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Afnic consolidates its consultancy and expertise offering
Afnic will be expanding its technical consultancy and expertise offering to include support for the implementation and deployment of new registries and technical expertise in DNS and secure management of domain name portfolios.
Consultancy
In the first category of services, Afnic teams can support a business, brand or local authority wishing to create their own Internet TLD, throughout all the phases of the implementation of a new registry, from upstream discussions to maintaining the registry after it has been launched. The support can cover either one of those aspects or the project as a whole.
Expertise
The second category of services is backed by the widely recognized technical knowledge of Afnic engineers. It is designed for registries, ISPs and businesses alike, and helps them implement or improve an operational infrastructure and deploy DNS, DNSSEC (secure DNS) and IPv6 protocols.
CWG on Naming Related Functions Draft Transition Proposal
The Cross Community Working Group (CWG), tasked with developing a
consolidated transition proposal for the TLD related elements of the IANA
Functions, has now published its draft transition proposal for public comment:
https://www.icann.org/public-comments/cwg-naming-transition-2014-12-01-en.
The full proposal is available here:
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/cwg-naming-transition-01dec14-en.pdf
Background on where this fits in, please check
the CENTR visual update:
https://centr.org/CENTR-Update_on_IANA_Stewardship_Transition
Comments can be submitted until 22 December at 23:59 UTC.
In order to brief the community on the contents on this draft transition
proposal and encourage community feedback, the CWG will be organising three
identical webinars at different times to facilitate participation across time
zones. The webinars will take place on:
* 3 December from 7:00 8:30 UTC
* 4 December from 12:30 14:00 UTC
* 4 December from 16:00 17:30 UTC
For more information, see
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-12-01-en
Visual updates on the IANA stewardship transition process
CENTR has produced a document outlining the workflow and status of the IANA stewardship transition process as it relates to the DNS community.
The document can be found here
DNS.PT to provide tech & legal support to .gw (Guinea Bissau)
The National Regulatory
Authority - Information and Communication Technologies of Guinea-Bissau is now
the new registry for the domain .GW. DNS.PT was invited to provide all the
technical and legal support during the launch and the beginning of the
operations of this African ccTLD.
Analysis of the domain market in Serbia
In September, research was conducted into the Internet presence of 150 Serbian companies with the largest net profit in 2013. The results of the research show that 121 companies (80.6%) have a registered .RS domain name. Of this number, 99 firms have their own website on a .RS domain, 16 domains redirect, mainly to the related .COM domains, and 6 domain names are parked.
Other articles from RNIDS can be found in their latest newsletter here and include:
- Introduction of business standards
- An independent audit
- Domain disputes update
- Domain statistics
- Security and stability of RNIDS services
.pl reaches 2.5 million domains
Nearly one million Registrants and over 2.5 million active names - this is the result the .pl domain registry attained in the third quarter of 2014.
As it results from the report of the NASK scientific institute, which runs the registry, by the end of the first half of the year the volume of the Polish registry increased by more than 26 thousand new names, therefore its growth dynamics amounted to 2.48 percent on a year to year basis.
At the end of the third quarter of 2014 more than 942 thousand Registrants were registered in the .pl domain Registry. As it results from the data presented in the report, almost 67% of Registrants held one domain name in the Registry and over 14% subscribed two names. On the other hand, near 1 100 clients were the Registrants of more than one hundred names, with 61 of them being the Registrants of more than one thousand names.
A detailed NASK report for the third quarter of 2014 is available do be downloaded from http://www.dns.pl/english/registrar/NASK_Q3_2014_REPORT_EN.pdf
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SIDN updates privacy framework for ‘DNS big data’
SIDN has published an updated version of the privacy framework for DNS big data applications in both Dutch and English
The first version appeared at the end of September and was subsequently presented at the quarterly PI.lab [http://www.pilab.nl/] discussions on 3 October, for example. The original text has now been updated to cover the concept of ‘application silos’ and to clarify the distinction between R&D and production. The paper will also be presented at the ECP Annual Congress on 20 November, as part of the session on privacy, innovation and security in the balance [http://www.jaarcongresecp.nl/programma/privacy-innovatie-en-veiligheid-in-balans].
Finland: Domain name act to be amended
On 6 November 2014, the Finnish Parliament approved the legislative proposal known as the Information Society Code (previously the Code for Information Society and Communications Services). The proposal includes significant changes to fi-domain name activities. The key purpose of the new legislation is to clarify the roles of FICORA and registrars by ensuring that, in the future, customers can acquire all services from one and the same place - from their own registrar. At the same time, Finland's domain name activities will switch to the coherent and widely-used international registry-registrar model. As regards the sections concerning domain names, the Information Society Code enters into force on 5 September 2016.
The most significant change in fi-domain name activities is the introduction of the registry-registrar model. The purpose of the model is to separate the granting of fi-domain names, for which FICORA is responsible, as well as the maintenance of the domain name register and the root name server from the retail of domain names, which belongs to the responsibilities of registrars. The new operations model enables that the acquisition and maintenance of domain names can be clarified for customers by switching from the current mixed model to the so-called one-stop shop principle. The change in the operations model concerns only a small part of the current fi-domain name holders because over 80% of the current fi-domain names already have a registrar.