Registration Operations Workshop This Sunday Before IETF92 To Talk About EPP, Encryption, DNS

How can operators of registries such as top-level domains (TLDs) make their operations more efficient and more secure?  What can operators learn from each other?  And what are some of the larger initiatives happening that may affect registry operators? These are all the kinds of questions that will be discussed this coming Sundary, March 22, Read more…

FYI – New Mobile Web Interface For Deploy360 Site

Just a quick administrative update about this Deploy360 site.  If you are browsing this site using a smartphone such as an iPhone or Android device you will notice that as of yesterday your user experience has been changed to be more “mobile-friendly”.  Whether it is a topic such as IPv6 or DNSSEC or  a page Read more…

FIR #799 – 3/16/15 – For Immediate Release

Quick News: External CEO engagement is now required, Facebook shutting down FriendFeed, Netflix’s terrific new native ad, Quartz experiment separates facts from hearsay; Ragan promo: News That Fits; Apple Watch will lead to reimagining of content marke…

FIR #799 – 3/16/15 – For Immediate Release

Quick News: External CEO engagement is now required, Facebook shutting down FriendFeed, Netflix’s terrific new native ad, Quartz experiment separates facts from hearsay; Ragan promo: News That Fits; Apple Watch will lead to reimagining of content marke…

Goodbye, Gigaom – So Long And Thanks For All The News!

This one hurts. There have been many failures in the tech media industry, but the death of Gigaom is one that hurts. The word started filtering out early last week from people such as Mathew Ingram: This hurts more than…

FriendFeed Finally Fades… Farewell!

Farewell, FriendFeed! Goodbye! Ever since Facebook acquired Friendfeed back in 2009 we wondered what its fate would be… now we know. This past Monday, March 9. 2015, the FriendFeed team posted a simple note that said in part: We wanted…

TDYR 232 -Farewell FriendFeed!

TDYR 232 -Farewell FriendFeed! by Dan York

Google Says Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly By April 21 – Or Drop In Search Results

Is your website "mobile-friendly"? Does it display nicely on a mobile device such as an iPhone, iPad, Android or other smart phone? If not, you have until April 21 to make it mobile-friendly… or you will suffer a drop in…

TDYR – Get Mobile-Friendly By April 21 Or Drop In Google Search Results

Is your web site “mobile-friendly”? If not, you have until April 21, 2015, to do so or suffer a drop in Google search results. I wrote about this more at: http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2015/03/google-says-make-your-site-mobile-friendly-by-ap…

TLS-O-MATIC Now Available To Test TLS In Applications

Do you want to test how well your application supports TLS over HTTP?  If so, you can now head over to: http://www.tls-o-matic.com/ and run your application through a whole series of self-tests. As he explains in a blog post announcing TLS-O-MATIC, Olle Johansson launched the site as a public service with 15 tests for the Read more…