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ROW15 - Call for Proposals
by Gould, James June 11, 2026

June 11, 2026

ROW15 Call for Proposals is Now Open! | September 29th, 2026 | 13:00 - 17:00 UTC | Zoom Video Conference Since 2014, the Registration Operations Workshop (ROW)<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1pk0lZbyQ1u8uTtMlrbQHqrx5pdz3rXOR3XP4sUKIvHUvJ…>, supported by our sponsors Verisign<https://www.verisign.com/> and ICANN<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1viPCJY0-NDtahlMS3Lc1uyIpjyQo8YP9o4ymXbSkUElkZ…>, and more recently CIRA<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1ukoBQpJS_B1QC4jlqDNcwP6zzm1808KRm6l6cR1JF7v7i…>, has brought together industry professionals, such as internet gTLD/ccTLD registries, domain name registrars, resellers, and many more, to share and discuss technical topics related to real-world experiences of implementing registration and maintenance operations. See all ROW events at: https://regiops.net/events<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1uDiFospBMNVjzke1H6_fyHhVNpL34YjS6rMaMOe3BMTiN…> The Program Committee is now accepting proposals for ROW15 and invites you to submit a brief abstract outlining your presentation or panel idea to row(a)cofomo.com<mailto:row@cofomo.com> by August 14th, 2026. We invite submissions guided by this non-exhaustive list of broad topics and welcome any discussions or suggestions for additional topics on ROW’s mailing list: regiops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:regiops@googlegroups.com>. * Operational impacts of registration technical refresh * Impact of AI in the registration ecosystem * RDAP implementation experience * EPP implementation experience * Implementation of NIS2 Directive * Best practices for DNSSEC Key management * Combating DNS abuse within registration (Global Signal Exchange, etc.) * Topics relevant to registration system protocols (Domain Connect protocol, etc.) * Digital Identity topics (eIDAS, etc.) * New gTLD application window and procedures * Supply Chain Security for Registries * RPKI Implementation Experience (...and any other registration protocol “experience”) The Program Committee will inform selected authors by August 24th, 2026. For other ROW15 important dates, checkout:https://regiops.net<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1pk0lZbyQ1u8uTtMlrbQHqrx5pdz3rXOR3XP4sUKIvHUvJ…>. We look forward to receiving your proposals. Please feel free to share this call for proposals with other mailing lists and contacts who may find it relevant. Thank you. ROW Program Committee https://regiops.net<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1pk0lZbyQ1u8uTtMlrbQHqrx5pdz3rXOR3XP4sUKIvHUvJ…> Email: row(a)cofomo.com<mailto:row@cofomo.com> ROW mailing list: regiops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:regiops@googlegroups.com> Connect with us: LinkedIn<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1LTs1K_VftzJ8KwHJs7SaRlOuMat6uGn7xf7dtetNkVbS7…> | X<https://x.com/ROWevents> | Bluesky<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1kEM0EuHM5lVcm_JviJlSTtux2GAwRM57ZD5KICbWqSFJF…> Event sponsored by Verisign<https://www.verisign.com/>, ICANN<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1viPCJY0-NDtahlMS3Lc1uyIpjyQo8YP9o4ymXbSkUElkZ…> & CIRA<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1ukoBQpJS_B1QC4jlqDNcwP6zzm1808KRm6l6cR1JF7v7i…> and organized by Cofomo<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1OCef_fwgclBZp_m-QoWo0cChsJnSmZIifVLR8c1xJ_h-q…> -- JG [cid87442*image001.png(a)01D960C5.C631DA40] James Gould Fellow Engineer jgould(a)Verisign.com<applewebdata://13890C55-AAE8-4BF3-A6CE-B4BA42740803/jgould@Verisign.com> 703-948-3271 12061 Bluemont Way Reston, VA 20190 Verisign.com<http://verisigninc.com/>

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Use of S/MIME in URS and UDRP: call for volunteers
by Gavin Brown June 11, 2026

June 11, 2026

Dear colleagues, During the recent Contracted Parties Summit in Manchester, we presented on the topic of updating the URS Technical Requirements to switch from using OpenPGP to S/MIME to provide authenticity and non-repudiation of communications between URS providers and registries and registrars. You may review the recording of the session at the following URL (skip to 24:05): https://icann.zoom.us/rec/share/edZd2ugiFPsRtSXIg7KtacuCVGwUhUPmXwrFQ0HUIBD… Some in the community have also observed that S/MIME may also provide a solution with similar cryptographic protection to UDRP communications. While ICANN Org’s research suggests that S/MIME is at least as effective as OpenPGP, we are acting upon feedback received from the CPH TechOps group, and are inviting interested parties to volunteer to participate in a short-term informal testbed. Participation would involve obtaining a S/MIME certificate from a Certificate Authority, and conducting tests by sending and receiving S/MIME-signed messages using a variety of devices, operating systems and mail clients. If you are interested in participating, please reply privately to this email to let me know. Regards, -- Gavin Brown Principal Engineer, Global Domains & Strategy Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) https://www.icann.org

