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CENTR Guide for ICANN44
We have
published a short guide for those attending next week’s ICANN meeting.
It
identifies the key issues and gives some recommendations on which sessions
might be the more interesting.
This
document is aimed at people who are less familiar with ICANN.


The Internet Days October 22-24
On October 22-24, .SE will host the 13th annual Internet Days conference – Sweden’s most important meeting place concerning the Internet. This year’s keynote speakers include Karin Ahl, Chair of FTTH Council Europe, Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Harvard University, and security expert Mikko Hyppönen.
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ccTLDs and Facebook
In a recent CENTR survey, it was found that 19 out of the 28 ccTLD Registries (68%) surveyed use a Facebook Page. Below are some basic stats and links to the Facebook Pages.
The survey (available to CENTR Members) different aspects of the Facebook Pages such as the intended audience, maintainence of the page and value to the Registry.
Registry Facebook Pages


Domreg.lt celebrates 20th anniversary of .LT
Kaunas University of Technology dba Domreg.lt
celebrates 20th anniversary of .LT domain, having more that 146000 registered
.LT domains
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CENTR Concludes successful Workshop Jamboree in Frankfurt
Last week, CENTR (The Council of European National Top level Domain Registries) held in Frankfurt am Main, a new experimental concept called the CENTR Jamboree which brought together in one week all the traditional CENTR Workshops - which are normally all held separately.


New partnership between CIRA and Swedish company OpenDNSSEC
New partnership between the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (.CA Registry) and Swedish company OpenDNSSEC AB (svb)
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) and the Swedish company OpenDNSSEC AB (svb) are pleased to announce they are partnering on an initiative to make the Internet more safe and secure.
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Trends in internet use and the Dutch domain name market: research report published by SIDN
SIDN has published the findings of a unique study into trends in internet use and the Dutch domain name market. Although the influence of social media has been studied before, this is the first time that researchers have looked at it in direct relation to the domain name market.
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DENIC 2011 Domain Statistics - From Zwickau to Zweibr
DENIC, the registry
for .de domains, annually presents the results of regional domain statistics.
In 2011, about 13.8 million domains were recorded in 402 cities and districts,
across Germany. Adding to these are more than 870,000 domains with holders
residing outside Germany, which account for about 5.9 percent of the total .de
domain inventory. All in all, 14,740,474 domains were registered with DENIC, on
31 December 2011.
In 2010/2011, the
federal average increase rate of domains was 7.6 percent compared to 6.4
percent in 2009/2010. This corresponds to an increase of about 979,000 domains
(compared to 775,000 in the preceding year).
Statistically, about
every sixth inhabitant of the Federal Republic of Germany has registered a .de
domain (16.9 percent compared to 15.7 in the preceding year). As a result,
Germany ranks fourth in Europe after the Netherlands, Denmark and Switzerland.
Popularity of .de
domains outside of Germany remains high. At the end of 2011, more than 870,000
domain holders – thus accounting for about 5.9 percent – resided outside of
Germany. Scoring second last year, Great Britain (98,500) now has taken the
rank of Switzerland (95,978), which was last year's leader among the countries
of origin of the domain holders. Rank three is still held by the United States
of America (77.840), followed by last year's number six, the Netherlands
(76,770).
All figures are based
on an analysis of the domain database of the German registry DENIC as of 31
December 2011. They continue the regional domain statistics, which have been
compiled by DENIC each year since 1995.
The overall 2011
results in the form of an Excel spreadsheet are accessible for download via the
statistics section of the DENIC website, at http://www.denic.de/en/background/statistics/regional-distribution/2011.html. They include information on all administrative
districts and incorporated cities within Germany. In addition to absolute
values, the statistics also provide data on the number of domains related to
the number of inhabitants as well as maps and diagrams showing the absolute and
the relative distribution of .de domains among German domain holders and those
from abroad.


Workshop on DNSSEC implementation held
Register of National Internet Domain
Names of Serbia (RNIDS) organised the DNSSEC implementation
workshop on 16 and 17 May at hotel ‘Moskva’ in Belgrade with Patrik
Wallström and Rickard Bellgrim from the Swedish national registry as
lecturers.
The workshop gathered about thirty participants who dealt with installing and
maintaining DNS servers. DNS is considered to be one of the pillars the Internet is build on and thus
the security and accuracy of data provided by DNS is critical for the survival
of the Internet as an ordered space.
DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) is a set of extensions for DNS servers
increasing the security of DNS service users by cryptographically
signing DNS responses using the public key so that their authenticity can be
checked. Signing entire zones on DNS servers enables the confidence first among
various DNS servers
that exchange information and then with the end user who gets the accurate and
unchanged information about the location of a particular server.
Malicious activities of modifying the content of a DNS cache, which are well
known, imply entering false, altered IP addresses of particular servers into
the cache. If the user searches for www.some-bank.rs, instead of the correct IP address he will get the one that
the attacker has entered into the DNS cache and thus directed the user to a
wrong website where he could be required to provide his confidential
information. DNSSEC prevents precisely such problems.
RNIDS plans to introduce DNSSEC for the local .RS and .СРБ Internet domain
space and in doing so join the European registries which have already enabled
it to their users.