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Registration open for Russian Internet Governance Forum
For the sixth time Coordination Center for the TLD RU/РФ is
organizing Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF-2015) that will take place
on April 7, 2015 in Lotte Hotel in Moscow. The Forum is supported by ICANN,
Technical Center of Internet, Kaspersky Lab and Russian Association for
Electronic Communications.
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Registration for Russian Internet Governance Forum open
For the sixth time Coordination Center for the TLD RU/РФ is
organizing Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF-2015) that will take place
on April 7, 2015 in Lotte Hotel in Moscow. The Forum is supported by ICANN,
Technical Center of Internet, Kaspersky Lab and Russian Association for
Electronic Communications.
Further information
DomainWire Global TLD Report (December 2014) Available
| The latest of CENTRs 'DomainWire Stat Report' is available (Edition 10 - December 2014). The report provides a global status update on top level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs) with a focus on European ccTLDs. | |
Included in report:
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Suspension of direct sale of .ch domain names
The SWITCH Foundation stopped selling .ch domain names on
1st January 2015 and is successively handing over client support to its
business partners, the registrars. The basis for this change is the new
Ordinance on Internet Domains (OID). Read further
CENTR Board Statement on Draft IANA Transition Proposal
The CENTR Board of Directors has submitted a statement in response to the public consultation on the Draft Transiton Proposal by the Cros Community Working Group on Naming Related Functions.
The statement can be found at http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-cwg-naming-transition-01dec14/msg00023.html
Multiple vulnerabilities in several DNS products
Source Article: AFNIC
It only affects DNS resolvers (and in certain circumstances, BIND software, even when it is on an authoritative server). It is present in several software systems, at least BIND (CVE-2014-8500), PowerDNS (CVE-2014-8601) and Unbound (CVE-2014-8602).
It does not seem to be present in the Microsoft Windows DNS resolver.
Read further in source article below
Latest .at-report 'Year in Review' available
The last .at-report for this year is now available which looks back over the year. On the last page you will find the Highlights of the year: The Domain pulse in February in Salzburg, the successful ISO-27001 certification and a lot of conferences and events. NIC.at also welcomed three new employees at our office in Salzburg!
One central project of the past year was the "Austria loves .at"-campaign, with which created offline and online buzz throughout the year. Page two and three will give you an overview of the campaign. If you'd like to get more into detail, feel free to visit www.austrialoves.at (German only)
You can find the full 3/2014 .at-report here .
.is reduces registration price
The ccTLD for Iceland (.is) have reduced their price for domain name registrations to 29.90 EUR per year.
Norwegian domain names secured with DNSSEC
From 9 December Norwegian domain names can be secured with DNSSEC. This means that an end user can know for sure that he arrives at the correct web page when he looks up a domain name.
DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions) is a security extension to the domain name system (DNS). DNSSEC protected domains are cryptographically signed, and this makes it possible to check that the reply to a domain lookup comes from the correct source of origin, and that the lookup remains unchanged. The purpose is among other things to prevent a scammer to falsify an answer in order to send an end user to a fake web page.
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CENTR full report on IETF91 meeting
CENTR has published its full report on the recent IETF91 meeting held in Honolulu. The report covers key themes around:
- IANA transition
- Proposals on the IANA Protocol parameters registries
- DNS privacy solutions - solutions shaped by different interests
- Third-Party Management of DS keys
- China's answer to NetMundial
- and more including IETF working group updates
FIND THE REPORT HERE