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CENTR Board Statement on the NIS Directive

News 20-02-2015

CENTR Board Statement on the NIS Directive

On 20 February, CENTR's Board of Directors issued a statement regarding the European Commission's Directive on Network and Information Security (NIS). The Board expressed its concerns regarding the scope of the Directive, which currently suggests to explicitly include 'national domain name registries' and 'domain name system service providers', which had previously not been included in the original proposal and the European Parliament's amendments.

View the full statement

News 20-02-2015

DK Hostmaster introduces validation

As from 1 March 2015, DK Hostmaster requires that all Danish registrants can be validated. This means, that your name and address must match the information about you in the CPR or CVR register to get the right of use of a .dk domain name.

Requirement for both existing and new users

DK Hostmaster has already reviewed several thousand .dk registrants from the whois database. Their names and addresses have been checked against the CPR and CVR register, and the registrants that could not be matched will receive a message requiring them to update their contact information.

In future, new Danish registrants who wish to register a .dk domain name will be validated in accordance with either the CPR or the CVR register. If DK Hostmaster is unable to validate them, they will not be able to activate it nor be assigned the right of use to it.

The ground for the validation is a new requirement in the Danish Act on Internet Domains. The Act contains the provision that as from 1 March 2015, DK Hostmaster must ensure accurate registrant information and automatic anonymity for Danish registrants who are anonymous in the CPR register.

Advantage to users

The validation will be an advantages the to users. E.g. because it means that registrants only have to correct their address information with the local authority after which the information is automatically updated in DK Hostmaster's system.

In this way, the risk of missing important information about a domain name is reduced. For example, DK Hostmaster expects a large drop in suspensions of domain names for registrants who have missed their suspension notice because of non-updated contact information.

Moreover, DK Hostmaster can secure anonymity more efficiently. If a validated registrant is anonymous in the CPR register and with his telephone company, he will automatically be anonymised in the whois database.

News 20-02-2015

Serbian Internet Domain Days Conference

RNIDS is pleased to invite you to DIDS 2015, the 6th annual conference on the development of the Internet globally and on the Serbian .RS and .СРБ domains. On 11th March, as part of the conference, the Regional Internet Forum will be held at the Metropol Palace hotel in Belgrade.

The Regional Internet Forum, will bring together representatives of the national registries of Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, as well as representatives of state institutions, local Internet communities and global Internet organisations. The first block, moderated by Vojislav Rodić, will comprise a presentation of regional activities in the Internet arena and a preparatory meeting for the forthcoming EuroDIG conference in Sophia relating to issues in the region of south-eastern Europe. The second block, moderated by Slobodan Marković, will consist of discussion on the application of the multi-stakeholder model in the administration of Internet organisations in the region. The third block, moderated by Dušan Stojičević, will involve a discussion of the use of local writing systems on the Internet and the technical issues faced by Internet registries.

We would also like to invite you to come on 10th March and take part in our all-day Serbian Internet Domain Day, this year titled “Which Internet film are you in?” and divided into three themed blocks. In the first block, titled Masters of the Internet, the topic of discussion will be the forthcoming changes to the global administration of the Internet, with guests from ICANN and European national Internet registries. The second block, titled “Call ‘E’ for Commerce” will be dedicated to e-commerce in all its aspects: legal and financial, promotional, logistical and software-related. The third block is titled “A Promising Domain”, and will feature examples of successful sites and online projects on the national .RS and .СРБ Internet domains.

A detailed programme for the first day of DIDS can be found at http://dids.rs/en/
Attendance at the Conference is free of charge, and a party is planned for 10th March in the evening, which you will also be able to attend with the ID card you will receive as a participant in the Regional Internet Forum.

Accordingly we ask you to supply us with the information we need to produce the ID cards that will be given to everyone at the event.

• Name and surname

• Position

• Organisation

• Email address

Due to the limited number of places we kindly ask that you confirm your attendance by 26th February by replying to this message and indicating whether you would also like to attend the Conference on 10th March.

Attached is the form for room reservation in case you would like to stay at the Metropol Palace hotel.

To see more detail visit the event page

CENTR expresses concerns over the trademark package

News 17-02-2015

CENTR expresses concerns over the trademark package

On 9 February 2015, CENTR, together with a group of stakeholders involved in wider internet issues (CCIA, DNA, EDiMA, EDRi, EuroISPA and ICA), sent a letter to EU decision-makers to express concerns in relation to internet domain names in the current European 'trademark package'.

News 16-02-2015

Q3 2014 report from Registro.it

This edition has topics IDNs, DNS validation, domain cancellations research, IPv4 to 6 transition and details as well as result from the on the ‘Internet Festival 2014’ and other Registry events.

News 16-02-2015

Report on ICANN52 in Singapore

The CENTR report from ICANN52 in Singpoare is available and covers in detail the ccNSO, GNSO and GAC sessions by topic and themes.

Find the report at https://centr.org/CENTR-Report-ICANN52

CENTR supports resolution on Internet Governance

News 12-02-2015

CENTR supports resolution on Internet Governance

CENTR, together with a group of stakeholders involved in wider internet issues (CCIA, EDRi, access and cdt) issued a statement supporting the messages and efforts put forward in a resolution of the European Parliament on internet governance.

The statement can be found here: http://www.ccianet.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/CCIA-Joint-IGF-Statement.pdf

News 06-02-2015

Guide to ICANN52

CENTR has published it's Guide to ICANN52 meeting to be held in Singpoare next week. The report covers what to expect in the ccNSO, GNSO and GAC as well as high level interest topics.

Click to go to report

Afnic & .SE release tool improving Internet resilience

News 04-02-2015

Afnic & .SE release tool improving Internet resilience

Afnic and .SE release Zonemaster, the new DNS checking tool, product of their partnership on improving the security and resilience of the Internet infrastructure.

After a successful one-year partnership between Afnic and .SE, Zonemaster, the new DNS (Domain Name System) checking tool, is released today.

As a successor to the well-known ZoneCheck and DNSCheck tools (respectively by Afnic and .SE), Zonemaster aims to become a world-class reference instrument for DNS checking.

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News 02-02-2015

European ccTLD Brief (Feb 2015)

CENTR has published its latest CENTRnews magazine (12th edition). This month features:

"Why ICANN Accountability Matters"
Infographic on what kept CENTR busy in 2014
QnA with CENTR Communications Manager Alexandrine Gauvin
Recent CENTR workshops and upcoming events
ccTLD news highlights and statistics

See all previous editions of the CENTRnews