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Trends in Afnic's dispute resolution system Syreli
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


Canada Reaches Two Million .CA Internet Addresses
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 25th 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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The .CZ Domain Is Now a Millionaire
On the 19th 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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Iceland's Timeservers
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


Poland's position on changes in the ITR
In last days, the Ministry of Administration and Digitization has announced the change of Poland's position on the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR), which are under discussion by ITU.
The new position is based on the statement:
"Poland does not agree to the provisions, extending
the ITU mandate to the Internet administration related issues, among others,
domain name system administration, IP numbers and addresses assignment and
peering regulation. The government of the Republic of Poland does not support
the implementation to the ITR the provisions, enabling certain countries to
limit freedoms, fundamental rights and liberties”.


FCCN celebreates Protocol with Guinea Bissau
FCCN
celebrates collaboration protocol with the National Regulatory Authority of
Information Technologies and Communication of Guinea Bissau for technical
support in the operation of the country's top level domain, the ccTLD .GW The agreement signed in Lisbon by the
Presidents of both institutions results from the deepening of the relations
between the two countries as has already happened with Angola (.AO) and Cape
Verde (.CV)


Internet: The Homeless, the Subtenants and the Homeowners
Apart from the surroundings in which we truly live and work, in the course of the past few years we have also been provided with our virtual versions of living and working environment. If we view the Internet as a large virtual city, a multitude of pieces of «immovable» real-estate – that, in reality, happens to be quite «movable» indeed - the analogy with the real-life homeless, subtenants and landlords becomes quite appropriate.
In today’s age, individuals or companies not present on the Internet can truly be called the Internet-homeless. No one knows their Internet address because they simply don't have one! They don't even have their own personal or business profiles on one of the social networks, nor do they use any of the free e-mail services that would at least enable others to find them on the Web and establish some form of communication. You can run into the Internet-homeless – people or companies that exist only in the offline world - only by chance or under serendipitous circumstances, should your paths happen to cross. Nowadays it is almost impossible to operate as a serious business person or company if, along with your physical address, you do not possess an Internet address as well.
In an attempt to settle down on the Internet, the first thing the Internet-homeless person does is find free “room and board” in one of the social networks. Many feel that it makes no difference where they are; many even prefer to have only a profile or a page in places such as Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn... thinking that it’s a good idea since "everyone else is already there". Well, yes, they are – not literally everyone, of course – but many are there, and they’re living as Internet subtenants! The landlord of the Internet location is a multi-national company and your place of residence, currently free, is a matter of the landlord’s good will. However, you may be evicted as early as tomorrow, without notice. In a blink of an eye you may end up going from being an Internet subtenant to being Internet-homeless again! You won’t even be allowed to take your own “furniture” with you (photographs, notes, friends…). Actually, you’ll be leaving it all to the landlords - it will be inaccessible to you, but they will be able to continue to use it without any obstacles, as they see fit and without asking anyone for permission. Remember: in a social network, the things that you think are yours are actually the private property of whoever owns the social network. The owner is the one holding all the information and making up all the rules.
A social network resembles a café in which your friends are constantly gathering; it's a wonderful place to hang out, but you can not live or work in a café, you have to have a home or an office. All the while, “the owner of the café” is allowed to kick you out if you violate certain house rules. This already happened in social networks, to many people and for various reasons – many were left without their profiles and, consequently, without access to pages that they considered their own only a day earlier. The Terms of Use which, by the way, almost no one ever takes time to read, explain in black and white that the owners are in no way obligated to their users and that having provided the service free of charge, they are allowed to erase someone’s profile whenever they wish In truth, all these social network profiles are free only because the owner of the Internet location is using the data that millions of users are providing about themselves, in order to make a better sale to companies that advertise their products or services on social networks. You are in fact nothing else than their Internet location's value added.
If you truly wish to have a place of your own on the Internet, you must build it using your own Internet domain name. Only then will you become an Internet homeowner. Your Internet domain name is a part of your web and e-mail addresses, representing the basis of your Internet identity. Each Internet domain name is unique and may be used by only one company or person. Your domain name will be your permanent, personally selected address through which everyone will always be able to find you or recognize you on the Internet! Only then will you have a "home, sweet home". Аs regards your "sweet home" it has been recommended that you create it using one of the national Internet domains, such as our local .RS and .СРБ domains. There are many sound reasons to do this, the most important being that in its search results Google favors websites created on local, national Internet domains.
In real life, residence addresses or
company seats are changeable categories. You have moved, or a state authority has
decided to change the name of your street... the reason isn't important. The
situation is the same with phone numbers, causing many personal and business
connections to become unnecessarily severed by outdated contact information.
When you register your own Internet domain name, you will have a permanent
address and you will own that piece of Internet space for as long as you keep
paying for the use of your domain name. You will be the owner of everything that
occurs on that specific address, and
you will be making all the rules, on
your own, the way it suits you.
Article Courtesy Predrag Milicevic - RNIDS


'Around the ccTLDs world: The journey continues' - CENTR Workshop at the IGF in Baku
CENTR, in cooperation with the other regional ccTLD organisations, is organising a workshop at the Internet Governance Forum in Baku, Azerbaijan.
This year’s workshop is titled ‘Around the ccTLDs world: The journey continues’ and will focus on the diversity of ccTLD policy models and show how different approaches serve different local needs.
When? Where?
Thursday 8 November, 2.30pm-4pm
Conference room 2
IGF2012, Baku, Azerbeidzjan
For more information;
- IGF 2012 Binder - Workshop Description, pannelists and topics
- What is the Internet Governance Forum
- IGF Website


CENTR Monthly Roundup October 2012 - Available
- Member 185
- Survey - Publication of Registry Zone File
- Afnic wins domain infringement decision
- Upcoming events


2nd Ukrainian domain industry Conference in Kiev
The purpose of the event to be held in Kiev on December 7, is to evaluate prospects and trends
of the domain market. The forum will be attended by domain name registrars,
public domain administrators, representatives of major Ukrainian Internet
projects and content creators, telecommunications operators and service
providers, as well as members of the Internet market in Ukraine and neighbouring
countries.
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