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
CIRA to Provide DoH to Canadian Firefox Users
CIRA, the .ca domain name registry, will be providing DNS over HTTPS for Firefox users in Canada.So what's that all about?In common with many domain name registries, CIRA has diversified over the last few years. Offering DNS based services is a logical extension for a domain name registry, as the larger ones will have built out quite a lot of technical infrastructure … [Read more...] about CIRA to Provide DoH to Canadian Firefox Users
Africa DNS Forum 2021 Registration Open
The 2021 edition of the Africa DNS Forum is being held online.The event will be held on July 27th and 28th via Zoom, as well as being streamed via Facebook.The theme for this year's event is "Evolving the DNS Ecosystem in Africa".Speakers and other details of the agenda have not been announced yet, but should be made available on the event's official site in the … [Read more...] about Africa DNS Forum 2021 Registration Open
Middle East DNS Forum Goes Virtual for 2021
Last year the Middle East DNS Forum was meant to be taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Due to the pandemic the event was cancelled completely last year.For 2021 the Forum is being held online from April 5th to April 7th. It's still officially being held in Saudi Arabia, but it'll be 100% online.So what's on the agenda?There'll be a mix of topics with speakers … [Read more...] about Middle East DNS Forum Goes Virtual for 2021
EURid Registry Platform Under Attack
EURid, who run the .eu domain name registry, have been having issues over the last few days which are the result of a number of denial of service attacks.The registry's services were degraded from the morning of Friday 24th April through until Monday.Services returned to normal, but unfortunately it looks like either the attackers have started up again or there is a … [Read more...] about EURid Registry Platform Under Attack
ICANN GDD Summit & Related Events Choose Paris for 2020 Event
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
DNS OARC Opens Call for Presentations
DNS OARC will be holding their 32nd workshop in February 2020 in San Francisco.They've issued a call for presentations on topics related to DNS.Presentations can be allocated either a 15 minute or 30 minute slot. Submissions need to be made by 7 December 2019.Full details on presentation submissions are here.DNS OARC will be held right before NANOG 78. … [Read more...] about DNS OARC Opens Call for Presentations
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
IE ccTLD Removes DNS Checks
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