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June 3, 2020News

Expired Sectigo certificate causes problems

On May 30th 2020 the certificate of “AddTrust External CA Root” expired. This certificate was 20 years old and had been used by Comodo/Sectigo to sign the certificates they sold. While it had already been replaced a long time ago, it was still being included by Sectigo in the certificate chain, because it added support […]

May 25, 2020News

Google keeps .meet to itself

Schedule meetings through your own .meet domain name? Bump into the partner of your dreams online through a .meet site? Unfortunately, Google Registry puts a stop to this.

May 15, 2020News

SSL certificates soon only valid for 1 year

A while ago, Safari (Apple’s browser) put a bomb under the validity of SSL certificates. From September 1st 2020, Safari will no longer accept SSL certificates with a validity of more than 1 year, issued after September 1st 2020.

March 11, 2020News

“BVBA” becomes “BV”, don’t be fooled (or ripped off)

The most common company type in Belgium is “BVBA” (which is similar to “LTD”). Due to changes in the Belgian law, this has now officially become known as “BV”. Not many seem to have noticed and most companies still refer to themselves as “BVBA”. But especially for companies who included their company type in their […]

March 6, 2020News

Let’s encrypt to revoke 3 million certificates… or not

Only about a month ago we reported about a big recall of certificates organised by Sectigo. They would be revoking about 6000 certificates, mostly owned by Dutch companies. They gave a 6-day notice. Let’s encrypt just responded with “hold my beer”, announcing to revoke 3 million certificates with only a 5-day notice.

February 28, 2020News

Coronavirus throws a spanner in the works

Because of Covid-19, better known as the Corona virus, ICANN (the umbrella organization for managing all gTLDs) decided to cancel its ICANN 67 meeting. This would normally have taken place from 7 to 12 March in Cancun. ICANN gave the following statement: “Each ICANN Public Meeting attracts thousands of attendees from more than 150 countries. […]

February 27, 2020News

General availability .ar postponed

Normally, the general availability for the .ar extension would have started. This means that as of today, anyone who wanted to register a domain name directly under .ar, would be able to do so. This general availability has now been postponed indefinitely. The reason for the delay is the payment problems that NIC.AR is currently […]

February 20, 2020News

Updates .be domain names will be delayed

The .be-registry (DNS Belgium) was, many years ago, one of the very first registries capable of instantly updating information in their nameservers. So if you registered a new domain name, it would instantly be ready to be found. Many other registries have, also until now, stuck to a system of putting updates in a queue […]

February 18, 2020News

.cy registrations are possible now

The Cypriot registry (nic.cy) has released the .cy extension. Registrations under .com.cy were already possible. And from now on it’s also possible to register domain names directly under .cy. Moreover, you no longer have to have a local address to be able to register a Cypriot domain name.

February 17, 2020News

Old-fashioned locksmith needed for root DNSSEC-signing

Every 3 months a special ceremony takes place in which new cryptographic “Zone Signing Keys” are being signed, which will be used the next quarter to secure the root DNS zone. These DNSSEC keys are the basis of every DNSSEC-protected domain name. A copy of the “Key Signing Key” required for this, is kept at […]