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Call for Presentations Hybrid TechDay ICANN 86 Sevilla
by Dr Eberhard W Lisse May 18, 2026

May 18, 2026

vTechDay at ICANN 86 (Sevilla) The ICANN Tech Working Group is again planning a technical workshop at the ICANN 86 meeting (Sevilla) As the meeting will be hybrid so will be vTechDay which is currently penciled in for Monday, 2026-06-08 for blocks: Block 1 10:00 - 11:15 (75 minutes) Block 2 11:45 - 13:15 (90 minutes) All times are local (Sevilla) 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. DNS Abuse Prevention and Mitigation Tools 2. Best (security) management practices, lines of defense, to protect Registries from bad actors, attacks or malware, or even reports of failures 3. 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 in particular for the command line, devices and libraries, and novel uses for/of same. If there are enough proposals we might have round tables. 4. 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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Unusual update volumes for .site and .online zone files
by Joe Wein April 16, 2026

April 16, 2026

Recently we have seen elevated levels of new domains added to .online and .site, which triggered some internal monitoring here. Checking the addition counts for the last few months, we see a gap from around March 17 to April 12 during which *no* domains were added, followed by three days with levels of additions 2-5x "normal" levels (i.e. pre March 17), as if it was catching up with a backlog. Has anybody else see this and/or knows what happened there? Did they move to a different operator? Joe Wein SURBL

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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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Name Collision IPv6 Research Study - Public Comment
by Francisco Arias Oct. 30, 2025

Oct. 30, 2025

Dear colleagues, ICANN has opened a public comment period on a research study titled "Controlled Interruption IPv6 Research Study". The study focuses on extending ICANN's "controlled interruption" mechanism, previously implemented using only the IPv4 address 127.0.53.53 into the IPv6 realm, given the growing adoption of IPv6 (> 40 % of hosts). The public comment period runs from 20 October 2025 to 22 December 2025: https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/name-collision-ipv6-rese… Controlled interruption is a phase in the establishment of a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) that is designed to reduce the risk of name collision. During controlled interruption, certain DNS resource records, designed to interrupt resolution processes, are temporarily published at and below the gTLD name. The content of these DNS records is intended to minimize any harm that arises from such interruption. This study produces an initial list of candidate prefixes, followed by technical tests of multiple applications on popular end-user operating systems. The aim was to identify candidate addresses where DNS lookups returning that address did not result in any unintended external network traffic. A preferred candidate that met these criteria was identified: ffff:127.0.53.53, which is the IPV6 mapping of the original IPv4 controlled interruption address. -- Francisco.

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2nd Call for Presentations Hybrid TechDay ICANN 84 Dublin
by Dr Eberhard W Lisse Sept. 30, 2025

Sept. 30, 2025

All We have 15 minutes left in Block 5. el On 2025/08/26 18:00, Eberhard W Lisse via Ccnso-members wrote: > vTechDay at ICANN 84 (Dublin) > > The ICANN Tech Working Group is again planning a technical workshop > at the ICANN 84 meeting (Dublin) > > As the meeting will be hybrid so will be vTechDay which is currently > penciled in for Monday, 2025-10-27 for blocks: > > Block 2 10:45 - 12:15 > Block 3 13:15 - 14:30 > Block 4 15:00 - 16:00 > Block 5 16:30 - 17:30 > > All times are local (Dublin) 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. DNSSEC > > 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 > > > The ccNSO's DNS Abuse Committee has expressed an interest in > organizng a round table looking at detection/end-to-end case studies > from a (cc)TLD perspective and we are proposing Block 2 (ie 75 > minutes (including the opening remarks)). > > Interest in participating should be expressed by email to eitheror > all of > > Nick.Wenban-Smith(a)nominet.uk bruce.tonkin(a)auda.org.au > bart.boswinkel(a)icann.org > > keeping us in copy at ccNSO-techday(a)icann.org. > > 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 > -- Eberhard W. Lisse \ /Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (retired) 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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FW: ROW14 agenda & registration
by Hollenbeck, Scott Sept. 23, 2025

