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The latest Monthly Roundup newsletter is available for download below. 
In this months edition:

• Member 185
• DNSSEC and Government Survey Summary
• IGF Joint workshop summary
• Statistics 

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Twice a year, CENTR produces its Domainwire Stat report which is a broad level publication covering statistics on ccTLDs and gTLDs globally with a focus on European ccTLDs.  The second edition for 2012 is now available with the following key statistics;

• ccTLD/gTLD global breakdown
• Top 20 largest ccTLD list
• Market Share and penetration rates in Europe
• Growth of European ccTLDs
• World Internet Usage and penetration rates

The NASK programmers started developing the software, supporting digitalization and archiving of the .pl domain registry documentation.

With the end of December 2012, the system is planned to be launched in the production environment, and consequently documents are to be transferred to electronic archives.

Whether motivated by an extreme form of free expression or criminal intent, distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks) are increasingly commonplace worldwide. Yet there remains a universal misunderstanding amongst the general public of what to do in the event of a DDoS attack.  According to a survey commissioned by Public Interest Registry (PIR) – the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain – to better assess Americans’ basic understanding of Internet and network attacks, 85 percent of Americans are uninformed or ill-equipped to deal with a DDoS attack. Moreover, only 17 percent could correctly identify what the acronym DDoS stood for with 77 percent admitting that they had no idea.
 
Through this survey, it was ultimately revealed that across the board there is a lack of understanding about DDoS attacks despite their increasing frequency. When asked whom should be the first point of call when one experiences a DDoS attack, respondents’ answers varied –a select number correctly identified a DNS Service Provider while the large majority of people said their first point of call would be their local electronic department store, a technology publication, their spouse or children, Google or the police, to name a few. 

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A report on IETF85 Meeting held recently in Atlanta is now available. 

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The announced migration of the database for .de domains to another database management system was successfully completed during scheduled maintenance on 18 and 19 November 2012. The registry system and all further services are up and running again.

 

Launched on 21 November 2011, Syreli, the Afnic dispute resolution system is doing well: over the past year, Afnic has dealt with 157 cases and handed down 138 decisions. And the number of files from claimants is steadily increasing, as is the diversity of their profiles, which include local authorities, right-holders, individuals, and State departments. ...read more 

CIRA announced it has reached the two million mark for registered .CA Internet domain names. This milestone demonstrates Canadians’ rapidly increasing adoption of .CA domain names for personal and business use: it took 21 years for one million .CA domain names to be registered and just four years to reach the next million.

The two million mark is all the more poignant as it comes at the close of the 25^th anniversary of the founding of the .CA domain. It was established in 1987 by a group of volunteers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and transferred to CIRA in 2000. In 1988, the first .CA domain name, upei.ca, was registered by the University of Prince Edward Island.

eora Rissin, a retired schoolteacher from Toronto, Ontario, registered the two-millionth .CA domain name, algonquinhouse.ca. She is planning to use it to promote her new small business, a bed and breakfast near High Park.

“For me, having a .CA lets everyone know you’re a Canadian business,” said Ms. Rissin.

“.CA is like having a Canadian flag on your digital backpack,” says Byron Holland, President and CEO of CIRA. “It represents Canada on the Internet. And research shows Canadians prefer.CA sites for online news, banking and shopping. So it’s no surprise our numbers continue to climb.”

.CA is the fourth fastest-growing Internet domain name registry and the fourteenth largest compared to other country specific domain names like .uk (United Kingdom). “When we started the .CA domain there were only a few thousand computers on the Internet – in total – and no one thought it would ever be so pervasive,” says John Demco, who led the team responsible for creating the .CA top-level domain at UBC in 1987. “Now Canada leads the world in the amount of time its citizens spend online, and while the Internet from a technology perspective doesn’t concern itself with nationality, Canadians strongly identify with.CA domain names and the registration of two million .CAs is proof of that.”

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On the 19^th of November, domain name number 1,000,000 appeared in the register of the Czech national domain .CZ maintained by the CZ. NIC Association. Among the top-level domains of member states of the EU, the .CZ domain became the 12th “millionaire” and is among those with the fastest growth. Over 10,000 new domains are registered each month. This achievement was helped particularly by the introduction of the FRED registration system, which is 5 years old this October, and which made the registration process considerably faster and cheaper.

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ISNIC has installed a professional grade NTP server (time0.ntp.is). NTP Clients and servers can therefore access a stratum 1 timeserver in Iceland. The timeserver is GPS based, and retrieves it's information from an antenna located on the top of the office tower where ISNIC's office is located. ISNIC provides a seperate timeserver, which is a member of the pool.ntp.org project, and is directly and immediately accessible to anyone who installs a Linux or FreeBSD OS automatically.

If you use native IPv6 and are located in Iceland, you can use 2.is.pool.ntp.orgin your configuration to make sure you're accessing the local IPv6 address of the server as a first choice, otherwise you can use is.pool.ntp.org in your timeserver configuration.

Operating a public NTP service is a long term project, which strengthens and improves the domestic internet. Access to an accurate and not so distant timeservers is very important for many of the services operated on the internet, and on your network. The clock can be viewed on www.timeserver.is

ISNIC's System Administrator, Mr. Bj