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CNNIC appoints Executive Director
Moreover, Mr. Xiaodong Li organized and accomplished several international and domestic technology standards in the fields of domain name and email, the application and delegation of“.中国”, as well as the research and development of the first series of software and hardware system of domain name service in China.


NIC.at publish first ".at report" for 2013
NIC.at have published their ".at Report" looking at latest statistics on ownership and use of .at domains, environmental factors that influence the registration statistics as well as internet and broadband developments in Austria.
"the better the underlying technologies, the more domains are registered"
Click to access report


Summary of the ICANN / Afnic meeting
For his first visit to France and Paris as the CEO of ICANN, Fadi Chehad


CENTR Posts Comment on Consultation on ccTLD Delegation and Redelegation Performance Standards
CENTR has posted their Comment on the Consultation paper from ICANN on ccTLD Delegation and Redelegation Performance Standards.
Summarized the comment states the following:
- For contested re/delegations, KPIs are inappropriate
- For non-contested re/delegations KPIs can be valuable butThe proposed 60 days is too long
- The proposed 80% SL is too low
- Incumbent registries should be made aware immediately of redelegation requests
- Incident stats should be kept and shared with the community
- Security and stability are the most important factors and should be recognized as such in any KPI framework
For the full comment, please go to: http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-cctld-drd-15jan13/


DK Hostmaster announces EPP for Registrars
The project has been run with ongoing feedback from the registrars. The EPP-service opens up for the possibility of requesting registrations of danish domain names via a standardised protocol. For the EPP-service DK Hostmaster offer a sandbox environment, making it possible for the registrars to test their client software , before utilizing our production environment. At the same time DK Hostmaster offer a public test environment for test of our server software where the registrars have the opportunity of assisting DK Hostmaster if they have resources and an interest in this.
The next step for DK Hostmaster in regard to EPP is to outline a plan for our follow-up on the requests, feedback and wishes, we have received from the registrars.
An EPP info page is available online with links to relevant resources.


February Roundup Available
The latest edition of the CENTR Monthly Roundup is available and covers the following
- Overview of ccTLD news from CENTR Members
- Selected findings from a recent CENTR survey entitled "System Maintenances and Disturbances"
- Statistics on growth and renewals
- Article on WTPF


.RU and .РФ neutralise 244 malicious domains in January
Coordination Center and Company Group–IB continue to cooperate within the framework of the Agreement on counteracting unauthorized use of domains .RU and .РФ. In January 2013, 254 applications were received claiming to cancel the delegation of malicious domain names. As a result, 244 domain names were removed from delegation in the accounting period and 10 domain names are still the delegation process.
The biggest share of detected malicious domains (80%) is accounted for by phishing resources, 12% is accounted for by the resources that spread malicious software. The least share falls on the domains through which botnets are being controlled (the networks of infected computers): there were only 8% of such domain names.
Moreover, as result of interaction between CERT-GIB and foreign organizations working on neutralization of malicious domains - Internet Identity, Spamhaus, Shadow Server, Symantec, Abuse.ch, Anti-Phishing Working Group, key control nodes of major distributed networks were neutralized in January, including Zeus, Feodo, Cridex, Slenfbot and others.
The details of how to inform about cyber threats and other illegal activity in the Internet you may find at the Website of the Coordination Center.


Estonian Registry signs contract with ICANN-accredited registrar Nameshield
The Estonian Internet Foundation has signed a registrar contract with Nameshield, a French registrar accredited by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). Nameshield has provided domain registration, trade mark protection and web hosting services internationally since 1994.
Further information about Nameshield can be found on their webpage www.nameshield.net.
The Foundation has contracts with 11 international registrars, 9 of whom are accredited by ICANN.


Nominet won't proceed with ‘direct.uk’ after stakeholder feedback
Following our Board meeting yesterday, we are not proceeding with our original proposal on ‘direct.uk’ but we will respond to feedback by looking at whether a revised proposal will address issues raised in the recent consultation.
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.PT 100% accessible by IPv6
The top level domain of Portugal .PT has since yesterday, all name servers in the DNS root accessible by IPv6, making it 100% compatible with this technology.
These servers are geographically dispersed, providing comprehensive coverage that serves all users (.PT) Internet community.
IANA delegation information here