John Demco
Nameserver Misconfigurations Cause .DE Domain Disruption – On May 12, several nameservers for Germany’s .de domain were updated with a zone file containing just one third of the actual .de domain data, resulting in incorrect “domain does not exist” responses. The problem started at about 13:30 CEST and was resolved at about 15:45. DENIC, the .de registry, issued an announcement on Wednesday and followed up on Friday with a description of the course of events including some technical details.
Russian IDN ccTLD Launched – The Internationalized Domain Name ccTLD .рф for the Russian Federation was launched this week. The delegation of the Cyrillic ccTLD was completed in conjunction with the Russian Internet Governance Forum.
Picks To Click
- ICANN has announced that cryptography pioneer Whitfield Diffie has joined the organization as Vice President for Information Security and Cryptography.
- New Zealand’s .nz registry will offer first-come first-served registration of Internationalized Domain Names with Maori language characters as of July 26.
- Pagebrook Inc. wins a dispute over tobiano.ca.
Timeline
- Mon, May 10: last day for comments on report on .xxx process options
- Thu, May 13 – Fri, Jun 11: applications to CIRA’s Nomination Committee solicited
- Sun, Jun 20 – Fri, Jun 25: ICANN meetings in Brussels, Belgium
- Thu, Jul 1: registry fee increases for .com/.net take effect
- Thu, Jul 1: production signed root zone to be available
- Tue, Aug 3 – Mon, Aug 16: call for Member Nominees for CIRA Board election
- Thu, Aug 26 – Thu, Sep 9: shows of support for Member Nominees for CIRA election
- Tue, Sep 14 – Tue, Sep 21: online forum for CIRA Board of Directors election
- Tue, Sep 21: CIRA Annual General Meeting
- Wed, Sep 22 – Wed, Sep 29: CIRA Board of Directors election
- Sun, Dec 5 – Fri, Dec 10: ICANN meetings in Cartagena, Columbia