Earlier today one of Ireland's oldest hosting providers seems to have gone completely offline.The company in question is Host.ie, which is also known as Novara or Digihost. Over the better part of 20 years the provider has changed hands a couple of times, as well as its name. These days it's known as "Hostopia Ireland", after the company was acquired by American provider … [Read more...] about Host.ie Novara.ie and Digihost Go AWOL
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Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Suffer Outage
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have all suffered an outage this afternoon.Facebook owns all three platforms, so it looks like there's an issue on Facebook's side.It's unclear at this juncture what is causing the outage, though previous outages impacting big platforms have usually been due to software updates gone wrong.However it is clear that it's impacting … [Read more...] about Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Suffer Outage
Cloudflare Suffers Outage Caused by Software Glitch
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 and services that use Cloudflare … [Read more...] about Cloudflare Suffers Outage Caused by Software Glitch
Oracle To Acquire Dyn
Oracle is acquiring DNS and internet performance provider Dyn.The announcement was made earlier today. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.It'll probably take several months for the deal to close and for now nothing will change for any of DYN's clients.Here's the press release: Oracle today announced that it has signed an agreement to … [Read more...] about Oracle To Acquire Dyn
Brazil Blocks WhatsApp Again
A Brazilian judge has ordered the blocking of WhatsApp. The order came in the last couple of days and has been reported in mainstream media:The InterceptThe NextWebThe blocking order means that 100 million Brazilian users of WhatsApp are cut off.AFNIC's Stéphane Bortzmeyer did a bit of digging around using RIPE's Atlas probes and the blocking can be seen clearly … [Read more...] about Brazil Blocks WhatsApp Again
IE Zone Now DNSSEC Enabled
As of about 45 minutes ago the .ie zone has had DNSSEC turned on.For the next few months DS records will be processed manuallyHere's the full announcement: IEDR are pleased to announce the deployment of DNS security extensions (DNSSEC) for the .ie country code top level domain (ccTLD). This protocol will enable service providers to offer additional security for DNS … [Read more...] about IE Zone Now DNSSEC Enabled
Registration Operations Association Kick Off Meeting at ICANN 51
Registrars and registries have to work together. It's a reality. While relations between the two groups can be fantastic, there are also plenty of instances where at the operational level things are a little "strained". Those issues stem a lot of the time from technical issues, limitations and possibly "design choices". There are a lot of very intelligent people working in … [Read more...] about Registration Operations Association Kick Off Meeting at ICANN 51
Paul Vixie: The Openness of the Internet is Poisoning Us
Paul Vixie recently gave a presentation at a security conference in the Netherlands entitled "Defective by Design -- How the Internet's Openness is Slowly Poisoning Us "It's a provocative title for a talk and this interview he gave at the conference is well worth watching.Watch it and make up your own mind:http://youtu.be/J0YxPqdFtZ4 Related articlesISC … [Read more...] about Paul Vixie: The Openness of the Internet is Poisoning Us
.Nz Registry Enables DNSSEC
The .nz domain registry has announced that they have enabled DNSSEC in the New Zealand namespace: New Zealanders will be able to better secure their web presence from today, thanks to a major technical security deployment by InternetNZ subsidiaries .nz Registry Services (NZRS) and the Domain Name Commission (DNCL).Following more than two years of behind-the-scenes work, … [Read more...] about .Nz Registry Enables DNSSEC
DNS Industry Explained (Sort Of)
Quite an amusing video from JPRS (the .jp domain registry) that "explains" what they do .. or tries to ...With subtitlesAnd now you know how your friends feel when you talk about domains :) … [Read more...] about DNS Industry Explained (Sort Of)