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CENTR Launches Nominations for 2013 CENTR Award
Triggered by a presentation made in CENTR's General Assembly held in Lisbon in early 2013, CENTR have launched nominations for the 2013 CENTR Awards. Nomination is open to all Full and Associate Members under the following categories;
CENTR Members can nominate using the online form
Briefing for ICANN47 Meeting in Durban Available
CENTR have published our Briefing to the ICANN47 meeting to be held in Durban in the coming days.
The report gives highlights and suggested sessions in the categories of ccNSO, gNSO and GAC.
Click to go to the report
European ccTLD - June 2013
The latest edition of the CENTR Monthly Roundup is available and covers the following
- Overview of ccTLD news from CENTR Members
- Survey highlights "Registry Marketing Plans and Campaigns"
- Statistics on ccTLD Growth
- Q&A with .pl
- euroDIG - "Internet for Society"
.it - Italian Registry introduce 'drop-time'
As of 24 June, users can find out the date and time of deletion of any domain name: that’s drop-time, the new procedure that gives access to domain name lists awaiting deletion directly on our site. At one o’clock every night we publish the lists of domain names with pendingDelete/pendingDelete status awaiting deletion the next day.
With drop-time it’s even easier to find the domain name you’re looking for. Register your .it domain name too!
More details at http://www.nic.it/droptime
25 years .PT event at EuroDIG Lisbon 2013
The first event to celebrate the 25 years .PT was held recently, at the EuroDIG Lisbon 2013, which was also attended by FCT, DECO, the ACEPI and AMEN.
The initiative took place in parallel with the EuroDIG Lisbon and aimed to mark the commemoration of the 25 years of the DNS.PT, and counted, in special, with an opening session made by the President and CEO of ICANN, Fadi Chehade, who congratulated the DNS. PT for its anniversary and expressed the importance of the multistakeholder model of the DNS.PT Association, to whom he wished the greatest success.
DENIC supports largest international survey of domain industry
According to the study, more than 80 percent of the participating German registrars do not expect the
Accordingly, three thirds of the interviewed German registrars assume the share of new TLDs in the
The data on which the study is based were compiled from the start of November 2012 until the end of
ICANN Signs Exchange of Letters with .ME (Montenegro)
ICANN announced that it has signed an Accountability Framework with the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) manager for .ME (Montenegro), the Ministry for Information Society and Telecommunications of Montenegro, on 13 May 2013.
See ICANN Announcement
Serbian Registry for .RS publish Annual Report (2012)
"RNIDS – Annual Report for 2012" is a 24-page publication which includes a review of everything that is related to the work of the Serbian registry of Internet domain names. The contents of the publication include texts on national Internet domain names, accredited registrars, bodies of RNIDS and activities of all the sectors of the RNIDS Office.
Particular attention was paid to statistics on registration of .RS and .СРБ national domain names, comparison with national registers in the region, and to statistics on media coverage that accompanied the activities of RNIDS.
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RNIDS - Annual Report for 2012 (PDF, 3.31 MB)
French Council of State rules on former legal framework for domain names
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