .org price cap scrap?
- Neustar to keep .us for another decade
US government requests root DNSSEC go-ahead
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, part of the US Department of Commerce, has formally announced its intent to allow the domain name system’s root servers to be digitally signed with DNSSEC.
Largely, I expect, a formality, a public comment period has been opened (pdf) that will run for two weeks, concluding on the first day of ICANN’s Brussels meeting.
NTIA said:
NTIA and NIST have reviewed the testing and evaluation report and conclude that DNSSEC is ready for the final stages of deployment at the authoritative root zone.
DNSSEC is a standard for signing DNS traffic using cryptographic keys, making it much more difficult to spoof domain names.
ICANN is expected to get the next stage of DNSSEC deployment underway next week, when it generates the first set of keys during a six-hour “ceremony” at a secure facility in Culpeper, Virginia.
The signed, validatable root zone is expected to go live July 15.
The current DNSSEC ICANN “Theatrics” are comical.
The [True Internet Architecture] is NOT high-security data-centers with Check-Point Charlie driveways.
Savy ISPs and developers long ago gave up on
those “root servers” ICANN is securing in Fort Knox.
It is interesting to see ICANN claiming to be planning for
competition for Verisign from one side of their mouth while partnering with the U.S. Government and Verisign
from the other side.
The theatrics are reminiscent of the days when Network
Solutions (pre-Verisign) would apparently hire armed
guards on days when noobs were visiting. It was all
show.