Time for some R&R!

After a buzzy spring touring the world as a part of my new adventure its finally time for some R&R. For those of you who know me, you know what that means. Yeap! Im going to the greek isles again.

Just as last year we are starting from Pireus, going to Naxos for a few days and after that no one knows what happens. There have been some discussions about Ios for some mixed relaxation and partying but we wont be sure until we get there.

To recap the last few weeks I have spent a good deal of time in Stockholm, which is beautiful this time of year. I managed to sneak into WPBar to present myself to a few of the guys and girls that will be joining up for Swedish Social Media Camp in August.

The last week has been all about ICANN. This time its in Brussels and I must say that it has been a good week. We managed to get a lot of good meetings done and I finally finished the last things needed before I can sneak of to Greece.

Regards,

LG

In business for real

It has been one crazy month since I joined up with .Nu Domain as their Director of Marketing. I have had the pleasure meeting up with quite a number of our registrars and I have started to get the social media machine going.

During all of this I have gotten to know a bunch of new people, which is a bonus to the job that I don’t take lightly! I have had the time to release a few press messages, meet up with potential partners and plan the first few months of marketing activities.

All in all its been a really good month. The latest news is that one of our Swedish registrars, Binero, took some time to really get to know me. It ended up in an interview posted at their blog today!

Have fun reading, and dont forget to check .NU out at Twitter, Facebook and myNewsdesk!

Regards,

LG

The End of an Era and the Start of a New

As you may have gathered from my last few posts there are big things in the works. Today I finally get to shed some light on to what those things are. For the last three months I have been wrapping up six years of work with a new goal in mind. On tuesday the twenty third of February I left my employment at Loopia. It has been a great place to work and I have gotten to know some of the best people in the business as my friends.

However, to further challenge myself and and see more then one side of the coin I wanted to do something new. I wanted my new job to be a mix of a great many things but the most important parts where social interaction, responsibility, marketing, product and brand development and Internet related services and technology. As my main expertise lies with domain names it would not be a wild guess that I would have something to do with that even after my change of employer.

Just a few moments ago I published the first of many press releases that I will be doing. It handles the subject of me being recruited as Director of Marketing for .NU Domain ltd. As most of you know or understands by the name we are talking about the registry for the .NU top level domain.

The Swedish version of the press release is available at myNewsdesk, a quick and dirty english version is available here.

Regards,

LG

Deliberately Invalidatable Root Zone

A few days ago we saw something that has not happened before. One of the root-servers of the Internet was DNSSEC-enabled, signed, secured.. or was it? No, it was not really secured was it? Nope! BUT! The DNSSEC-enabled part of it is true, or at least a little bit of it.

One of the root-server instances, the L-root , had it’s copy of the root-zone signed. However, for now, the public key distributed is obviously broken and unusable (thanks Patrik!).

I for one think the DNSKEY record is cute!

IN  DNSKEY  257  3  8 (
AwEAAa8Zp+++++THIS/IS/IN/AN/INVALID/
KEY/AND/CANNOT/BE/USED/FOR/VALIDATIO
N/PLEASE/CONTACT/ROOTSIGN/AT/ICANN/D
OT/ORG/FOR/MORE/INFORMATION+++++++++
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++++++++++8=
);

The “system” is called DURZ (Deliberately Invalidatable Root Zone) and the plan is to put it to use in all of the the root-server instances before moving on in the implementation of DNSSEC for the root-zone.

Why? Well, first and foremost DURZ is for testing purposes. While the signed root-zone is still not considered as “in production” it will prohibit the use of the root-zone as a trust anchor for validation. During this period of time testing will f.ex. give measures of how the signed root-zone (larger response size etc) affects whoever uses it.

The implementation of DURZ will span all of the root-server instances and is planned to be done in May this year. A schedule has been posted on the Root DNSSEC site. Do I think they will stick to it? Why of course not.. How fun would that be?

M: 2010-03-03 0400-0600
I: 2010-03-03 1500-1800
D: 2010-03-24 1400-1500
K: 2010-03-24 1500-1700
E: 2010-03-24 1800-2000
H: 2010-04-14 1400-1500
C: 2010-04-14 1500-1700
G: 2010-04-14 1700-1900
B: 2010-04-14 1900-2100
F: 2010-04-14 2100-0000
J: 2010-05-05 1700-1900

All times are in UTC.

When all the root-servers are serving the DURZ I expect that a period of statistics and measurements will commence, the goal being to pinpoint any side effects from the fact that the root-zone is signed, bloated and well, lets just call it pregnant with what may be the savior of DNS.

This sounds like a great start for a fantasy novel but all that is just the means to an end..

The implementation of DNSSEC for the root-zone has been a hot potato for the last two or ten years. It has been predicted to be the deliverance of DNSSEC, the single event that puts all the pieces in place. Will it be? Well, I say we just wait and see.

If you want to know more about the implementation of DNSSEC in the root-zone, head over to Root DNSSEC!

Regards,

LG

New year, Fresh start!

So, we have a new year! This do happen once in while or so but this time it means more then usual. 2009 was a good year with lots of cool projects and quite a few big happenings for me. However, I think that 2010 will be ever more spectacular.

M O R E T O C O M E

Yesterday evening was spent with friends eating a nice dinner, playing some social games and talking about the year that had past. At the strike of twelve the usual pyromaniacs of the group (yes, Im guilty) went out to spend a few minutes burning half a pay check of fireworks into the sky while the rest enjoyed a sparkling wine.

These traditions seems to never change and I have thought about how important they really are. Last year I spent christmas on a sunny island and to be honest it was not the same when I think back. Not bad in any way but it felt like I had missed something. I will most likely travel during christmas on more occasions then one in the future but I think that I need to keep at least one year in between, at home, with the family just to keep the spirit intact.

Happy New Year!

Regards,

LG