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October 08
DNS Flag day
There are times when decisive action is the straightest path to success. Starting from 1 February 2019, the organisations behind open source DNS software implementations are going to deploy changes to their code that could break your domains.
Read moreJuly 29
Domain popularity across countries
As the DNS operator of .nz, we manage 4 of the 7 .nz nameservers ourselves and we've been collecting their DNS traffic.
Read moreJune 08
Source Address Classification - Clustering
My previous post "Source Address Classification - Feature Engineering" introduced the background of the source address classification problem and a critical part of the work - generating the features to be fed into a machine learning model.
Read moreMay 28
Analysis of registrations from registrant point of view
This is a follow-up post on registrant classification. Before reading this post, check out Registrant Classification using Machine Learning (19 Feb 2018).
Read moreMay 15
.nz is joining fellow domain industry leaders at GDD Industry Summit
I’m currently attending the ICANN organisation’s Global Domains Divison (GDD) Industry Summit being held in Vancouver, Canada.
Read moreMarch 21
Source Address Classification - Feature Engineering
As we operate the authoritative name servers for the .nz ccTLD, we observe more than 500k unique source addresses sending DNS queries to us every day.
Read moreFebruary 19
Registrant Classification using Machine Learning
As .nz registry, we collect some information about registrants during the registration process, including the registrant’s name, with no distinction between individuals or organisations.
Read moreJanuary 15
Registrar Size Prediction (Jan 2018)
An interesting request we received after the register size prediction presentation at the Registrar Conference earlier last year, was a suggestion of applying similar methodology on the data per registrar.
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