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DNS Delegation Power
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Leaders
Warren Kumari Wanted a One-Bit TLD Fence. About 60 Pairs Were Already Inside.
He registered domain names one flipped bit away from familiar names and waited. The requests carried URLs and cookies. Then the neat registry rule he considered for new top-level domains ran into the names already on the books.
ICANN
ICANN Hired a Referee for the 2026 Domain Round. The Panels Keep the Whistle.
JAS Global Advisors will inspect how new top-level-domain applications are evaluated. Its findings can expose inconsistent calls; ICANN and the evaluators still control the remedy.
ICANN
ICANN Built an IDN Fast Lane. The Round Has 21 IDN Applications.
The GAC counted 21 internationalized-domain applications, about 1.3% of the 2026 round. ICANN’s draw can put IDNs first, but it cannot summon missing applicants.
IETF
One Domain, Three Certificate Robots, One Very Busy Doorbell
An IETF proposal gives each certificate automation account its own DNS validation address. The paperwork of who gets a doorbell is about to matter as much as the wiring.
ICANN
.kids Wrote the Rules on the Door. Researchers Read 176 Nameplates.
The .kids contract makes the domain name itself part of the child-safety test. A new study found 176 apparent problems without opening a site.
ICANN
The .kids Safety Promise Met a One-at-a-Time Complaint Form
The registry can suspend a domain. A researcher had hundreds of candidates to report and found a form built for one at a time. Where is the case clock?
CASE FILE
The Quantum Signature Saved Eleven Bytes. The DNS Packet Still Missed the Door
A `.nl` traffic replay found a slimmer Falcon signature and almost no change at the packet-size gate. Standards deserve a scale big enough for the whole answer.
ICANN
.kids Put Safety on the Gate. The Complaint Desk Needs a Clock.
The registry agreement gives .kids a child-safety rule and a complaints portal. A RIPE 93 study shows how much of the work between an external warning and a registry decision remains invisible.
ICANN
ICANN Says .nissay Can Sail Without a Successor—For Now
Nippon Life has asked to end the registry agreement. ICANN’s preliminary answer is that .nissay does not need a successor to protect the public interest, while the Brand TLD terms leave its operator a two-year consent gate on any handoff.
ICANN
A city name may need a letter. The GAC wants to open the envelope
The paperwork behind a new domain ending can decide whether an application moves forward. Governments in Bali now want the supporting letters brought into the light wherever disclosure rules allow.
ICANN
ICANN can put a safeguard in the contract. Who checks the lock?
A new domain ending can clear its application while acquiring extra duties on the way to a registry agreement. In Bali, governments asked the question that begins after the ink dries: who watches those duties in practice?
ICANN
ICANN Counted 1,615 Applications. The IDN Question Found Its Own Microphone.
The new gTLD round has a splendidly precise total and an awkwardly timed question about who is represented inside it. The Governmental Advisory Committee has supplied an early answer for internationalized domain names. ICANN's fuller category table is still on the calendar.
ICANN
ICANN gave applicants a discount. GAC wants the bill for the rest of the trip.
Fifty-six organisations qualified for help entering ICANN’s new-domain round. Governments now want to know what happens after the discounted entrance: legal objections, competing strings and the cost of staying in the game.
ICANN
ICANN’s new domains have a launch queue. The abuse rule has a committee.
Governments want registrars checking an abuser’s other domains before the next batch of top-level names enters the DNS. The demand has a clear finish line; the policy process does not yet have a finished rule.
ICANN
ICANN's Domain Rush Has 1,615 Bids. IDNs Got 21.
The application counter is busy. The language counter, much less so. A new government-adviser tally puts internationalized names at a sliver of the 2026 domain round—and below the share recorded in 2012.
CASE FILE
More Bad Months, Smaller Bad Crowds
A registration gate can face trouble often and still keep each outbreak small. ICANN's new Category 1 analysis asks the awkward question an average abuse rate dodges: did the guard stop entry, contain the crowd, or just move the cleanup bill?
ICANN
ICANN’s DNSSEC Fast Lane Has Two More Stops
ICANN is asking the public to review the security case for automating DNSSEC delegation-signature updates. The assessment it published still calls the IETF’s operational BCP a draft—even though RFC 10026 had been published by the time the comment window opened. The notice lists…
Leaders
Geoff Huston Set a DNS Trap. Ten Million Tests Missed the TCP Exit.
A DNS reply said “this is truncated.” The experiment watched whether resolvers took the standard route to a full answer. In a June 2024 APNIC Labs run, 2.67% of test points did not.
Leaders
Anand Buddhdev and the Glue Record That Sent RIPE’s DNSSEC Off Script
On a December afternoon, a small change in how DNS records were classified made parts of ripe.net fail validation. Buddhdev’s repair was a full re-sign, not a reboot with crossed fingers.
Leaders
Geoff Huston Added a Second DNS Server. The First One Got Quieter.
DNS has a way of asking the same question twice, then three times, then acting surprised by the bill. Geoff Huston counted the repeats at APNIC Labs. When his team gave resolvers a second authoritative nameserver, the traffic per test fell.