ICANN-Domainvergabe: Queere Initiative will .meow registrieren lassen
Die gemeinnützige Organisation dotMeow will eine eigene gTLD bei der ICANN beantragen. Zur Finanzierung hat die Stiftung eine Crowdsourcing-Kampagne gestartet.
Malware, Betrug & Co.: Riskantes Domain-Chaos der Bundesregierung enthüllt
Die Regierung hütet geheime Listen ihrer Webseiten, was die Sicherheit der Bürger gefährdet. Nun schafft die Veröffentlichung von über 2000 Domains Fakten.
ICANN nimmt 2026 wieder Anträge für neue generische Top-Level-Domains entgegen
Nach rund 14 Jahren vergibt die ICANN erneut gTLD für spezielle Domain-Endungen wie .bielefeld oder .pc. Das wird aber nicht billig für die Antragsteller.
Digitales Vertrauen in Gefahr: Wenn Behörden ihre alten Domains vergessen
Aufgegebene Webadressen staatlicher Stellen werden zum Einfallstor für Desinformation und Betrug. Der Bund agiert ohne einheitliche Regeln und intransparent.
Guess who misremembered having 25 seconds per slide and instead has 15 seconds per slide on Monday?
FML! :)
Goodness, I hate formalistic presentation styles like Ignite. But don’t worry, I’m breaking the form three times in the talk – including starting with a minute of silence for Gaza (that’s four black slides and 1/5th of the 5-minute talk), a transition (ok, it’s a 15-second transition, but still), and a live demo (yep) – and using that to demonstrate the case that we do not have to accept the rigid confines of the status quo, that resistance and sabotage are always options, and that the way things are is just raw materials for the way things can be. That said, constraints are also good so the reduced slide duration will only make my talk more impactful if I edit it down right, it just means more work… and more than one thing can be true at the same time. ;)
If you’re in Dublin/Ireland and want to drop by, there are no tickets and it’s first-come first-served:
ICANN will have a new policy on domain ownership effective August 21st.
If your domain registration includes a company name, the company owns the domain, not you. Even if you use your first/last name AND a company, the company reigns.
So if your domain is yours and no one else’s, make sure it’s properly registered to you: leave the company name empty.
Google rudert zurück: Manche Links mit URL-Shortener goo.gl bleiben funktional
Eigentlich sollte goo.gl Ende August komplett abgeschaltet werden. Doch nun kommt die Kehrtwende. Einige Kurzlinks werden laut Google weiterhin funktionieren.
Googles URL-Shortener goo.gl wird ab Ende August nur noch 404-Fehler zeigen
Der Dienst zur Abkürzung langer Internetadressen ist bereits 2018 eingestellt worden. Bestehende Weiterleitungen mit goo.gl funktionieren in Kürze nicht mehr.
I've just spent the pass week and half getting back some of my domains as I stupidly disconnected my google account when not setting a password to my account my domain hoster.
I will NOT be doing that again especially when my email has been messing up lately.
Morning all! I was supposed to join
@screwlisp for their Lispy Gopher Show podcast yesterday but time zone differences meant I had to send a recording instead which they discussed with questions from their mud (yep, it’s a geeky community) :)
I touched on the history of computing, the current challenge to our human rights and democracy with technofascism, and how the Small Web is one attempt to safeguard our freedoms by creating a peer-to-peer web owned and controlled by everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing. (And the role of design and simplicity in making that possible.)
Anyway, here’s the full recording I sent (as it skips around a bit in the show):
Look Over There! lets you forward multiple domains to different URLs with full HTTPS support.
Why?
We have a number of older sites that are becoming a chore/expensive to maintain and yet I don’t want to break the web. So I thought, hey, I’ll just use the “url forwarding” feature of my domain registrar to forward them to their archived versions on archive.org.
Ah, not so fast, young cricket… seems some domain registrars’ implementations of this feature do not work if the domain being forwarded is accessed via HTTPS (yes, in 2025).
So, given Kitten¹ uses Auto Encrypt² to automatically provision Let’s Encrypt certificates, I added a domain forwarding feature to it and created Look Over There! as a friendly/simple app that provides a visual interface to it.
To see it in action, hit https://cleanuptheweb.org and you should get forwarded to the archived version of it on archive.org. I’m going to be adding more of our sites to the list in the coming days as part of an effort to reduce my maintenance load and cut down our expenses at Small Technology Foundation.
Since it’s Small Web, this particular instance is just for us. However, you can run your own copy on a VPS (or even a little single-board computer at home, etc.) A link to the source code repository is on the site. Once Domain³ is ready for use (later this year 🤞), setting up your own instance of a Small Web app at your own server will take less than a minute.
I hope this little tool, along with the 404→307 (evergreen web) technique⁴, helps us to nurture an evergreen web and avoid link rot. (And the source code, as little as there is because Kitten does so much for you, is a good resource if you want to learn about Kitten’s new class-based component and page model which I haven’t yet had a chance to properly document.)
Screenshot of the authenticated /admin route on Look Over There!, running at look-over-there.small-web.org.
There are instructions for setting up DNS to point to the IP address on the server for the domains you want to forward and a list of Active redirections (there’s just one for now, for cleanuptheweb.org, which forwards to a URL on archive.org.
There’s also an add redirection form with a from field for the domain an arrow and a to field for the URL to forward to, followed by an Add button. For entries in the Active redirections section, the Add button is replaced with a Remove button.
There’s also a Made with Kitten button with a minimalist grey kitten face logo with pink ears.
Intructions, full text:
Create a DNS A record pointing to 157.90.155.45 for the domain you want to redirect.
Wait for your DNS changes to propagate (ping the domain to check).
Add your redirection using the form below.
Due to Let’s Encrypt rate limits, you may add 97 more redirections (maximum 10 every 3 hours).
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