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CENTR has released its full report on the ICANN 51 Meeting held last week in Los Angeles. 

 The report covers in detail the sessions held by the ccNSO, GNSO and GAC.  The IANA stewardship transition and ICANN Accountability were the meta themes which crossed many of the discussions during the week.

Click here to access the report
 

The .DE registry and managing organization, DENIC, has taken another step towards sustainable security: On 10 October 2014, DENIC had its information and security management system (ISMS) certified in accordance with the provisions of the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standard under a full-scope audit by the German certification body TÜV Nord. Covered by the audit were all the tasks, infrastructures and processes that are required to provide DENIC’s services of domain registration, name resolution and lookup services as well as its infrastructure services for operators of other name spaces.

"At DENIC, information security has always been of paramount importance and an integral part of all business processes. The certification according to the internationally recognized ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standard underscores the high-level implementation of our ISMS, which the auditors said to stand out by a large number of ‘good practices’," says DENIC CEO Dr. Jörg Schweiger. "The regular follow-up monitoring audits will assure ourselves, the members of our Cooperative and the Internet community that our business processes and our information security will consistently meet the high requirements of the ISO standard," adds Chief Information Security Officer Boban Krsic, who has established the Information Security Management System at DENIC and brought it to certification readiness, together with his team.

The audit was successfully completed on 10 October 2014. Next to a systematic holistic approach for controlling security-related processes across the organization, TÜV Nord attests DENIC full transparency and traceability of its processes as well as an information security risk management that is in compliance with the requirements of the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standard.

ISNIC has suspended domains that were used for the website of a known terrorist organisation. The majority of ISNIC's board made this decision today, on the grounds of Article 9 of ISNIC's Rules on Domain Registration, which states: "The registrant is responsible for ensuring that the use of the domain is within the limits of Icelandic law as current at any time."

Never before has ISNIC suspended a domain on grounds of a website's content.

 

CENTR has published its regular pre-guide to the ICANN meeting.  The report for ICANN51 (Los Angeles) beginning next week covers topics and what to expect from the meeting particularly related to the ccNSO, GNSO and GAC sessions

Open the report here 
 

A new paper commissioned by CENTR and written by Architelos evaluating the impact of new gTLDs, in particular on the domain name sales channels has been published.  Open the paper below

 

As of December 8, 2014, it will be possible to register a domain number consisting of only one or two character(s) under the .fr TLD.

More information here 

CENTR has published its latest ccTLD newsletter for October 2014 - this edition includes:

• "Bienvenue

Launched on the Internet from 29 September onwards with an offbeat, fun style, the purpose of the campaign is to promote .fr among young people (15-25 age group) and entrepreneurs in start-ups, SOHOs, SMEs, self-employed, craftspeople and shopkeepers, and help their projects take off.

Read further here

As of November 3, it will be possible to register two-character domains at .pt. Terms & Conditions are already available for consultation at www.dns.pt (shortly in English also).