Google IPv6 Stats Pass 4% Globally, 20% in Belgium, 8% in USA, 11% in Switzerland

It seems that Belgium is beating the USA in more than just World Cup Soccer (What an amazing game!)… they are also doing it in IPv6 deployment! In looking at Google’s latest IPv6 statistics, my colleague Phil Roberts noted that IPv6 deployment globally has doubled in 9 months and is now over 4%.  It’s great to see Read more…

No, DNSSEC Would NOT Help Prevent Microsoft’s Seizure Of Domains

With a great bit of the tech media’s attention this week on Microsoft’s court-sanctioned seizure of 23 domains from dynamic DNS provider No-IP.com, multiple people have asked me if deploying DNSSEC would have helped prevent this seizure of domains by Microsoft. Knowing my advocacy of DNSSEC the people asking the question have seemed to want me Read more…

TDYR #160 – Congrats To Team USA On A Great World Cup

TDYR #160 – Congrats To Team USA On A Great World Cup by Dan York

A Three Year Cancerversary

Today an anniversary slipped up upon us without much thought. We just came back very late last night from our first family vacation in about eight years (to London, where the photo accompanying this post was taken) and this morning were dealing with all the fallout of that return in terms of unpacking, getting back into routines, caring for our house and animals, etc. July 1 is also Canada Day, a day we celebrate in honor of our oldest daughter’s birth in that country, and so we were honoring that day. And then somewhere in the midst of all that…

Skype Shuts Down SkypeKit and the Skype Developer Website

Goodbye to SkypeKit… and perhaps more importantly to the developer.skype.com website. Prominently featured there now is a banner saying the site will close on July 31, 2014: Leaving aside the bizarre way to end the warning banner ("… to integrate…

FIR #762 – 6/30/14 – For Immediate Release

Book review still coming; Quick News: How to view your website as Google does, GE’s new policy hub, setting up Twitter Cards for a WordPress blog, big changes with Google Authorship and Technorati; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Digging deeper into Faceb…

ICANN 50 DNSSEC Workshop Streaming Live TODAY From London

As we mentioned last week,  the DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN50 will take place from 8:30 – 14:45 London time TODAY, June 25, 2013 and will be streamed live via audio or via Adobe Connect (combined audio, slides and video).  More info can be found at: http://london50.icann.org/en/schedule/wed-dnssec The links for remote listening can be found there, as can the presentation slides.  The Read more…

Reminder – “DNSSEC For Everybody” Streamed Live From ICANN 50 Today

Just a quick reminder that, as we mentioned last week, the DNSSEC For Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide session today at ICANN 50 in London will be streamed live via audio or via Adobe Connect (combined audio, slides and video).  This is a fun session where we step back to caveman days to try to explain DNSSEC in the Read more…

Great To See Full (And Faster) IPv6 At ICANN 50 In London

Here at ICANN 50 in London (where I am focused on DNSSEC sessions) it was great to connect to the WiFi network and find that that I had full IPv6 connectivity.  Here’s a shot of the IPvFoo plugin for Chrome when I went to the main ICANN 50 website: Even more fascinating was how much faster Read more…

FIR #761 – 6/23/14 – For Immediate Release

Book review still coming; Quick News: FDA’s proposed healthcare social media rules, annoying LinkedIn notifications, new paid-editing Wikipedia rules, debate on ethics of wearables; Ragan promo; News That Fits: How Edelman enforces Wikipedia best pract…