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EURid Web Awards 2017

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EURid held their annual web awards in central Brussels last week. The awards are focussed on businesses, organisations and individuals that are actively using a .eu domain name for their online presence. As with every year the range of finalists covered the European Union. Here's the official video they released that covers the … [Read more...] about EURid Web Awards 2017

Catalan Government Claims Spanish Online Censorship Breaching EU Laws

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The Catalan government has written to the European Commission claiming that the Spanish government is in breach of EU law. In a letter from Jordi Puigneró Secretary of Telecommunications, Cybersecurity and the Digital Society at the Government of Catalonia addressed to Andrus Ansip, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, the Catalan government calls out the … [Read more...] about Catalan Government Claims Spanish Online Censorship Breaching EU Laws

EU Commission Opens Public Consultation on EU Domain

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The .eu ccTLD is quite different in that it is run by the European Commission. The Commission contracts EURid to run the registry on their behalf. As the entire thing is setup and managed by the European Union institutions the ccTLD's policies are based on European treaties and laws. Complicated? Yes, but it's still fully functional and one of the larger ccTLDs. Last Friday … [Read more...] about EU Commission Opens Public Consultation on EU Domain

WHD Global Releases Parody Video

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WHD Global are obviously having a lot of fun producing videos in the run up to this year's "cloud festival" in Germany. Their latest release follows in the footsteps of several European countries that want to be put second, assuming that America is first. So here's the WHD entry to the competition, if there was a competition .. https://youtu.be/Iy84ZdK29wI The video … [Read more...] about WHD Global Releases Parody Video

DNS Belgium Moves Backend to the Cloud

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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

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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

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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)

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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)