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The FGI France 2026 forum, co-organized by Internet Society France, will gather government, industry and civil society figures at Efrei in Villejuif on 3 November 2026 to discuss digital sovereignty, AI and internet governance ahead of 2027 elections.
Source: isoc.fr original in French published on
ICANN has urged operators of DNSSEC-validating resolvers to confirm that KSK-2024, identified by Key Tag 38696, is present in their trust anchor configuration before the root zone KSK rollover scheduled for 11 October 2026.
Source: icann.org published on
Swiss DNS resolver Quad9 has not blocked any of the 58 domains a Paris court ordered it to restrict for French users, prompting broadcaster beIN Sports to seek penalties of up to €580,000 per day.
Source: torrentfreak.com published on
Senator Thom Tillis and Rep. Zoe Lofgren introduced the DEFEND IP Act, a bicameral bill letting copyright holders obtain court orders to block foreign pirate sites via large ISPs and public DNS resolvers like Cloudflare, while exempting VPN services.
Source: torrentfreak.com published on
A Paris court refused Canal+'s request for up to €50,000 a day in penalties against Cloudflare over piracy blocking of Formula 1 and MotoGP streams, ruling that Cloudflare's CDN-based blocking met its legal obligations even though its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver remained unblocked.
Source: TorrentFreak published on
The DNS root zone's signing key changes on October 11, 2026, switching from KSK-2017 to KSK-2024, CZ.NIC's Ondřej Filip explains, urging DNS resolver operators to verify support beforehand to avoid outages. Cloudflare offers a test tool to check resolvers.
Source: blog.nic.cz original in Czech published on
Several domain industry players have put forward competing proposals to make artificial intelligence agents discoverable and accountable through the Domain Name System, according to domainbrief.de. Verisign and Identity Digital are among the companies involved, alongside former Tucows chief executive Elliot Noss. The proposals reportedly differ in approach but share the goal of giving AI agents a verifiable presence within existing internet addressing infrastructure. The report did not specify timelines or which proposal, if any, is gaining traction among standards bodies.
Source: domainbrief.de original in German published on