News
.IT publish "Quarter.IT" Magazine
"Quarter.it" is born - the new four-monthly review of the Italian Registry, that will replace the Yearbook, a publication that accompanied us from 2004 and that was published for the last time in order to sum up the data of the last year. The Registry statistics are now updated daily and you can view realtime data on the website www.registro.it. However, the daily work of the Registry, its Registrars and the communication require more details, different points of views and focus on particular aspects, as well as the promptness in the spreading of information. Quarter .it will be full of data, news and events on Italian Internet domains.
See the magazine here
A research project on: Who decides how the Internet is run and how is that control legally exercised?
Norid is working with the University of Oslo on a
research project on governance of the Internet. As part of the project there
will be several seminars leading up to the conclusion in 2014. The project is
pursuing research on governance of the Internet, focusing particularly on the
legal aspects related to governance of the Domain Name System (DNS) and is
funded by the Norwegian Research Council and Norid (the organization
responsible for managing the .no namespace). The project commenced in November
2010 and finishes in November 2014.
The project examines a set of important issues that arise
from recent and ongoing changes to the way in which the DNS of the internet is
governed. The project has two main prongs of research. The first critically examines the ongoing enlargement of the generic Top-Level Domain
namespace and the second assesses the relative utility of respectively (i)
contractual mechanisms and (ii) legislative and treaty-based mechanisms for
global governance structures in Internet governance generally, but with focus
particularly on the management and steering of the DNS. Other issues taken up
under the project include net neutrality, deployment of IP addresses, and
jurisdictional issues related to TLD disputes.
For more information see the IGOV2 Symposium 2013 site
SWITCH reports further increase in Malware
In 2012, more than 2,800 websites with addresses ending in .ch or .li were cleaned of "drive-by" code. SWITCH warns that malware represents the biggest threat to Internet users in 2013. The negative trend is continuing, with 25% more websites infected by malware in the first quarter of 2013.
Read more: http://www.switch.ch/about/news/2013/malware-060613.html
European ccTLD - May 2013
The latest edition of the CENTR Monthly Roundup is available and covers the following
- Overview of ccTLD news from CENTR Members
- CENTR data on Domain Pricing
- Statistics on ccTLD Growth
- Q&A with .ee
- WTPF - "looking back"
Domainwire Stat Report Available
CENTR has published its biannual statistics report on the state of the domain name industry (edition 2013/1). The report gives detail on the following aspects with focus on European ccTLDs.
- Global Domain Name Registrations
- Top 20 ccTLDs and growth
- European ccTLD key statistics and growth
- European domain renewals
- European domain penetration per 100 population
- State of IDN implementation in Europe
See all other editions of DomainWire here
CENTR Report from RIPE66
IEDR reveals winners of €150,000 OPTIMISE Fund
The IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the managed registry for Ireland’s official Internet address .ie, today announced the 20 winners of its OPTIMISE 2013 Fund. The winning companies include family run businesses, emerging and established companies from the food, travel and tourism, media and publishing, retail and technology sectors (see further details).
IEDR’s OPTIMISE e-Commerce Website Development Fund provides €150,000 worth of professional consultancy and support to help 20 Irish SMEs and micro-enterprises upgrade their online presence and grow their business using the Internet as a sales and marketing channel.
DENIC Introduce Redemption-Grace-Period for .de
Upon consultation with the Cooperative members, DENIC eG has decided to introduce a Redemption Grace Period (hereinafter referred to as RGP) for the TLD .de. What does this mean? When a domain contract is terminated, the related .de domain will no longer be deleted IMMEDIATELY; instead there will be a cooldown phase of a defined limited period. During this cooldown phase, the domain holder will be able to reactivate the domain. If DENIC does not receive any reactivation request, the domain will be deleted permanently once the cooldown phase has expired. Other registries already apply similar policies.
This procedure shall protect domain holders against unintentional loss of their domain by accidental deletion and give them the possibility to restore the original registration condition of their domain during the cooldown phase. The launch of the RDG is scheduled for the second half of 2013.
The model described below reflects all the considerations DENIC has made until today as to the actual design of a RGP under .de. The model is to be understood as a general concept defining the essential framework conditions in line with existing processes at DENIC. The final concept of the RGP policy with all its details shall be defined after a four-week discussion and feedback phase, which starts with the publication of this concept on DENIC's public and member mailing lists.
Read further at Source Article
PuntCAT publishes infographic on .cat domains
puntCAT has published an infographic about the health of. Cat domains, seven years after its launch.
To see the infographic click here
Registrar’s Meeting of the .pl Registry
Registrar’s Meeting
of the .pl domain name Registry, organized by NASK, was held on 23 May 2013 in
Warsaw. During the conference, current challenges in the field of market
development, regulations, selected legal issues and the security of the Polish
Registry were discussed. The NASK’s representatives presented the benefits of
the implementation of DNSSEC as well as the results of the survey, carried out
in 2012, which aimed to measure and evaluate the level of services rendered by
NASK and the statistics regarding the .pl domain name utilization.
The representatives
of the Legal Department, CERT Polska and the NASK’s Research Division
added splendour to the event .