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ICANN GDD Summit & Related Events Choose Paris for 2020 Event

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Paris, France will be the venue for a week of domain related events next May.ICANN has chosen Paris as the venue for the ICANN GDD Industry Summit and The DNS Symposium next May.Both the Registrations Operations Workshop and DNS OARC will also be held in the same venue that week.It'll be a very busy week!GDD Summit May 3rd - May 6th. The focus in these events … [Read more...] about ICANN GDD Summit & Related Events Choose Paris for 2020 Event

Cloudflare Suffers Outage Caused by Software Glitch

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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

IE ccTLD Removes DNS Checks

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The .ie ccTLD had finally removed DNS checks from its processes. Up until the change, which came last night, any new registrations, transfers or other updates would be delayed until the DNS delegation had been checked.What that meant in reality is that if a domain's delegated nameservers were not 100% compliant with the RFCs then the registration or change would be … [Read more...] about IE ccTLD Removes DNS Checks

Middle East DNS Forum is Looking for Program Committee Members

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The Middle East DNS Forum is held every year somewhere in the region. You can read about the previous ones here.In common with pretty much all conferences there is a program committee who work on putting the event together. In order to keep things "fresh" membership of the program committee rotates, with 3 members rotating off every year.So if you'd like to join the … [Read more...] about Middle East DNS Forum is Looking for Program Committee Members

ICANN DNS Symposium Heads to Montreal and Call for Proposals Open

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ICANN is holding the DNS Symposium this year in Montreal, Canada. The event will be held at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth on July 13th.Last year the event was colocated with the ICANN GDD Summit in Madrid, whereas this year it's a standalone one day event with the theme "Attention, Domain Name System: Your 30-year scheduled maintenance is overdue"If you're interested in … [Read more...] about ICANN DNS Symposium Heads to Montreal and Call for Proposals Open

IEDR Opens Consultation on Removing DNS Checks

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The IEDR has opened a consultation on removing DNS checks during registrations, transfers and other operations.At the moment when a .ie domain name registration is requested the IEDR will check if it passes the policy requirements and then does a technical check. If it fails the technical check the registration can fail. The same thing can happen when there's a transfer … [Read more...] about IEDR Opens Consultation on Removing DNS Checks

Africa DNS Forum to be Held in Tanzania

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The 5th annual Africa DNS Forum is being held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on July 26 - 28.The event, which is being organised by AfTLD,  ICANN and ISOC in association with a number of other organisations, will run over two days and cover both technical and business aspects of the domain name industry.The current draft schedule has speakers covering topics such as DNSSEC, … [Read more...] about Africa DNS Forum to be Held in Tanzania

ICANN’s Göran Marby Speaks at WHD.Global in Germany

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ICANN CEO Göran Marby spoke at WHD.Global last week. Traditionally ICANN has not had a strong presence at WHD, so having the CEO and some of his senior staff in attendance last week was a positive move.The challenge for Marby, who also had a fairly early morning slot for his talk, was making ICANN relevant to an audience made up of hosting companies.His keynote runs for … [Read more...] about ICANN’s Göran Marby Speaks at WHD.Global in Germany