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Hostmaster Ltd has enhanced name protection in the .UA top-level domain by updating the DNSSEC key. To generate a new key, the company used the elliptic curve algorithm (ECDSA-P256-SHA256), which is more cryptographically robust. In addition, the use of the new algorithm allows to reduce the load on the domain system servers.

The CENTRstats platform has added a new dashboard which combines and replaces several older pages on market share. This new page provides a comprehensive report of most CENTR member countries based on several indicators, most of which include comparisons to the CENTR member average as well as trend charts:

We would like to inform you that due to a server upgrade, the CENTR website will temporarily be unavailable on Tuesday 26th November between 18:00-20:00 CET.

CENTR has just published its Report on RIPE79, which took place in Rotterdam from 14-18 October 2019.

You may have noticed that the CENTR website was down between Friday 1st November and Wednesday 6 November.

CENTR has published its Report on ICANN66! As well as covering issues discussed at the ccNSO and GAC meetings, this report also provides updates on DNS Abuse discussions, IoT, ccTLD news sessions, WHOIS and Data Protection, the DotAmazon case and much more.

In a nutshell: The European Parliament is still working on its position on the e-Evidence package, while the upcoming Commissioner for Justice promises to prioritise EU internal discussions over the Transatlantic deal on the same matter. Europol issued its annual Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment report. The European Commission found inconsistencies with identifying the “operators of essential services” under the NIS Directive, including the diverging methodology within the TLD sector. The European Parliament adopted a resolution on electoral interference and disinformation. Member States submitted their comments on the challenges with the GDPR implementation. The European Data Protection Board issued guidelines on Article 6 of the GDPR in the context of online services. The European Court of Justice issued its rulings in the case of Google and its obligation to respect the ‘right to be forgotten’, and in the case of Facebook which can be ordered to monitor and remove identical and ‘equivalent’ illegal content worldwide in order to comply with the national court order.

CENTR just published its Guide to ICANN66, which will take place in Montréal from 2-7 November 2019. It covers key topics of interest in the ccNSO and GAC sessions.