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26 Mar 2014

A little whois help ICANN
For a long time, the easiest way to look up the WHOIS information for a domain has been to use whois-servers.net, which has kept a list of a lot of WHOIS servers that you can look up in the DNS. To look up something in, say blah.tld you point your WHOIS program at blah.whois-servers.net. Many open source WHOIS clients will do that automatically, or with a flag. But with all the new TLDs added every week, they're falling behind.

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Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/wsspam.html

16 Mar 2014

How are ICANN's new TLDs doing? ICANN
ICANN has now accepted several hundred new top level domains (TLDs) and some of them are now open for general registration. I have sized up for zone file access, so I can download daily snapshots of most of the active zones, and I'm making daily counts of the number of names in each zone.

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Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/newsize.html

15 Mar 2014

The Name Collision Conference Internet
Earlier this week Verisign sponsored a two day conference on name collisions in the DNS. Despite the very short time frame in which it was organized, only a month from announcement to meeting, there were some very good presentations. I'll just hit some highlights here; all of the papers and slides are on their web site at
namecollisions.net.

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08 Mar 2014

Peter Pan Coin Money

Code is Law - Larry Lessig
MtGox finally collapsed, although for a reason I didn't anticipate: software bugs. Something called "transaction malleability" allowed crooked MtGox users to trick MtGox into believing that their withdrawals hadn't worked, so MtGox reissued them. This continued over about three years, during which time the crooks stole about 700,000 bitcoins from the wallet where MtGox kept most of its customers' deposits without them noticing.

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