DigitalForYouth already sent over 11.000 refurbished laptops to schools
DNS Belgium (the registry behind .be, .vlaanderen and .brussels) had been working on their new “good cause” for a while: DigitalForYouth would finally launch in 2020. The goal is to give discarded laptops a second live by refurbishing them and giving them to Belgian schools and other institutions, who don’t have the financials means to […]
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Avoid unpleasant surprises with the AdultBlock and AdultBlock+
Minds & Machines, the registry for amongst others .xxx, .adult, … introduces 2 new services, namely the AdultBlock and the AdultBlock+. These services offer owners of a registered trademark and a sunriseB .xxx name the opportunity to protect their name (and possible variations on this name) under .xxx, .porn, .sex and .adult.
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“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 […]
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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.
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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.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.
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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 […]
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