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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
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.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
Blockages still a problem on the road to a multilingual Internet
Article Source: EURid - Go to Source
Ambitions to create a genuinely multilingual Internet are being frustrated by technical gridlocks and the solid dominance of Latin script and the English language.
Internet domains offering content in local languages and scripts need to be more user friendly if they are to challenge English’s overwhelming domination of the online world, says a report to be presented on February 26 during a conference at UNESCO’s Paris Headquarters. Prepared jointly by UNESCO and EURid, the European registry of Internet Domain Names , it calls on governments and other Internet stakeholders to step up their efforts to remove current obstacles to more languages going online.
There is no reliable count of web pages in English but among users, 27% adopt English and 24% Chinese. An estimated 56% of web sites are in English.
English was entrenched as the founding language of the Internet by the Domain Names System (DNS) which accommodates hundreds of millions of web addresses around the globe. DNS was launched on the basis of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange which favours Latin script by only allowing the characters a-z, the numbers 0-9 and the hyphen.
With an eye on breaking out of this linguistic ghetto, technical standards were developed for Internationalised Domain Name (IDNs), allowing domain names to be written in non-Latin scripts such as Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic or Hangul, the Korean alphabet. Countries where IDNs are taking off are the Russian Federation, the Republic of Korea and China.
The Report criticises most of the 19 country code IDNs currently operating for failing to capture the public imagination. IDNs are not user friendly and do not work well for emails or even Facebook accounts, says the report.
EURid-UNESCO conclusions urge policy makers to regard the promotion and deployment of IDNs as a key component of digital literacy.
The Report will be the launched on the second day of the World Summit on the Information Society +10 (WSIS+10), at 9 a.m. in Room 1.
NASK releases report for 4th quarter 2012
In 2012, more than 1 million new .pl domain names were registered, which is the second best result in the history of the Polish registry - according to the NASK's report on the .pl domain name market for the fourth quarter of 2012. Full version of the report (PDF) is available here