FIR #748 – 3/24/14 – For Immediate Release

Two interviews coming; Quick News: longer brand videos get popular, Donna Papacosta and Steve Lubetkin working on business of podcasting book, two Augmented Reality campaigns make news, 20 ways to use the Twitter favorite button; Ragan promo; News That…

Watch/Listen Live TODAY To The “DNSSEC For Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide”

In just about 1.5 hours from now here at ICANN 49 in Singapore we’ll be part of the “DNSSEC For Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide” session.  Running from 17:00 – 18:30 Singapore time, the session will start at the very basic level of why should anyone care about DNSSEC and get into what kind of problem we are trying to Read more…

TDYR #136 – My 3-hour Sunday In London’s Airport

TDYR #136 – My 3-hour Sunday In London’s Airport by Dan York

Free DNSSEC Training May 22-23, 2014, in Stockholm, Sweden

Are you in Stockholm, Sweden, (or can easily get there) and interested in learning more about DNSSEC? If so, we’ve learned that the great folks at OpenDNSSEC will be offering a free two-day training class on May 22-23, 2014.  More info can be found at: http://www.opendnssec.org/support/trainings/ The agenda is online as are the study materials. Read more…

TDYR #135 – Why Curling Is So Awesome For Kids

TDYR #135 – Why Curling Is So Awesome For Kids by Dan York

Facebook’s Extremely Impressive Internal Use of IPv6

Wow!  At the v6 World Congress this week in Paris (where Chris and Jan were), Facebook’s Paul Saab gave a very impressive presentation about what Facebook has gone through to convert its internal network over to IPv6.  Paul has now posted his presentation online (in the IPv6 Group on Facebook, of course) and the story Read more…

TDYR #134 – Heading To Singapore For ICANN 49 To Talk DNSSEC

I’m heading to Singapore for the ICANN 49 meeting happening there. My focus is on the technical side related to making the Internet more secure via DNSSEC … but a great focus of the meeting will be all about Internet governance issues… More on w…

Turkey’s Ban On Twitter Will Inadvertently Cause A Rise In DNSSEC Validation

Today the media is buzzing with the news of the Turkish government banning Twitter and even more with the fact that citizens are figuring out ways around that.  ”The Internet routes around censorship“, as the saying goes (or close to that). There are predictably MANY tweets out there on hashtags like #TurkeyBlockedTwitter and #TwitterBlockedInTurkey. And many Read more…

Google Is Now Always Using TLS/SSL for Gmail Connections

We were pleased today to read that Google is now changing their Gmail service to always use TLS-encrypted connections. As they note in their announcement blog post: Starting today, Gmail will always use an encrypted HTTPS connection when you check or send email. Gmail has supported HTTPS since the day it launched, and in 2010 we made HTTPS the Read more…

Last Day To RSVP For ICANN 49 DNSSEC Implementers Gathering March 26 in Singapore

Will you be at ICANN 49 in Singapore next week?  And are you deploying  DNSSEC and interested in meeting with others who are also doing so? As we mentioned earlier this week, there are three sessions at ICANN 49 focused on DNSSEC and one of those is  an “informal gathering of DNSSEC implementers” on the evening of March Read more…