Project nearing completion… welcome CredRock!
The project that I’ve been working on, on-and-off for the last couple years is nearing completion. It’s a full stack software suite for ICANN Accredited Registrars. It’s modern, flexible, and has a RESTful API allowing all kinds of app integration for a Registrar.
The software design process on this has been a real treat. It’s quite a complex undertaking, including software that communicates with all the various TLD registries, deals with a ton of ICANN requirements, and still manages to focus on a clean user experience and a robust and simple to maintain software stack. Every level of the software is backed up by a full test suite, which should give us the flexibility to roll out support for the upcoming gTLDs quicker than the competition. (and with fewer bugs!)
We’ve just launched our announcement page at www.credrock.com. If you’d like to know more and stay up to date as we approach launch, please register on the site. And if you know anyone looking for new software for their Registrar, or just starting their own, send them our way.
Google may pull out of China
Here’s an interesting post by Google on their problems in China, alluding to the possibility that they might close down Google.cn
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
Personally I’m not surprised. I’ve been firewalling all the servers I administer from all netblocks in China for a while now. If you’re not doing business in China, my advice is to do the same. Along with blocking netblocks in Eastern Europe, you’ll see a huge decrease in the number of malicious scripts and automated exploit attempts against your server, which has the nice side effect of lowering you bandwith and slimming down your log files. Here’s a convenient list of Chinese netblocks in CIDR format which you can add to your iptables.
http://www.okean.com/chinacidr.txt
It feels to me like were are on the cusp of some serious global cyberwars. If we want to maintain an open and safe Internet, it’s going to fall on us, as responsible developers and IT people, to talk openly about what we are seeing and dealing with.
So hats off to Google for being frank and open about their security compromises.
