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Home 22 Apr 2019 Dead TLD Update ICANN Last November I wrote a post observing that with .DOHA and .ZIPPO handing back the keys, the count of abandonded TLDs had reached 45, and I wondered how much other destroyed value was hiding in new TLDs. See more ... posted at: 18:36 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/dead47.html 21 Apr 2019 Domain Name Variants Still Won't Work ICANN ICANN has spent years trying to figure out what to do with domain name variants, strings that look different but mean the same thing, for some definition of "the same." They've been trying to deal with them in second level domains for a decade, and are now working on rules to allow variant top-level domains. Unfortunately, variants don't work. The problem isn't putting them in the DNS, it's that once they're in the DNS, they don't work anywhere else. See more ... posted at: 22:10 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/variantno.html 17 Mar 2019 A short history of DNS over HTTP (so far) Internet The IETF is in the midst of a vigorous debate about DNS over HTTP or DNS over HTTPS, abbreviated as DoH. How did we get there, and where do we go from here? See more ... posted at: 22:14 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/dohsofar.html 24 Jan 2019 What's wrong with this security model? Internet I'm moving some of my financial accounts to Lively, a fintech startup. We've had the usual chit-chat about details of where the money is coming from on the messaging system on their web site. It works fine, when there's something new they send me a note saying to log in and check my messages. Except that today they sent me a message through a third party "secure" messaging service. To protect the guilty, we'll call it Hubri. See more ... posted at: 15:28 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/sosecret.html 20 Nov 2018 DOHA and ZIPPO make forty five ICANN Forty five what? Forty five abandoned top level domains. On November 7, ICANN received a notice from the Communication Regulatory Authority of the State of Qatar that they are terminating the registration agreement for .DOHA. Two weeks before that, the Zadco company terminated .ZIPPO. See more ... posted at: 11:34 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/dead45.html

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