Galium OpenNIC Whois Server Live June 26, 2012 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment The whois server for the .ing top level domain is now live. You will be able to see when domains were first registered with register.ing. The server has been written in nodejs, which is an event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8 (the fastest Javascript engine, written by Google and included with Chrome). whios.js listens […] Read more » .ing whois
OpenNIC Feeling small? Try .micro October 13, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Ever tried to register a domain name, and realise, there is nothing that identifies something small? I mean, sure, there is .com for commercial enterprises, and there is .net for big network (companies) and even .org for national/international organisations, but what about if you want to do something… small? Well, your good friend is now […] Read more » .micro dns OpenNIC
Galium OpenNIC Galium 0.29 hotfix August 11, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment What’s fixed in this hotifx? Domain Cron is less verbose Started removing hard coded values inside the domain cron. Fixed a bug in the domain cron; where a domain would not be marked as being updated when it had beed Included the missing ‘switch’ function… woops! Galium 0.29 hotfix Read more » Galium open source OpenNIC PHP
OpenNIC giv.ing some lov.ing to Galium August 10, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment In around six hours (in other words, in 24 hours, knowing me) I am going to be releasing an update to Galium, which will finally allow (after how many weeks?) using the name servers from the top level domain, but allowing users to specify their own DNS records. In other words, DNS records would be […] Read more » .geek .gopher .ing Galium updates
OpenNIC A .firm Top Level Domain? August 3, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Hi, Prior to writing a charter I hope to determine how well received .firm will be as a top level domain. The domain will be for users who want to establish any kind of presence in the OpenNIC name space, commercial or non commercial. This would be the alternate ‘.com’ , more or less but […] Read more » .firm OpenNIC
Misc OpenNIC The modern BBS August 2, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Ahhh, the modern BBS. Let’s examine it. The modern BBS (which has yet to be given a name) is a mini hackathon project that I am doing to give some life to the rotting away OpenNIC “.bbs” top level domain. I am going to operate a bulitin board system, but update it a little at […] Read more » .bbs OpenNIC Perl retro SSH
OpenNIC How to run your own Top Level Domain July 31, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | 5 Comments on How to run your own Top Level Domain What does it take to run a Top Level Domain Registry? And what’s more easy to run: a ccTLD or gTLD? Opinions so far have ranged from “it’s easy” to “it’s a serious business” – both of which are obviously far too vague to being to measure what is an intriguing question. Some suggestions fall […] Read more » cctld gtld icann OpenNIC TLD top level domain
OpenNIC Preparing galium TLD software to do new tricks July 28, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment I am currently working on the next version of galium, the software that runs the .ing top level domain name. This update will be minor upgrade-wise (going from a 0.2 to a 0.3), but will provide a few new features, and will pave the way to galium 1.0. What Galium 0.3 will do: Enforce domain […] Read more » .ing Galium MyInfo OpenNIC
OpenNIC Galium update comming in the next 20 minutes July 27, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment My Galium top level domain software will get a minor update soon, which will fix a few [minor] outstanding issues. Usernames can now contain the “-” character The zone file generator will not always give the outputted revision as being “0” (this stopped all updates from not appearing on slave DNS servers until the following […] Read more » .ing Galium OpenNIC PHP TLD updates
OpenNIC “dot ing” or “.ing” … it’s still the best TLD! July 27, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Call it what you want, but I stiill think that .ing (or dotING as I have named it) is one of the best top level domains that is around at the moment. All you need to take advantage of dotING is to be a user of OpenNIC. OpenNIC is a community effort to create an […] Read more » dns OpenNIC TLD