ICANN's Brussels office is hosting a webinar briefing for European stakeholders towards the end of the month.The event, which is being held at 1530 UTC on February 26th, will focus on some recent EU initiatives on digital services and cybersecurity. While it's an ICANN hosted event the bulk of the speakers will be from the European Commission.At the moment there are … [Read more...] about ICANN Brussels to Host EU Briefing
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Namescon Europe Chooses Budapest
NamesCon Global 2020 is being held in Austin, Texas next week. The event organisers have also just announced the location for the European edition of the domain event.NamesCon Europe will be held in Budapest, Hungary from August 6th to August 8th.The event will take place at the Budapest Marriott Hotel on the banks of the Danube.No details of the event schedule … [Read more...] about Namescon Europe Chooses Budapest
Cypriot (CY) ccTLD Now Offering Direct Registrations
The Cypriot ccTLD registry has opened up direct registrations ie. company.cyThey appear to have changed the rules back in December of last year and are giving priority to registrants of existing 3rd level names eg. thing.com.cyThe wording on their site also suggests that the registrations are not in "real time" and that there is some form of manual review.More … [Read more...] about Cypriot (CY) ccTLD Now Offering Direct Registrations
Namescon Europe Moves to Lisbon
NamesCon Europe (formerly known as Domaining Europe) was recently held in Valencia, Spain. Next year's event, however, will be in Lisbon, Portugal.The exact dates and venue for the domain event have not been announced, though it's meant to be held in June.The event organisers are already selling "early bird" tickets for the event, though for some odd reason they're … [Read more...] about Namescon Europe Moves to Lisbon
CENTR Awards to Include Best Registry as Chosen by Registrars
CENTR, the body which represent of European domain registries, will be holding its annual awards again this year. What's different for 2017 however is that they've added a new category:Registry of the YearAnd unlike with the other award categories, this one is open for voting to the registrar channel.The question registrars are being asked is:Based on the … [Read more...] about CENTR Awards to Include Best Registry as Chosen by Registrars
Eco and i2Coalition Strengthen Ties
Last week most of the hosting and domain name industry was in Rust, Germany for WHD.global. During the event i2Coalition and Eco worked together on several sessions and also signed a new MOU. Details below.Here's the full release: Leading Internet Associations Strengthen Cooperationeco Internet Industry Association e.V. , Europe’s largest Association serving the … [Read more...] about Eco and i2Coalition Strengthen Ties
DNS Belgium Moves Backend to the Cloud
DNS Belgium, who run the .be ccTLD domain registry, as well as .brussels and .vlaanderen, is moving its backend to the cloud.The domain registry announced last year that they would be migrating their backend to the cloud.Why?So they can focus on the software and services and not have to concern themselves with the hardware and colocation aspect of running clusters … [Read more...] about DNS Belgium Moves Backend to the Cloud
Eco to Address the Impact of Brexit On the Domain Industry
Eco, which is the largest internet industry association in Europe, is holding a virtual meeting later this month to discuss Brexit.The meeting, which is scheduled for July 27th at 1200 UTC, will be the first of several dialogues among industry to discuss the potential impact of the UK's exit from the EU on the domain name industry.As I mentioned in a recent post, the … [Read more...] about Eco to Address the Impact of Brexit On the Domain Industry
Brexit Could Impact EU Domain Registrants
The current policies for .eu domain name registration restrict registration to organisations, businesses and individuals that meet certain criteria.In order to get a .eu domain name you need to be resident within the EU, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein. This is laid out in the current policy as follows: (i)an undertaking having its registered office, central … [Read more...] about Brexit Could Impact EU Domain Registrants
EURid Gets .ею (Cyrillic for .eu)
EURid, who run the .eu registry, have finally been delegated .ею (Cyrillic for .eu). Punycode xn--e1a4c.One of the things that EURid is chartered to do under its contract to the European Commission was to get the extension in scripts other than Latin.EURid used ICANN's IDN ccTLD "Fast Track" process, though whether the process is truly "fast" or not is debatable, as it … [Read more...] about EURid Gets .ею (Cyrillic for .eu)