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	<title>&#45; CircleID</title>
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	<description>Postings from  on CircleID</description>
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		<title> Solving the "Fake Twitter Profile" Problem Using DNS (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20220805-solving-the-fake-twitter-profile-problem-using-dns</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, an article I wrote for Bitcoin Magazine talked about how we can use DNS underscore scoping to better abstract Lightning addresses and even create a de facto specification that could work on any resource (like a wallet or a smart contract) across all blockchains. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20220805-solving-the-fake-twitter-profile-problem-using-dns">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> New Book: Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts20190115_new_book_managing_mission_critical_domains_dns</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20190115_new_book_managing_mission_critical_domains_dns</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The idea behind my recent book "Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS" is to provide a unifying overview around the area of domains and naming where I think there exists an artificial divide, and that divide exists between domain policy, and managing ones' domain portfolio; and the DNS ops side of things: running your nameservers or outsourcing to a vendor, or both. I've been doing this for over 20 years, I've seen almost every failure condition that can happen to your domain or DNS... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20190115_new_book_managing_mission_critical_domains_dns">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Lessons Learned from the Namejuice/DROA/DROC Outage (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20180919_lessons_learned_from_the_namejuice_droa_droc_outage</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week an ICANN registrar, Namejuice, went off the air for the better part of the day -- disappearing off the internet at approximately 8:30 am, taking all domains delegated to its nameservers with it, and did not come back online until close to 11 pm ET. That was a full business day and more of complete outage for all businesses, domains, websites, and email who were using the Namejuice nameservers -- something many of them were doing. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20180919_lessons_learned_from_the_namejuice_droa_droc_outage">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Why You Must Learn to Love DNSSEC (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts20180619_why_you_must_learn_to_love_dnssec</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20180619_why_you_must_learn_to_love_dnssec</link>
		<description><![CDATA[It's been nearly two months since the high profile BGP hijack attack against MyEtherwallet, where crypto thieves used BGP leaks to hijack MEW's name servers, which were on Amazon's Route53, and inserted their own fake name servers which directed victims to their own fake wallet site, thereby draining some people's wallets. It generated a lot of discussion at the time... What isn't fully appreciated is that attack has, in fact, changed the game somewhat... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20180619_why_you_must_learn_to_love_dnssec">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> New gTLDs Are Great for Pump-and-Dumps, Phishes and More... (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts20150715_new_gtlds_are_great_for_pump_and_dumps_phishes_and_more</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20150715_new_gtlds_are_great_for_pump_and_dumps_phishes_and_more</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, egregious financial truth-tellers (a client of ours at easyDNS) ZeroHedge broke the news that parties unknown, engineered what looks to be a textbook "pump-and-dump" on Twitter's stock by putting up a fake "Bloomberg Financial News" site on the domain bloomberg.market and proceeded to run a story on it about Twitter being acquired. The story spread and shares of Twitter stock promptly spiked on volume, Twitter finishing the day on nearly double the average daily volume. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20150715_new_gtlds_are_great_for_pump_and_dumps_phishes_and_more">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Confessions of an Ex-Opponent of Whois Privacy (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20150703_confessions_of_an_ex_opponent_of_whois_privacy</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is the easyDNS response to ICANN's public comment period on GNSO Privacy &amp; Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Working Group Initial Report. The public comment period is open until July 7, 2015. We strongly urge you to make your voice known by signing the petition over at Save Domain Privacy. I submit these comments as a CEO of an ICANN accredited registrar, a former director to CIRA and a lifelong anti spam contributor with an unblemished record of running a managed DNS provider that maintains zero tolerance for net abuse or cybercrime... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20150703_confessions_of_an_ex_opponent_of_whois_privacy">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Nameserver Operators Need the Ability to "Disavow" Domains (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20141202_nameserver_operators_need_the_ability_to_disavow_domains</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday's DDoS attack against DNSimple brought to light a longstanding need for DNS nameserver operators to have an ability to unilaterally repudiate domains from their nameservers. The domains under attack started off on DNSMadeEasy, migrated off to DNSimple and took up residence there for about 12 hours, causing a lot of grief to DNSimple and their downstream customers. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20141202_nameserver_operators_need_the_ability_to_disavow_domains">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Dear Industry Canada, Is Now a Good Time to Replace CIRA? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20140624_dear_industry_canada_is_now_a_good_time_to_replace_cira</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we have sent following to the Minister of Industry Canada, James Moore, as well as the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Board of Directors. This is in response to the revelation that CIRA is positioning to enter the managed DNS space. As we outline in the letter, we are fine with more competition (in fact Google just entered the domain and DNS space too... No, competition is a fact of life, what we want is more of it, not less. Here's what we wrote to The Honourable James Moore. