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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
President of Republic of Slovenia decorates ARNES
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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.
Full Report on RIPE 69 meeting (London)
CENTR has published its report on the RIPE 69 meeting held between 3-9 November in London. Key areas of work and discussion were around
- IANA transition
- RIPE views on ITU plenipot
- Funding free software
- DNSSEC issues
European ccTLD - November 2014
CENTR has published its latest ccTLD newsletter for November 2014 - this edition includes:
- "ITU Plenipot 2014: The things that did not happen"
- ccTLDs input to IANA Stewardship Transition Process
- ccTLD country market shares
- QnA with Giovanni Seppia (EURid) and CENTR Board Member
- Recent CENTR workshops and upcoming events
- ccTLD news highlights and statistics
New legal basis for .ch Internet addresses
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Warsaw hosts "Who rules the Internet” international workshop
- Management of technical network resources (Internet domains, IP addresses, communication protocols), rules of activity and tasks realized by ICANN, the role of the U.S. government in managing the Internet and the process of handing over the supervision of the domain name system to the global Internet community
- Cyber security with regard to the DNSSEC service
- Access to information vs. the protection of privacy in the Internet – conflict of two values
- Network neutrality – how future legal regulations on network neutrality will affect the chain of values in the Internet and the relationship among the providers of telecommunication services, content and electronic services providers as well as the Internet users
- Management of technical network resources vs. running a business activity – the issue of domains in a particular view of new generic domain names programme (new gTLD)
- “Everything you always wanted to know about the Internet but were afraid to ask”
- How the Internet works as viewed from the technical and business perspective
IEDR Deploy DNSSEC for .ie
IEDR have announced the deployment of DNS security extensions (DNSSEC) for the .ie ccTLD. This protocol will enable service providers to offer additional security for DNS transactions for .ie domain holders, their customers and the internet at large. DNSSEC provides data origin authentication and data integrity verification to the global domain name system through the use of public key cryptographic signatures. It prevents many potential attack vectors via the unsecured DNS.
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