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  • CENTR Report on ICANN70

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  • CENTR comment on the Proposal for a Regulation on a Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC

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  • CENTRstats Global TLD Report 2020/4

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  • CENTR Report on IETF109

    This report brings together all the blogposts that were published by CENTR on IETF109.

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News

  • EU Policy Update - April 2021

    2021-05-12 EU Policy Updates

    In a nutshell: The European Commission unveiled its proposal on the Artificial Intelligence Act and the EU Strategy to tackle organised crime until 2025. ENISA published research directions for the EU digital strategic autonomy. The Council of Europe published a new draft text of the 2nd Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention. The negotiators in the European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached a provisional agreement on temporary rules to detect and remove child abuse material. The European Parliament adopted TERREG.

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  • RegeID: help fill in our surveys!

    2021-05-06 News

    As part of a European-funded project it is involved in, CENTR would be very grateful if European registries and registrars could help it in its research and fill in a survey on using eIDAS.

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  • The Camel’s Back: Recursive to Authoritative DNS with Encryption

    2021-04-12 Blog

    With the mushrooming deployment of encrypted DNS transport protocols like DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (DoT), one might be seduced into thinking that in-flight confidentiality of DNS queries is a problem done and dusted. A comprehensive modeling of the security threats, however, reveals otherwise.

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Working groups

ccTLDs and online content

As technical operators in the internet’s infrastructure, what do ccTLD registries actually do? What are their limitations? How can they help in the battle against illegal online content?

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EU Policy at CENTR

CENTR strives to be the voice of the domain name system (DNS) community at EU-level, the centre of intelligence and a reliable partner on all things related to the DNS through several policy objectives.

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