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kijedaon Time zone database has new home after lawsuit

http://www.iana.org/time-zones

It is linked off the IANA homepage.

Not quite countless. There are 307 TLDs today, up from about 250 a decade ago. Most of this growth as been in non-Latin IDN domains (There are 21 gTLDs today, including .XXX)

There will however be a sea change in the future, ICANN is intending the open up applications for new gTLDs in 2012 that could see hundreds more TLDs added. So if adding the dozen or so new gTLDs in the last 10 years has seemed countless, it will get worse.

kijedaon Panic introduces the world's first emoji domain

The fact that this works reflects that fact Safari hasn't implemented the IDN standard fully, and neither has the .LA domain registry. Section 4.2.2 of RFC 5891 forbids the Emoji codepoints from being encoded in a valid IDN string.

kijedaon ICANN Approves generic top-level domains

Whether a raft of new generic top-level domains succeeds or fails depends on whether there is a mind shift in the average user from ".com" to ".anything". IMHO, the new entrants like .biz haven't succeeded because there hasn't been that shift yet.

Now, if Google starts using .google for its products, and other key services you use every day stop using .com as their primary URLs, I think that mind shift could happen and you could get a very different result.

kijedaon ICANN Approves generic top-level domains

No. There are 307 top-level domains right now and ICANN has added several dozen top-level domains in the last year and your regexp is probably already broken. You can be sure anyone using regular expressions has not been matching them correctly for some time. If you are using regexps, you're doing it wrong.

kijedaon ICANN Approves generic top-level domains

They are country-code top-level domains. Currently IDNs are limited to country representations only.

kijedaon An Aussie in NY

As an Australian in California, and having lived and worked in two European countries too, I'd say that Australians work less hours but actually are more focused when they do work. I see a lot Americans at work, but not doing work. Long lunches, chatting to colleagues around the office, browsing websites etc. seems to be far more prevalent in American workspaces.

kijedaon RIP Things

I was an early adopter of Things and I too have been disappointed with the multi-year march toward over-the-air synching. One of the things that suggests they haven't taken the issues seriously involves their current support for opportunistic synching over a local network using Bonjour discovery. The problem is, it is not encrypted — the entire contents of your database is sent in the clear on the local network. When the problem has been raised with them they have been dismissive, responding it is easily fixed by simply securing the Wifi network with a password. What that does to prevent the hundreds of others who use the same Wifi network from snooping on your data is not clear.

Fingers crossed they truly have re-architected to something useful. Sure, synching presents some challenges, but it is hard not to wonder how multiple programmers need over 2 years to add their #1 needed feature.

kijedaon The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe

Each ccTLD is delegated to a competent operator within the country it is designated. In almost all cases (except some historic ones) this is to an entity with approval of the national government of the country. They in turn set their own regulations on domain eligibility criteria, pricing and so forth.

So when you buy a .ME domain, you are subject to the relevant law and regulation of Montenegro, for .CO in Colombia, for .LY in Libya and so forth. If those countries elect to allow registrations outside their borders, that is their choice, but there is no external regulation on how they do that. They are accountable internally to the local Internet community of the country, and the local laws.

ICANN, on the other hand, is responsible for regulating many aspects for generic top-level domains (currently TLDs with 3 or more characters, such as .COM, .NET, .INFO).

kijedaon Internet Explorer 9 and Their Javascript Problem

Disagree. By that logic, when you pull up Hacker News' front page it should download "grayarrow.gif" 30 times - once each for each story it appears next to.

kijedaon Less Than 1 Year Until The Internet Runs Out of Addresses

Why North America? For the most part North America has mature deployment of Internet services. What is really driving IP address exhaustion right now is Asia where millions are coming online for the first time. They are the ones that will have a hard time when unused IPv4 addresses become scarce.

kijedaon Root DNS Zone Now DNSSEC Signed

1. Place a resolver on your laptop. Many believe we are moving to a world where the DNS logic is on each host, because we've moved beyond the time where you need to offload the heavy lifting of DNS processing to some remote server. Perform iteration locally.

2. NSEC3 doesn't allow zone walking. DNSSEC entirely gives you the option as to whether or not to allow zone walking.

3. That is not an artifact of DNSSEC, that is an artifact of the fact software vendors haven't come to consensus on an approach on richening their DNS APIs. Arguably this is a chicken and the egg problem, which is why many have felt it was more important to get zones signed and then software vendors can come to a an improved approved they can test against deployed zones.

4. Many believe DNSSEC will enable SSL to move to a model where certificates are published in the DNS, rather than blessed by third party CAs. Imagine self publishing certificates in the DNS for free rather than paying for costly validation by a company like VeriSign? Once the DNS is secure it provides the same level of trust that SSL vendors provide (i.e. that the domain is registered to you)

But the great thing is, if you don't like DNSSEC, you don't have to use it. End of story. It was designed to allow the DNS to run as-is if you decide not to turn it on.

kijedaon [dead]

My immediate thought when I read the original report of this was exactly this. I am Australian and I travel frequently - I have a 64-page passport which is mostly full with 100s of stamp, and is so worn the laminate is peeling off the ID page.

When I enter Australia in particular they often take it away to study and check, and advise me that I need to get it replaced or it will become a problem. I just had a customs official at Heathrow in the UK tell me the same just last month.

What's more realistic? They want him to replace his tattered passport, or everyone is out to get him?

kijedaon 'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live

The only such Persian URL is the URL ICANN deployed a number of years as part of its testing of IDNs.

http://مثال.آزمایشی

kijedaon 'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live

If the link works, but your browser's address bar shows the wire form with "xn--" in it, it is due to the browser's security policy. For example, Firefox will only display IDNs correctly for TLDs they approve of: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list...