Stéphane Bortzmeyer

Poste
R&D expert engineer, Afnic
Biographie
Stéphane Bortzmeyer worked as a system and/or network engineer in several organisations (engineering school, research institute, Internet operator) before joining Afnic. He works on technical standardisation, training, DNS expertise and a number of other topics. Stéphane is the author of the book “Cyberstructure / L'Internet, un espace politique” (“Cyberstructure / The Internet is a political space”) published by C&F Éditions and of three RFCs (“Requests For Comments”, Internet technical standards).
Articles

NFTs and domain names, friends and partners?
NFTs are much in fashion. In the context of domains, they have even been cited in an ICANN conflict....

New DNS record types to give more information for client applications
We often read that the DNS “translates domain names into IP addresses”...

The QUIC transport protocol has now been standardised
On 27 May 2021 the technical standards of the QUIC transport ...

What happens when you register a domain name?
The purpose of this article is to set out the various stages of a domain registration....

About the attack on French ISPs’ DNS resolvers
On 1 and 2 September 2020, several French ISPs (Internet Service Providers), including SFR and Bouyg...

Hosting a domain name with compound characters
In a previous article, we saw that it is perfectly possible to use compound characters in a domain...

Can compound characters be used in a domain name?
In the Charlie Hebdo edition No. 1446 of 8 April 2020, the article by Laure Daussy on the increase i...

Functioning of Afnic during lockdown
What will become of Afnic during lockdown? Will all the operational services be running?...

Which Top Level Domains have an IP address?
Does the hyperlink http://dk/ work? Yes. How? Because .dk (Denmark) is one of the rare Top Level Dom...

A brief example of using Afnic Open Data
Which domain names are derived from a first name?

30 years of success and danger: the Web, URLs and the future
This month (the exact date is apparently not known), we are celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of...

What are the possible actions against domain name abuses?
Last week we detailed the various things that are grouped under the name of "fraudulent or abusive u...

Cybersquatting, Spam, Phishing… the different types of domain name abuses
The term "abusive use" is difficult to define. For example, the owner of a trademark will tend to ca...

Domain name security, the example of cryptocurrencies
A study of three hijackings of domain names in the last six months, in the world of cryptocurrencies...