Sept. 23, 2025

FYI, folks. Remember, the workshop is scheduled for next Tuesday the 30th. Scott From: 'Row' via Regiops <regiops(a)googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 7:43 AM Subject: [EXTERNAL] [regiops] ROW14 agenda & registration Caution: This email originated from outside the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. ROW14<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1FGeiw9amzg3JmN8pZKPdUcQ-WKH-_NNoNBqm2u4j-Upa7…> Register now! | September 30th, 2025 | 13:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online Event The Program Committee<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1VuXiIxdyMpWjt0CKYlU24C98F_NoVU3q4IEjv3qZAJcvO…> is pleased to share the final agenda<https://secure-web.cisco.com/17yWS-FNuMlLLryBoC-B6WIe9-kj5E6fLgBNoJEbfams-J…> for ROW14, featuring insights into upcoming discussions and presentations. Presentation materials will be available on our website 24 hours before the session. Session recording will be posted within 24-48 hours after the event. 1. The Current State of RDAP - Andy Newton [ICANN] 2. Organization Validation PKI Certificate Automation with DNSSEC-Signed Attestations - Werner Staub [CORE Association] 3. An Update from the CENTR Registry Lock Task Force - Eric Skoglund [The Swedish Internet Foundation] 4. Provisioning Related Groups of Domain Objects in EPP - James Galvin [Identity Digital] 5. Towards an Industry Best Practice for DNSSEC Automation - Peter Thomassen [deSEC] 6. Domain Connect - a missing piece in DNS toolbox - Pawel Kowalik [DENIC eG] 7. Minimizing DNS Abuse in .lk Domains - A Balanced Approach Using Threat Intelligence and Domain Policies - Harsha Saparamadu [LK Domain Registry (.lk ccTLD)] 8. NIS2 Implementation in .at – Processes and EPP Extension - Alexander Mayrhofer [nic.at GmbH] 9. RDAP Bootstrap in Practice: Updates and Change Planning - James Mitchell [IANA] 10. Panel: Responsibly Bridging the Web2/Web3 Divide >>> Registration is required to enable participation! Attendance is free, but registration<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1SK2qcC4JTE560PYl2U1OJraxk0TwNfxRLhWst02Yt5CQY…> is required to receive Zoom login credentials. ROW events are open to all members of the domain name industry, including representatives from address, gTLD, and ccTLD registries, domain name registrars and resellers, second-level domain operators, academic institutions, and other interested stakeholders. >>> Workshop format To enhance engagement, this ROW session will place greater emphasis on the workshop aspect of the event. ••••••••• Each speaker will have 15 minutes for their presentation. The agenda includes two grouped Q&A sessions: o Q&A – Session A: For Presentations 1–5 (28 minutes) o Q&A – Session B: For Presentations 6–9 (28 minutes) ••••••••• The Panel session, planned at the end of the workshop, will explore various operational issues surrounding the responsible integration of Web3 domains into the existing public DNS infrastructure. The discussion, including panel questions and floor engagement, will be guided by our moderator as time permits. >>> Attendee Participation ••••••••••••••••••••• All attendees will be muted during the session. ••••••••• Please use the Zoom Q&A feature to submit questions or comments. ••••••••• Our session moderator will relay the questions to the speakers or may invite attendees to read their questions aloud. Unanswered questions will be addressed in the Q&A window or followed up by email after the session. >>> Zoom Here are some special tips if this is your first time using Zoom or you wish to get more familiar with its web conferencing capabilities: ••••••••• Download<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1FVXb0hLabXFV9ARGSRfInZ9P5YHZWjnf8Njkc7QLEFBNW…> the Zoom application to your computer or mobile phone or run Zoom from your web browser by navigating to join.zoom.us<http://secure-web.cisco.com/1WpHQXrzbzds-Ck5mDNf28WQIYNCa4E0vdct3WuUQon_ync…> and entering the meeting number and passcode. ••••••••• Want to try it out before ROW14? Join a Zoom test meeting<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1VB1gZOeAKcpH0It9egq2oCjiPdtwXjQNOkRhk4zw0jReB…> or access Zoom tutorials<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1wM50An4HHUjGQ5ihg-nRoK00nqMUJkladPntwGTSSseLV…>. If you have any questions, please contact us at: row(a)cofomo.com<mailto:row@cofomo.com>. Please feel free to share this message with other mailing lists and contacts who may find it relevant. We thank you and look forward to your participation! 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