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FCCN announces the liberalization of .pt domain registration
Liberalization will allow users to more easily register a .pt domain, without having to be associated with a brand or company
Lisbon, February 23 th, 2012 – The Foundation for National Scientific Computing announced, at a press conference, the liberalization of .pt domain registration, from May 1, 2012. At the conference, there were also made public the new rules for registering .pt domain names.
According to Pedro Veiga, president of the Foundation, “This is a goal for which the Foundation has been working long and we finally have the approval of the proposed liberalization from the General Council. We hope that this liberalization will result in an increase in the number of people who choose to have a .pt address instead of registering foreign and generic top domains.”
From May 1st, anyone can register an address without having to own a brand or company, and the register of the address can then be done by anyone, similar to what happens internationally.
For the . pt registration, the domain only have to be delegated in the .pt area. and be technically associated with a primary name server, correctly installed and configured.
Additionally, the General Council of the Foundation also decided to create a "Sunrise" period, from March 1st and in force for 60 days, in order to allow public companies, companies, brand names, establishment, logos, copyright and professional names, literary or artistic to register their .pt domain, defending their established rights.
The press conference was also attended by Bruno Carlos, President of APREGI’s General Assembly, which provided its opinion and viewpoint on this liberalization.


SWITCH considers taking Administrative Court judgement further
In the case of switchplus, the Swiss Federal Administrative Court rejected SWITCH's complaint on 13 February 2012. The Foundation regrets the negative judgement, which restricts its economic freedom and is examining all the possible options.
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SWITCH considers taking Swiss Federal Administrative Court judgement further
In the case of switchplus, the Swiss Federal Administrative Court rejected SWITCH's complaint on 13 February 2012. The Foundation regrets the negative judgement, which restricts its economic freedom and is examining all the possible options.
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SWITCH considers taking the Swiss Federal Administrative Court's judgement further
In the case of switchplus, the Swiss Federal Administrative Court rejected SWITCH's complaint on 13 February 2012. The Foundation regrets the negative judgement, which restricts its economic freedom and is examining all the possible options.
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The Internet at a crossroads: When will politics arrive in reality?
Conference day two of Domain pulse 2012 in Hamburg: Why does the planned international copyright convention ACTA cause a stir in the Internet community? Do we really have to fear that net communication will be increasingly controlled? Exciting topics on the second day of the specialist conference Domain pulse in 2012.
For further details please refer to the DENIC press release.


CENTR elects new Chair and Board Members
At the recent Annual General Assembly held in Salzburg, CENTR elected 3 new Board members to replace outgoing members Annebeth B. Lange, Mathieu Weill and Juhani Juselius.
The 3 newly elected Board Members are; Lise Fuhr (.dk), Giovanni Seppia (.eu) and Richard Wein (.at).
In Salzburg the term of Mathieu Weill as Chair came to and end and Peter Vergote (.be) was elected as new Chairman of the Board. Richard Wein (.at) was appointed as Treasurer.
CENTR extends a sincere thank-you to the outgoing Board
Members for their dedication, time and efforts. CENTR further congratulates the
newly elected Board members and wishes them all great success in their new
positions.
More on the Board of Directors here


Estonian Registry accepted as Full Member in CENTR
At the recent CENTR Annual General Assembly held in Salzburg, the Estonian Registry (.ee), Estonian Internet Foundation, was unanimously accepted as the 51st CENTR Full Member.
“CENTR provides Estonia with an opportunity to participate in the development of the Internet on the international level,” said Marek-Andres Kauts, Chairman of the Board of the Estonian Internet Foundation.
CENTR congratulates and welcomes the new member and looks forward to their contributions and co-operation.
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Authorities shut down main Ukrainian file-sharing webservice EX.ua
EX.ua was one of the most popular websites in Ukraine.
Prosecutors ordered the domain registrar to close access to ex.ua, while police confiscated 200 servers that belong to the company that provides file-sharing service. The Interior Ministry said the site had been under criminal investigation for copyright violation since July.
That caused big cyber attack. Since Feb. 1 official websites started going down:
the official websites of President Viktor Yanukovych, the Security Service of Ukraine, the National Bank of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers and the ruling Party of Regions.
Although file-sharing service still doesn't work, Feb 2 the investigation sorted out that placement on the portal of unlicensed products may not be the reason for blocking the domain name. Law enforcers asked the domain registrar to unblock the domain name ex.ua and renew access to the website.
More information is at http://www.kyivpost.com/news/business/bus_general/detail/121754/


Link as you speak! Cyrillic domain .СРБ opens for registrations
As of 27 January website owners in Serbia and the Diaspora can register the Cyrillic domain .СРБ as well. During the first six months, only the owners of existing or newly registered .RS domain names will be eligible to register .СРБ domain names at a special price. After this period, anyone will be able to register Cyrillic domain names, regardless of whether they have a specific .RS domain name or not.
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Healthcheck 2011 Reports from .SE available
Two new reports have been published from .SE available (in English); one on reachability online and .se’s health status, and the other one about network neutrality.
Report: Healthcheck 2011 - Reachability