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CENTR has published a paper on the topic of Internet Governance.  The paper provides an analytical and historical account of the Internet Governance landscape including many of the contributing elements to the global dialogue, such as;
- WCIT
- WSIS+10
- IGF
- Montevideo statement
- Istar
- Panel on the Future of Global Internet Cooperation
- And others 

The paper also includes a large flowchart of internet governance processes. 

The paper can be found at http://centr.org/CENTR-Paper-IG_landscape_this_year_and_next

 

According to the CENTR stat database, the ccTLD .ir (Iran) has experienced the highest growth among CENTR full members for 2013.  The ccTLD saw a high growth of over 47% over the 12 month period.  Other high growth members for the period include .pt - Portugal (16.4%), .ru Russia (15.5%) and .is Iceland (12.9%). 

 

For more domain name statistics, see the DomainWire Stat Reports 

The Estonian Internet Foundation will lower the price of a .ee domain by 20% from 1 January 2014, i.e. down to €12.

.ee domains can be registered for one, two or three years. The domain fee is €12, €23 or €33 in 2014, depending on the length of the registration period.

These are the domain registration prices that the Estonian Internet Foundation will charge from registrars. The price for the registrant is determined by the registrars. VAT will be added to the fee.

CENTR has published its 6th edition (December 2013) of the DomainWire Stat Report - a quartely report on the state of the domain name industry.  The report gives detail on the following aspects of domain name registrations. 

• Domain Name growth and market share
• Top 20 ccTLDs and growth
• European ccTLD key statistics and growth
• European domain penetration per 100 population
• Article - "Who's using the local ccTLD?" 

The latest issue of Focus.it (December 2013), the newsletter of the .it Registry, was entirely dedicated to the Internet Festival 2013. Famous figures from Italy and abroad presented facts and different perspectives, including some completely new ideas. The list of those involved is vast: from Bruce Sterling to Derrick De Kerkhove, from the Minister of Education, Universities and Research Maria Grazia Carrozza to Domenico Laforenza, the Director of Iit-Cnr. Topics covered range from safety and big data to traditional publishing, from classical and on-line media to Olivetti’s uniquely Italian approach to innovation, from gender-based violence and women’s retaliation via the Web, to parents and children in the Facebook era.
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CENTR has published its latest ccTLD newsletter for December 2013 with articles and stats;

• "The IANA Elephant in the Room"
• Network and Information Security
• Survey Highlights: Registry Lock
• QnA with Don Hollander (APTLD)
• Domain Name Statistics
• Members 185

Residents, companies and organisations based in the European Economic Area (EEA) countries of Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway will also be eligible to register domain names under the .eu top-level domain from 8 January 2014.

This decision by the European Commission follows up on the provision contained in the original .eu regulation (EC 733/2002), which foresaw the extension of .eu to the European Economic Area.

CENTR has published a comprehensive report from the recent 48th ICANN Meeting held in Buenos Aires.  The report covers the ccNSO, the GNSO and GAC sessions as well as detailing special sessoins relating to Internet Governance which was a common theme to the conference.  
Click below to go to the report
 

Nominet announced updates on a range of new initiatives and projects designed to help the company evolve the .uk namespace and improve standards in the face of a rapidly changing internet landscape, as first outlined in June 2013. These are:

1. - The introduction of second level domain names in the .uk namespace – for the first time, shorter, simpler ‘example.uk’ domain names will be available alongside ‘example.co.uk’, ‘example.org.uk’ and so on.
2. - The development of initiatives that will enhance the security of the UK namespace, and contribute to the security of the web as a whole.
3. - A revised draft of the Registrar Agreement, which rewards those meeting highest standards of service, is now published and open for comment.
4. - A proposed Data Quality policy – the company’s first – has been published and is open for comment.