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Estonian Internet Foundation announces tender for DNSSEC hardware
The Estonian Internet Foundation has announced a public tender for acquiring the hardware required for a more secure operation of DNSSEC.
The Foundation has started a process of deploying the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and is organising a tender for acquiring the Hardware Security Modules.
The reference number for the public tender "Hardware Security Module (HSM) seadmete omandamine - Acquisition of Hardware Security Modules (HSM)” in the Procurement Register is 145918. The deadline for submitting tenders is 11 a.m. on 2nd of October, 2013. A tender notice has been published in the EU tenders’ database athttp://ted.europa.eu/ with the reference number 2013300743.
DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) is a security key system ensuring that the user will be directed to the correct webpage after entering a URL into a browser. For example, DNSSEC will guarantee that after entering the URL of an Internet banking environment, a user will not be directed to a webpage with a similar look and feel that has been set up by organisers of fraud intent on stealing data and passwords.
PIR Releases Bi-Annual Domain Name Report
PIR, the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain – today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report, “The Dashboard,” detailing the international and domestic growth of .ORG from January to July 2013. Specifically, the report revealed that new .ORG registrations increased by 13.6 percent in the first half of 2013. Other findings from “The Dashboard” include:
CZ.NIC Academy To Offer an Accredited Data Box Course
The training centre of the administrator of the Czech national domain, the CZ.NIC Academy, has been accredited as a training institution by the Czech Ministry of the Interior. As a result, the Academy is now accredited to offer to a new data box course, the guarantor of which is if the respected data box expert and university educator Jiří Peterka. The first data box course will be offered at the CZ.NIC Academy in September. Those interested in this and other courses taught at the CZ.NIC training centre can register at www.nic.cz/akademie. The basic price of the two-day data box training session is CZK 3,300.
The new course will provide detailed information on data boxes, including all aspects of their operation and their legal framework. For example, participants will learn about the responsibilities connected with data boxes, delivery periods, what to do in the case that a message for which they are not the intended recipient is received and how to handle data reports in the long-term horizon. The course will also cover the issue of electronic signatures. Although no special knowledge is required to attend the course, some prior contact with data boxes is beneficial.
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CIRA prepares for Canadian Internet Forum
CIRA is accepting registrations for what promises to be another provocative and informative exploration of the global Internet and the challenges and opportunities it presents for all Canadians. The CIF is CIRA’s ongoing consultation with the Canadian public that provides all citizens with a voice to discuss whatever aspects of the Internet matter most to them. Read further
CZ.NIC Statistics including mojeID Data
Statistics from the CZ.NIC have produced data connected with the status of the .CZ domain, DNSSEC, IPv6 and hosting. CZ.NIC has now expanded these data to include data gathered from the operation of the mojeID service. More information is available on the statistics websites.
IETF87 Meeting Report available
CENTR has published its report from the IETF87 recently held in Berlin.
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SWITCH Junior Web Award 2014
The website competition for schools, now in its eighth year has begun. SWITCH is looking for classes from all over Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein that want to explore the possibilities of the World Wide Web and design a website of their own together with their teacher.
The success story of the Junior Web Award began in 2007, when SWITCH launched the competition to mark its 20th anniversary with the aim of promoting Internet and media skills among the younger generation. Since then, more than 2,000 classes have entered.
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European ccTLD - July 2013
The latest edition of the CENTR Monthly Roundup is available and covers the following
- Overview of ccTLD news from CENTR Members
- CENTR stats "Registration and penetration correlations"
- Statistics on ccTLD Growth
- Q&A with .be (Belgium) on new gTLDs
- ICANN47 Update and highlights
IETF Meeting in Berlin
More than 1,500 technical experts are coming together in Berlin from 28 July until 2 August at the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) Meeting to jointly work at the further evolution of the Internet and to develop tomorrow's protocol standards. As the global Internet’s premier technical standards body, the IETF is open to any interested person, and the results of its work are based on competence and the best technical arguments. In 106 working groups experts from 74 countries develop concepts to enhance security, speed and user-friendliness on the Internet – be it to secure routes, to provide extensions for mobile applications or to protect data in the cloud.
Based on open and freely available standards, DNS enables the resolution of domain names and their translation into IP addresses, and thus easy use of the Internet. Additional security is provided by security extensions like DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions), which was developed in the IETF and has been implemented as a standard by more than 100 country codes, including .de.
As the meeting in Berlin too will have an impact on the way we will use the Internet in the future.