Comcast Now Enabling Users To Easily Find Out IPv6 Status In Their Area

Are you a Comcast customer wondering when you will ever get IPv6?  If so, we learned by way of a tweet over the weekend that Comcast has now made it easy for customers to know if they have IPv6 or will soon be getting it.  If you are a Comcast customer, you simply need to Read more…

TDYR #020 – Are You Planning For The Longevity Of Your URLs?

When you use a URL in a marketing campaign or for an event or other short-time occurrence, are you planning for the longevity of those URLs? Are you planning to keep it around after the event or campaign is over?

FIR #711 – 7/8/13 – For Immediate Release

Speakers and Speeches is up; Brian Solis speaking in London, FIR episodes will result; Quick News: Journalists trust elected officials more than PR people, Yellow Pages of social networks released, TSA Instagram account shows confiscated dangerous item…

The Legacy IP Only / IPv6 Horse And Buggy Stickers – How To Get Copies…

After we tweeted last week about the “Legacy IP Only” horse-and-buggy stickers that we received from Virginia Tech, we had a great number of people asking us about where to get these stickers.  As we noted in a subsequent tweet, the source of the sticker is Phil Benchoff at Virginia Tech and the image is Read more…

First Africa DNS Forum To Be Held July 12-13 In Durban, South Africa

What can African registries and registrars do to grow the domain name business in Africa? What role can the African governments play to empower registries and registrars? What can be learnt from successful registries and registrars operating outside Africa and adapted to strengthen their African counterparts? How can cross-border collaborations be setup to strengthen the Read more…

Comments? Olle’s Thoughts on SIP (VoIP) and DNSSEC / DANE

How you you think DNSSEC and specifically DANE could be used with the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to provide an added layer of security to voice / video communications over IP? (a.k.a. “VoIP”)   I started raising this question back in a presentation at SIPNOC 2013 and again in a recent VUC interview about DNSSEC and Read more…

TDYR #019 – On The Need For Time Offline – And Time For Reflection

In the fast-paced, always-on world of today, how do we carve out time when we disconnect and reflect on how pieces fit together? Do we need to go completely offline, as Baratunde Thurston recently did for 25 days? Do we need to schedule in some time …

4 Outstanding IPv6 Transition Videos From RIPE NCC

Want to understand what various IPv6 transition mechanisms are available to help you with the move to IPv6?  Interested in understanding the differences between “6in4″, “6RD”, “NAT64″ and “DS-Lite”? (Or what they even are?) If so, our friends over at the RIPE NCC have put together a set of four IPv6 transition videos that are Read more…

TDYR #018 – Happy Canada Day!

Today, July 1, is Canada Day, a national day of celebration in that country. In this brief episode I record a few brief thoughts about the five years we spent in Canada and the effect it has had on my life – and wish all Canadians a very happy Canada …

FIR #710 – 7/1/13 – For Immediate Release

Two interviews posted; Neville’s panel discussion coming; Brian Solis in London July 12; IABC update; Ragan promo; Quick News: Introducing NSA-proof font, astroturfing comes to EU, Vine sharing tanks after Instagram video introduced, Second Life turns …