From the humble beginnings of ARPANET to the birth of the internet as we know it today, domain registrars have been the silent architects of our online activity. Now, as we stand on the cusp of the Web3 revolution, domains are set to undergo yet another profound transformation. Internet innovations have given us a remarkable …
There have been a number of occasions when the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has made a principled decision upholding users’ expectations of privacy in their use of IETF-standardised technologies. (Either that, or they were applying their own somewhat liberal collective bias to the technologies they were working on!) The first major such incident that …
Darmstadt and Frankfurt, February 13, 2024 The National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE has uncovered a critical flaw in the design of DNSSEC, the Security Extensions of DNS (Domain Name System). DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet. The design flaw has devastating consequences for essentially all DNSSEC-validating DNS implementations …
This TLD, unlike others, would never be delegated in the global domain name system (DNS) root, effectively keeping it segregated from the broader internet. ICANN, a non-profit organisation responsible for overseeing the DNS and establishing policies for new generic TLDs, started discussions about a reserved TLD for private networks in September 2020. The aim was …
With 62% of peers, SA has more peers at its seven exchanges than the rest of Africa put together, says ICANN. South Africa’s internet ecosystem is more advanced that those of its African counterparts. This is according to the draft final report of the 2023 Africa Domain Name Industry Study, by the Internet Corporation for …
The quantum computing era is coming, and it will change everything about how the world connects online. While quantum computing will yield tremendous benefits, it will also create new risks, so it’s essential that we prepare our critical internet infrastructure for what’s to come. That’s why we’re so pleased to share our latest efforts in …
A list of popular websites went down and started showing a ‘500 Internal Server Error’ on Tuesday due to an issue affecting content delivery network (CDN) Cloudflare. Affected Web-based services included Discord, Canva, and NordVPN, among others. Some people were even not able to understand the scope of the outage on Ookla’s DownDetector, which is …