Cloudflare powers an ever growing percentage of the world’s websites and online services. So when Cloudflare has snaffu a lot of other services are impacted, including ones that you might not even realise were using CloudFlare. Yesterday afternoon Cloudflare had an outage that lasted about 30 minutes. During that time period a lot of sites… Continue reading Cloudflare Suffers Outage Caused by Software Glitch
Month: July 2019
ICANN 66 Montreal Registration Open
While the most recent ICANN public meeting only drew to a close at the end of last week the details of the next meeting are already available. ICANN’s next public meeting will be ICANN 66 which will run from November 2nd to November 8th in Montreal and it is also the organisation’s AGM. It’ll be… Continue reading ICANN 66 Montreal Registration Open
Hungary to Host National Internet Governance Forum
While the main IGF event is being held in Berlin in November many countries are organising their own national IGFs. This September will see Hungary play host to its very first IGF in Budapest. The event, which will be held on September 12th, will be held in the Hungexpo in Budapest. The event will be… Continue reading Hungary to Host National Internet Governance Forum
INEX Announces New CEO
INEX, the Irish IXP, has announced the appointment of a new CEO. The new CEO is Mr Colin Dalton. Dalton has been involved in the Irish telecoms industry for the last 20 years, having held multiple roles with Eir, previously known as Eircom. Dalton previously served on the board of INEX where he was Chair.
Centralnic Acquires Hexonet / 1API
Centralnic has announced that it is acquiring Hexonet, which also owns 1API. The deal, which was announced today, will see Centralnic pay up to €10 million to acquire the German and Canadian based company. As a company focussed on domains there is of course a lot of recurring revenue: Like CentralNic, Hexonet has a high… Continue reading Centralnic Acquires Hexonet / 1API