L'Afnic publie aujourd'hui le bilan 2023 des noms de domaine en .fr. Plus de 40% des noms de domaine en France sont des .fr. Découvrez tous les autres chiffres.
In this episode of #Syntax podcast, I thought this was going to be about warning about securing your domain registrations. Turns out that it is a warning to pick your weird #TLD well, and consider avoiding .af among others.
The #Taliban stole my domain https://overcast.fm/+JaI7wJKLE
@shaft Some were acquired after the fact, TLDs do change hands (Donuts bought Afilias). Also you have to separate those being just operated as technical backend (hence getting a cut from the registry for each domain or something like that), and those really "owned" as a registry.
@shaft Pas sûr du "mieux que rien". Car 1) en informatique, en général, toutes les solutions temporaires "en attendant mieux" se transforment en "pourquoi changer, ca fonctionne" et 2) spécifiquement à DNSSEC, les rotations/migrations/changement d'algorithmes sont toujours des nids à bugs et plantages opérationnels.
D'une manière générale, le .jo doit pouvoir tenir en faisant tourner des RPi 1 comme NS (5700 domaines en 2022. Leur site parle de paperasse à remplir sans filer de liens, impossible de savoir quoi. En tout cas, Gandi me propose shaftinc.jo à 420€ 🙃)
The demise of the queer.af domain (that just happened to follow a conversation I had with my wife on the weekend, who wanted a new domain name for a new business she wants to set up) made me write up some thoughts on Domain Names:
Here's your regular reminder that by picking a cutesy name under some #ccTLD you are necessarily relinquishing full control to the ccTLD owner. @violetblue found out about that when Lybia shut down her vb.ly back in... 2010 or so? Now here is @GossiTheDog noting that queer.af was suspended by the Taliban.
Don't register your domains under a repressive regime's #TLD.
Very good news: #ICANN is going to define a new special #TLD "internal" meant for use in internal networks only. This TLD is meant to never be used in the broader #Internet. 👍
I hope #router vendors will now react so that those hacky config #domains like "fritz.box" will be replaced with something that ends with ".internal". Those hacky domains always left a bad taste in my mouth.
It's not 100% official yet but the chances look good.
@Wuzzy FWIW there is already home.arpa for needs like that, "created" by RFC 8375. And everyone could have, from the get go, just avoided that, by applying the golden rule of never inventing names/TLDs, just registering a real one, and then use that as suffix of all internal naming needs.
@Wuzzy ICANN will open a new round of gTLDs in a couple of years. Almost anything can then appear as a new name... Advanced warning for anyone still using these dirty tricks in their infrastructure...
The .ing and .meme #domains have their sunrise registration phase ending in about 90 minutes and enter general availability. Get 'em while they're hot!