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Russia’s new country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) and the world’s first Cyrillic domain, .РФ, was registered on May 12, 2010. It is coordinated by the Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ.

Since then, 820,538 new .РФ domain names have been registered, of which 651,161, or nearly 80% of the total, are delegated domains, which is 5% more than last year, when the number of .РФ domain names grew by 3.8%.

Functioning websites are located at 185,056 (22.6%) .РФ domain names and another 112,314 (13.7%) are at the design phase. A total of 16.2% (132,972) are parked domain names, and 11.2% (92,238) are used for redirecting.

Individuals registered 76.4% of .РФ domain names and legal entities 23.6%.

A total of 37.4% of .РФ and 35.7% of .RU domain names were registered three or more years ago.

The average .РФ domain is 11.1 characters, versus 9.6 for .RU.

The CENTR Board of Directors has submitted input to the ICANN consultation on Principles & Mechanisms and the Process to Develop a Proposal to Transition NTIA’s Stewardship of the IANA Functions.

The CENTR Board welcomes the opportunity to contribute on the initial consultation on the IANA transition and believes that the NTIA has been an exemplary guardian of the IANA function service.

Download here: The CENTR Board's comments and input on the Process Proposal identified in the ICANN consultation.

Links:

• NTIA Announcement on the Future of IANA - CENTR Background paper

• CENTR BoD input to the ICANN consulation on the transition of the NTIA stewardship of the IANA Functions.

• Call for Public Input: Draft Proposal, Based on Initial Community Feedback, of the Principles and Mechanisms and the Process to Develop a Proposal to Transition NTIA's Stewardship of the IANA Functions.

Exactly 20 years ago, on 5th of May 1994, national Belarusian top level domain .BY was delegated. Today .BY has 102,000 registered domains and has been growing rapidly often the highest in terms of monthly percentage growth among European ccTLDs. 

Thus, growth of .BY for the quarter (November 2013 – February 2014) is 5.7% - one of the highest among European domain TLDs. 

“Domain .BY has truly come to its 20th anniversary at a peak of its growth, - commented the director of hoster.by Sergey Povalishev. – More than 55% of all second level domains in TLD .BY were registered during the last 2 years. From the beginning of 2014 the quantity of monthly registrations has reached a record figure of 3 500 domains. Moreover, before the end of current year Cyrillic IDN .BEL (.БЕЛ) is planned to be launched will be another impulse for the development of Belarusian Internet segment”.

Another remarkable number is a sum of charitable support, that has been sent to orphanages across Belarus, owing to the auctions of .BY domains. At the end of April it has overcome 175 000 USD.

CNNIC has commented on the ICANN draft of transition NTIA stewardship of IANA functions. CNNIC urges ICANN to consider much more involvement of ccTLD registries in the process. ccTLD has symbolic meaning for every nation, and the ccTLD community should play bigger role.

CNNIC comment to the draft proposal http://cnnic.cn/gjjl/gjjlhd/201405/t20140506_46802.htm

Nominet is announcing the departure of Lesley Cowley OBE as CEO. The Nominet Board acknowledges the contribution Lesley has made to establish Nominet as a widely respected domain name registry over the last 15 years.

Rennie Fritchie DBE, Nominet Chair, said: "Under Lesley’s leadership, Nominet has earned a well-deserved reputation for excellent service, and Lesley has played a leading role within the internet sector and wider IT world. The Board thanks Lesley for her dedication and commitment, and for her achievement in making the UK namespace a trusted online home for the millions who use it.”

Lesley Cowley said: "After 15 years at Nominet, it is now the right time to move on. It has been a privilege to lead Nominet for the past 12 years and I am incredibly proud of our achievements in that time. It is the staff team that make Nominet so special and I would like to especially thank each of them for their amazing efforts over the last decade and a half."

Lesley leaves us on the 9th July. Nominet will now begin a search for a new CEO who will lead the company through its next phase of development.

In the meantime, the Company will be run by a leadership team – the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Technology Officer and the Chief Commercial Officer, working closely with the Nominet Chair.

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

• Article: "NETmundial Produces Outcomes"
• Domain Name Demand and Global Trade
• DNSSEC introduction for domain holders video
• European ccTLD Statistics
• Q&A with Pascal Vella and Cl

After one year of monitoring and optimising business processes, nic.at officially received the ISO 27001 certificate. Auditors of the certification body CIS confirmed the application and further development of an effective Information Security Management System complying with ISO 27001:2013. Also the nic.at subsidiary IPCom and the sister company TLD-Box were certified.

“We at nic.at are constantly aware of our responsibility regarding .at and the other ccTLDs and gTLDs we are operating,” says Christian Proschinger, Chief Information Security Officer at nic.at. “Going through the certification process allowed us to question and thus optimise our information security management system. We are very happy to have taken this step successfully and we will keep improving in the future.” 
 
The main focus of the ISO 27001 standards is to establish, implement, maintain and continually improve an information security management system. It also includes requirements for the assessment and treatment of information security risks tailored to the needs of an organisation.

Article Source: http://www.nic.at/en/uebernic/current_issues/nicat_news/news_view/article//erfolgreiche-iso-zertifizierung/  

NETmundial - Multistakeholder Statement on the Future of Internet Governance

NETmundial, the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance has produced a non-binding, bottom-up output document at the end of the two-day meeting in São Paulo, Brazil (23-24 April).
The São Paulo Statement identifies a set of “Internet Governance Principles” and proposes a “Roadmap to the future evolution of the ecosystem of Internet governance”.

The NETmundial Multistakeholder Statement (.pdf ) can be downloaded from the NETmundial website.

Links
 #NETmundial2014 - IGF: why should it be constrained to 2015? - Regional ccTLD organisations' input during the IG Roadmap debate
NETmundial Background paper - CENTR background paper on NETmundial (published 16 April 2014)

www.netmundial.br - NETMundial website
NETmundial Statement press release  - published 25 April 2014
NETmundial Multistakeholder Statement - .pdf download, 11 pages

NETmundial - Regional ccTLD organisations' input during the IG Roadmap debate