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140624_dear_industry_canada_is_now_a_good_time_to_replace_cira">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Domains Locked in London Police Takedown Ordered to Be Transferred (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts20140109_domains_locked_in_london_police_takedown_ordered_to_be_transferred</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20140109_domains_locked_in_london_police_takedown_ordered_to_be_transferred</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Arbitration Forum has just handed down its decision in respect to the three domain names locked down at Public Domain Registry in response to the City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit takedown requests. The decision is in favour of easyDNS and orders the three names to be transferred to us. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140109_domains_locked_in_london_police_takedown_ordered_to_be_transferred">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Registrars That Complied With "Shakedown" Requests May Now Be in Violation of ICANN Transfers Policy (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts20131010_domain_registrars_that_complied_with_shakedown_requests_violation</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20131010_domain_registrars_that_complied_with_shakedown_requests_violation</link>
		<description><![CDATA[At the time we posted 'Whatever Happened To Due Process,' we were unaware that we were just one of many registrars receiving these notices from the London (UK) Police. We have since been made aware that this was part of a larger initiative against the BitTorrent space as a whole, and that most if not all of the other registrars in receipt of the same email as us folded rather quickly and acquiesced to the shakedown orders. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20131010_domain_registrars_that_complied_with_shakedown_requests_violation">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> The Case for Hot Swappable Nameservers (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts20120206_the_case_for_hot_swappable_nameservers</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20120206_the_case_for_hot_swappable_nameservers</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week we announced our "Proactive Nameservers", which is just marketing speak for what it really is: hot swappable nameservers or nameserver fail over. What is it? ... It's basically what every webmaster, IT department and CTO wishes they had set up before... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20120206_the_case_for_hot_swappable_nameservers">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> How SOPA Will Destroy The Internet (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts20111222_how_sopa_will_destroy_the_internet</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20111222_how_sopa_will_destroy_the_internet</link>
		<description><![CDATA[As you read this, please keep in mind that I say it all with a track record nearly 14 years of being proactive and having a zero-tolerance policy toward criminal activity and network abuse on our system. We have great relationships with Law Enforcement Agencies both here in Canada and abroad. We are always helpful and (usually) happy to answer questions, and help LEA understand the complexities and nuances of the internet. We've had the good fortune to meet some really intelligent and clued in cybercrime units. We participate in numerous communities in combating net.abuse and cybercrime. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20111222_how_sopa_will_destroy_the_internet">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> The Domain Aftermarket Redux: Are Domainers "Investors" Yet? (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/poststhe_domain_aftermarket_redux_are_domainers_investors_yet</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/poststhe_domain_aftermarket_redux_are_domainers_investors_yet</link>
		<description><![CDATA[What better way to kick things off than to review the domain aftermarket, three years after my then infamous <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_aftermarket_asset_repricing/">"Domain Aftermarket Overdue For An Asset Repricing"</a> article which caused a bit of a stir at the time. I said then that there was a big recession coming, in it <em>everything</em> would suffer severe price declines, and that domain names would not be exempt. I went on to say that the low-hanging fruit in the domain industry had been picked: type-in activity would go into secular decline over time, and that domainers would face increasing competition from other avenues such as DNS resolvers, ISPs and web browsers. It didn't go over well. <a href="https://circleid.com/poststhe_domain_aftermarket_redux_are_domainers_investors_yet">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Whois Masking Considered Harmful (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts20081120_whois_masking_considered_harmful</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20081120_whois_masking_considered_harmful</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever you register a domain name, your contact details are published in a publicly visible database called "Whois", where your contact details are instantly harvested by spambots and marketers who proceed to email and postal mail you marketing offers, deceptive "domain slamming" attempts, ads for dubious products, and perhaps even telemarketing calls. Nobody likes that, so over the years people started resorting to various tactics to protect themselves from the deluge of crap that inevitably comes with simply registering a domain name... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20081120_whois_masking_considered_harmful">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Are Domain Names Recession-Proof? Probably Not, Next Question? (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts81283_domain_names_recession_proof_not</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/posts81283_domain_names_recession_proof_not</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn't see the Fortune article <a href="http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/01/25/are-domain-names-recession-proof/">Are domain names recession proof</a> until the weekend, and being the author of the now infamous <a href="http://www.privateworld.com/archives/73-Domain-Aftermarket-Overdue-for-an-Asset-Repricing.html">Domain aftermarket overdue for an asset repricing</a> last year I feel somewhat obligated to comment on it. So, how will domain names fare in a recession? The Fortune article was upbeat... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts81283_domain_names_recession_proof_not">More...</a>]]></description>
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