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CENTR will set up a NETmundial hub in Brussels and invites everyone who is interested to follow the debates live form our offices.

Meeting schedule: 
14.00 CET  - 23.00 CET Wednesday 23rd April
14.00 CET - 23.00 CET Thursday 24th April 
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We will provide food and refreshments for registered participants.

Location
Belliardstraat 20 (6th floor)
1040 Brussels, Belgium

The fifth annual conference, DIDS 2014, focusing on the development of the Internet globally and on Serbia’s national domains, was held on 10 March at the Metropol Palace Hotel in Belgrade. Serbian Internet Domain Day gathered together 25 speakers from home and abroad, 35 journalists from 24 media companies and agencies, and over 200 attendees. This year, DIDS took place under the slogan “Domainisation, Socialisation, Good Location”, and was divided into three blocks under these three headings. As previously, the conference was free of charge to all participants who registered via email from an address on a local domain

Open the RNIDS news (PDF)

EURid has been confirmed as the registry manager of the .eu top-level domain for the next five years, with the European Commission Decision (2014/207/EU), published in the Official Journal of the European Union (L109).

"We feel honored to have been chosen again to serve all the .eu registrars and registrants," stated Marc Van Wesemael, CEO of EURid. "The decision comes nine months after we responded to the European Commission call for expression of interest and after ten years of management of this unique top-level domain. At this particular moment, I would like to thank EURid's staff and all those who have supported us throughout the past decade. Together, we have reached significant milestones and made .eu a label of online trust. We will continue to serve all our stakeholders at the highest possible standards and look forward to making the .eu the domain of all Europeans."

For more information on EURid and .eu, please visit the About Us section on this website,http://www.eurid.eu/en/about-us.

The Italian Registry (.it) Registro.it have published their 'Yearbook 2013' covering the events of the Registry over 2013.  Click to open the Yearbook 
 

On March 31st, 2004 the first IDN domain was delegated under .at - today, almost 30.000 Internationalized Domain Names (ie 2,5%) are registered. Most of them contain the German umlauts

The aim of the award is to draw attention to organizations and projects that have contributed significantly to the development of the use of information technology in public administration institutions. Educational activities related to the Internet, support for implementation of the new Internet Protocol IPv6 or activities in the field of open source software are the main reasons why CZ.NIC won this year’s Czech At Prize (Český zavináč). 
More information here 

CENTR has published its full report from the ICANN49 meeting held last week in Singapore.  The report covers the ccNSO, GAC and GNSO sessions. Click below to open the report (PDF)
 

Belarusian domain (.BY) is the most recent addition to the CENTR membership  and showed the highest in Europe growth rates in the previous quarter (5,7%). More than a half of all domains was registered during the last 2 years. In May domain .BY is preparing to celebrate his twentieth anniversary

See more in the DomainWire March edition 

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

• Article: "The IANA function for ccTLDs"
• CENTR Stockholm General Assembly
• European ccTLD Statistics
• Q&A with Michael Hausding (SWITCH-CERT) 
• ccTLD news highlights and statistics

See all previous editions of the CENTRnews

The latest of CENTRs 'DomainWire Stat Report' is available (Edition 7 - March 2014).  The report provides a global status update on top level domains (both gTLDs and ccTLDs) with a focus on European ccTLDs.  

Included in the report:;

• Global Status of Domain Names
• Top 20 ccTLDs list
• European ccTLD overview 
• High growth ccTLDs for the quarter 
• Article and stats on IDNs in Europe