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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.  
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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.

CENTR has published its opinion on the Draft Directive concerning measures to ensure a high common level of network and information security across the Union (NIS Directive): http://www.centr.org/CENTR_opinion_on_EU_NIS_directive

The opinion welcomes the focus of the draft Directive on enabling a culture of security and trust but expresses concern that the text moves away from enabling the development of a security framework, in favour of a prescriptive, regulatory environment.

The CENTR Board commented on the EC Consultation on Internet Governance .

The comment endorses ‘cooperation and partnership among all stakeholders’ as a key principle of Internet governance, reiterates the deep involvement of the European ccTLD registries as a stakeholder on the national and international level and emphasizes the necessity of paying attention to the needs of the local Internet community.

You can find the Board comment at http://centr.org/CENTR-Comment-EC_consultation .

The regular pre-report to the upcoming ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires is available covering what to expect at the the ccNSO, GNSO and GAC sessions. 
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To improve the protection of the French Internet against attacks on its DNS infrastructure, Afnic calls for an acceleration in the deployment of DNSSEC

The strategic plan is based on several action levers, the initial initiatives being as follows:

• A Practical Guide to DNSSEC deployment: this implementation and deployment manual provides practical guidance for DNS hosts to configure DNSSEC on their infrastructure;

• Special DNSSEC training, in partnership with HSC for those involved in DNS hosting in France; 

•  A financial incentive scheme. Until 31 December 2013, Afnic is offering its accredited registrars a 10% discount on the price of creation and keep options for DNSSEC signed domain names under the .fr TLD.

CENTR has published its latest ccTLD newsletter with a focus on its recent CENTR Awards 2013 .  The newly refreshed newsletter format also covers among other things;

• "CENTR Awards 2013"
• IGF: The Social Role of a ccTLD Registry
• QnA with AFNIC (.fr) on R&D
• Domain Name Statistics
• Members 185

Effective 25 October 2013, DNSSEC was implemented for .BY (Belarus)
 
DNSSEC will first be assigned to the domains of state organizations such as mil.by and gov.by. Later on, Registrars will be provided with possibility to assign DNSSEC service to any second level domain name in ccTLD .BY