#verisign — Public Fediverse posts

Neil Fraser is in deep #mourning because his beloved ".name" domain—older than Facebook and iPhones, he assures us—is going the way of the dodo. 😢 Apparently, #ICANN and #Verisign are conspiring to rob him of his internet dinosaur exhibit, leaving his emails homeless. 🦖📧
https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/ #NeilFraser #Domain #Loss #InternetHistory #EmailDinosaur #HackerNews #ngated

192.82.134.0/24 being originated from 54 ASNs (as seen by bgp.tools) https://bgp.tools/prefix/192.82.134.0/24#connectivity

#Internet #Verisign

Exploring some insights of the #DNS root servers, and I discovered this small bump of NOTIMP repsonse codes of a.root-servers.net, operated by #Verisign. I checked other server instances with public statistics, and also k.root-servers.net, operated by #RIPE observed an uptick in REFUSED responses at around that time.

Does anyone have a clue what was going on last year shortly before the Christmas days?

#DNS #rootservers

I am just wondering, and this is a question to the #infosec community:

Can't you migrate a #TLD from one server to another including #DNSSEC by first testing your setup with a #canary zone? #Cloudflare speaks about challenges in having RSA/SHA256 on #Verisign's end, but ECDSA P-256 on their end.

I am just thinking, can't you kick this off by constructing a canary zone with similar parameters and test the migration & key-roll-over prior to touching any relevant zones?

Alternatively, sample the zone into chunks and migrate chunk by chunk?

Just a few thoughts on how to reduce risk of #DNSSEC during the migration from zones.

In January 2023, #Cloudflare replaced #Verisign in providing #DNS #registry services for the .gov #TLD. Besides the registry, they also run the authoritative #nameservers.

Verisign ran it for 12 years, and cost the #US #government apparently just half as much as Cloudflare charges ($7.2M).

Verisign loses prestive .gov contract to Cloudflare

#DigitalOcean outage on 28-Nov-2024 caused by, perhaps, an incompetent #NetworkSolutions person, followed by equally incompetent clueless #VeriSign executives, none of whom seemed to know how to order a fix to reverse a single mistake made by one person that lead to a major corporation bleeding revenue and reputation.

It took hours and hours, and many VeriSign executives getting involved, just to remove a single erroneous clientHold on a single domain. Really? None of them had any idea which manager to call?

Imagine if Network Solutions accidentally put a clientHold on your domain. You'd have to just kiss your domain goodbye because a lot of VeriSign executives will not be helping you.

"DigitalOcean is working with Network Solutions to understand what happened on their end that resulted in the clientHold being applied to our domain incorrectly. In addition, we are reviewing other domain registrars as possible new homes for our domains."

https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/jm44h02t22ck

I am sorry. But what is Congress's obsession with internet monopolies that aren't real? Why do they think that the internet consists of only one thing all the time? .com is not a monopoly and Verisign does not have a monopoly on TLDs.

#tld #verisign #uspol #monopoly
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/elizabeth-warren-calls-for-crackdown-on-internet-monopoly-youve-never-heard-of/

https://www.wired.com/story/elizabeth-warren-calls-for-crackdown-verisign/ #monopoly #verisign #domainnames

Sigh... If you've been around on the Internet long enough or worked in IT, you very well ought to know who VeriSign is, Ars Technica.

Ars Technica: Elizabeth Warren calls for crackdown on Internet "monopoly" you’ve never heard of

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/elizabeth-warren-calls-for-crackdown-on-internet-monopoly-youve-never-heard-of/

#VeriSign

#ElizabethWarren Calls for Crackdown on Internet ‘Monopoly’ You've Never Heard of

US senator Elizabeth Warren and congressman #JerryNadler have demanded the government investigate whether #VeriSign, steward of the .com domain, is ripping off customers and violating #antitrust laws.

https://www.wired.com/story/elizabeth-warren-calls-for-crackdown-verisign/

WTH, Verisign has raisen the prices of .com address again after a few years.

We need to break up Verisign, they are abusing their monopoly.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/06/verisign_well_talk_about_limiting/

#greed #monopoly #verisign

#Mailing lists are not only a great resource to stay in touch with latest #infosec news, but also to learn. I for instance wasn't aware that #verisign manages the root zones. To quote: " ICANN
administers, Verisign implements and NTIA funds the effort."

#dns #internet

WEBCAST APR 16: Universal Acceptance – What it is and how it relates to digital inclusivity?

On Tuesday April 16 2024 at 5:00pm-6:30pm EDT (21:00-22:30 UTC) American University's Tech, Law & Security Program, Internet Governance Lab, and Inclusive Tech Policy Initiative host a panel discussion 'Universal Acceptance - What it is and how it relates to digital inclusivity?'.

Have you

https://isoc.live/17661/

#post #AmericanUniversity #ICANN #ntia #PIR #UniversalAcceptance #Verisign

Sign this and tell Congress to stop letting Verisign profit hand over fist! They’re destroying the open internet by putting their profits first! #Verisign #Domain #domainname #webhosting

From: @nodespace
https://nodespace.social/@nodespace/110953373525137418

Is anyone in the #dns and #domain worlds aware of issues with #transfers at #Verisign? I initiated a transfer of a set of com/net/org domains five days ago but the com and net domains are still pendingTransfer several hours after the acDate elapsed.

#Verisign is being greedy and increasing wholesale prices of .com #domains a little. Apparently it's an annual trend.

I just got this email, seriously, how much money does Verisign needs?

They are raising .com prices to 13.95 a month.

Basically, it's more rent seeking and corporate greed while using inflation as another excuse.

#verisign