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  • I am looking for a domain name registrant. Where can I look it up?

    The Whois is an easy-to-use tool for checking the availability of a .nl domain name. If the domain name is already taken, you can see who has registered it.

    On the page looking up a domain name you will find more information about what a domain name is, how the Whois works and how the privacy of personal data is protected. Alternatively, you can go straight to look for a domain name via the Whois.

  • I would like to transfer my domain name to another registrar. What is the procedure?

    To get your domain name transferred, you need the token (unique ID number) for your domain name. Your existing registrar has the token and is obliged to give it to you within five days, if you ask for it. The procedure for changing your registrar is described on the page transferring your domain name.

  • The details registered about me/my company are incorrect or out of date. How can I get them updated?

    To update the contact details associated with your domain name, you need to contact your registrar. Read more about updating contact details.

  • Why is my domain name in quarantine?

    When a domain name is cancelled, we aren't told the reason, so we can't tell you. You'll need to ask your registrar. The advantage of quarantine is that, if a name's cancelled by mistake, you can always get it back.

    One common reason is that the contract between you and your registrar says you've got to renew the registration every year. If you haven't set up automatic renewal and you don't renew manually, the registration will expire.

  • Ik heb een klacht over mijn provider/registrar. Kan ik daarvoor bij SIDN terecht?

    Wanneer je een klacht hebt over of een geschil met je registrar dan zijn er verschillende mogelijkheden om tot een oplossing te komen. Hierover lees je meer op pagina klacht over registrar. SIDN heeft geen formele klachtenprocedure voor het behandelen van een klacht over jouw registrar.

  • What conditions do I have to meet as a registrar?

    Would you like to be able to register domain names for customers or for your own organisation by dealing directly with SIDN? If so, you can become a .nl registrar. Read more about the conditions and how to apply for registrar status on the page becoming a registrar.

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A new release of SPIN: 1.0!

Try out the new features

The abbreviation IoT (Internet of Things) in a digital environment

We're proud to announce that version 1.0 of our SPIN platform is released today. We've been working hard on a number of usability and security features of the platform itself, so that it can be safely used for your research and IoT device analysis.

What is SPIN?

SPIN is a platform for inspecting the network traffic associated with (IoT) devices on your local network. SPIN is intended to help users and researchers analyse the behaviour of IoT devices and other networking equipment, and to serve as a base platform for the creation of novel technologies for protecting (local) networks from adversaries and device vulnerabilities.

New features

The main new features of release 1.0 are:

  • Bridge mode: We have made it possible to run SPIN on a ‘bridge router’, where the system that runs SPIN is a not a router but a transparent ‘bump in the wire’. This way, you don't need to reconfigure any devices in order to use SPIN.

  • We have added a number of security features to spinweb, SPIN's web interface frontend. It now supports HTTPS, HTTP authentication and MQTT user authentication. These features make it possible to protect the data shown by SPIN from unwanted eavesdropping on your local network.

  • The logging options have been improved; spind can now log to syslog, files, standard out and any combination of those three.

  • PCAP reader: data exchange between SPIN and a PCAP reader is now possible over a network. To reduce traffic between the two instances, information is aggregated before sending it to the SPIN daemon.

  • We have also fixed several bugs and updated the base libraries.

SPIN 1.0

Together with the features added in previous 0.x releases, we now consider the base feature set of SPIN complete, and have therefore decided that it's time for a 1.0 release. You can find the SPIN source code on GitHub.

SPIN 1.0 comes pre-installed on the latest version of our Valibox router software, which can be downloaded from valibox.sidnlabs.nl. A full changelog is also available from GitHub.

Happy spinning! The SPIN team at SIDN Labs

Article by:

Jelte Janssen

Jelte Jansen

Research engineer

Elmer Lastdrager

Elmer Lastdrager

Research engineer

Casper Schutijser

Caspar Schutijser

Research engineer