January 2026 - gtld-tech - lists.icann.org

Call for Presentations Hybrid TechDay ICANN 85 Mumbai
by Dr Eberhard W Lisse Feb. 16, 2026

Feb. 16, 2026

vTechDay at ICANN 85 (Mumbai) The ICANN Tech Working Group is again planning a technical workshop at the ICANN 85 meeting (Monbay) As the meeting will be hybrid so will be vTechDay which is currently penciled in for Monday, 2025-10-27 for blocks: Block 2 10:30 - 12:00 (90 Min) Block 3 13:15 - 14:30 (75 min) Block 4 15:00 - 16:00 (60 min) Block 5 16:30 - 17:30 (60 min) All times are local (Mumbai) time. We shall try to accommodate the time zone of virtual presenters in setting the agenda. The TechDay workshop has been a part of ICANN meetings since 2006 and has provided a forum for both experienced and new people to meet, present and discuss technical topics related to registry and DNS work and security. We are specially interested in: 1. UA/IDN In this respect we are anticipating a round table organized by the ccNSO-UA Committee. Please engage with them via email at ccnso-uacommittee(a)icann.org, keeping us in copy at ccNSO-techday(a)icann.org. 2. DNS Abuse Prevention and Mitigation Tools 3. Best (security) management practices, lines of defense, to protect Registries from bad actors, attacks or malware, or even reports of failures 4. Open Source Tools that have been found helpful a) We would in particular like to hear about git based DNS zone management, especially simple setups usable as example for other (smaller) (cc|g)TLDs. b) We would also like to hear about further RDAP client implementations for the command line, devices and libraries. If there are enough proposals we might have round tables. 5. In addition, we welcome suggestions for additional topics If you are interested in presenting on any other topic, please email us at ccNSO-techday(a)icann.org or reply to this email. We hope that you can join us and request that you disseminate this Request to other lists where it might of interest. greetings, el -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist el(a)lisse.NA / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 Bachbrecht \ / If this email is signed with GPG/PGP 10007, Namibia ;____/ Sect 20 of Act No. 4 of 2019 may apply

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.taipei zone access via czds
by Jan Schaumann Jan. 14, 2026

Jan. 14, 2026

Hey, Talking about having trouble getting access to certain zones: Has anybody here been able to get access to the .taipei zone? I've repeatedly submitted requests that were always shut down with a note saying: --- Reason: Requester did not provide correct or legitimate credentials (explain why) Explanation: Please provide a complete address, a telephone number and associated FTP IP address and resubmit your request for approval. --- For each request, I _did_ in fact provide all that information. I've also tried to reach out to the contacts listed on https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/taipei.html / whois, but the technical contact never replied and the administrative contact email address bounces. (I've filed a request with ICANN to update the information.) If anybody here managed to get access to the zone, would you mind sharing how you went about that? Thanks! -Jan

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.TOP made inactive? (CZDS zone file access)
by John McCormac Jan. 13, 2026

Jan. 13, 2026

Just got an e-mail that ZFA for .TOP had been revoked as the gTLD had been made inactive. "Request revoked as TLD has been made inactive." Checked another stats site and it was showing 0 domain names in the zone which may indicate that it didn't get today's zone. Has .TOP gTTLD been made inactive or is this a problem on the CZDS or with the .TOP registry? Regards...jmcc -- ********************************************************** John McCormac * e-mail: jmcc(a)hosterstats.com MC2 * web: http://www.hosterstats.com/ 22 Viewmount * Domain Registrations Statistics Waterford * Domnomics - the business of domain names Ireland * https://amzn.to/2OPtEIO IE * Skype: hosterstats.com ********************************************************** -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com

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