This month, dotmagazine explores the interplay between online and offline identities, identity management and authentication, and finding "things" in the Internet of Things.

The 65th international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) took place in Marrakech from 24th to 27th of June 2019. ICANN65 was the fourth ever Policy Forum and the second one to be held in the African region. The Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees had taken the lead in...

The Temp Spec is not dead – it just smells funny: Thomas Rickert & Lars Steffen from the eco Names & Numbers Forum, on the 1-year anniversary of ICANN's Temporary Specification for the processing of personal data in the context of domain registrations.

Call for contributions from eco member companies and specialists on the topics of IoT, Smart Environments, and Identifying People & Things Online.

This year's EuroDIG is coming up on the 19th and 20th of June, and will take place this time in The Hague. In a brief interview, Lars Steffens, Director of eco international and Project Manager of Blockchain & Domains, explains why he and eco's Honorary President Michael Rotert will be attending EuroDIG.

The 3rd Global Conference of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network is coming up on 3-5 June, and will take place this time in Berlin. In a short interview, Lars Steffen, Director of eco International & Project Manager of Blockchain & Domains, explains eco’s reasons for attending this international event.

ID4me AISBL announces launch of their global and independent Single Sign-On (SSO) protocol.

The 64th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) took place in Kobe from 11th to 14th of March 2019. ICANN64 was the Community Forum of 2019, with an attendance of 1,707 participants.

In an article for INTUG, Don Holland from the Universal Acceptance Steering Group at ICANN describes the development of new gTLDs and Internationalized Domain Names, the implications for CIOs, and what to do next to ensure ‘universal acceptance’

Data protection and increasing attacks on the DNS infrastructure are two of the topics on the agenda of the next ICANN Meeting.

Katrin Ohlmer from DOTZON looks at how domain owners can monitor and prevent abuse of their domain name to protect themselves and their customers.

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The 63rd meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) took place in Barcelona from 20th to 25th of October 2018. ICANN holds three international meetings per year, which rotate among five geographic regions and three meeting formats with different subject areas of focus. With an attendance...

On 28th November in Cologne, the eco Association will present one of the Internet industry’s most prestigious awards. In seven award categories, a jury of experts comprising of representatives from industry, academia, research, and politics has selected the three most promising submissions of 2018 and nominated them for the eco://award.

The first-ever rollover of the key used to sign the Domain Name System’s DNSSEC security extensions has been hailed as a success by ICANN.

The first-ever DNS root key-signing key (KSK) rollover on 11 October may leave some users unable to get online - All operators of validating resolvers need to ensure that their trust anchors are updated before it’s too late.

eco International interviewed Neal McPherson (Portfolio Manager at 1&1 Internet SE) & Tobias Sattler (Chief Information Officer at united-domains AG & Vice Chairmen of the ICANN Registrar Stakeholder Group) on their joint RFC proposal for a standarized Registry Reporting Repository for accredited domain name registrars.

eco – Association of the Internet Industry today submitted comments on the European Commission’s notice to stakeholders for handling the existing registrations of .eu domain names of UK residents and businesses, totaling more than 300,000, in the event of BREXIT.

In the category “Domains”, companies are awarded with the eco://award for outstanding innovative business models or services relating to TLDs. Lars Steffen, Director of eco International and Project Manager for Names & Numbers, supervises the award category “Domains” and in this interview provides further information.

On 17 May 2018, the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) adopted the proposed Temporary Specification for Registration Data of generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs).

With an attendance of 1,100 participants, the ICANN62 in Panama City was the ICANN policy forum meeting, with a compact agenda focused on working on ICANN policy matters, and a number of cross-community discussions on key policy issues of broad interest.

The European Registry for Internet Domains (EURid) and the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC), have announced a joint effort to fight cybercrime in the .eu and .ею domain name space.

Lars Steffen, Director of eco International, explains why Universal Acceptance (UA) is important in today's globalized and interconnected world.

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Hear eco's Thomas Rickert, eco Chair Oliver Süme, and i2Coalition's Christian Dawson at ICANN62, giving an update on the GDPR, and discussing how local laws can have global reach.

Final Report from the ICANN Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) on Work Stream 2 expected by the end of ICANN63

The City of Hamburg, as joint hosts with the eco Association and DENIC, to welcome the international Internet community for the 2020 conference and AGM of ICANN, the global coordinator of domain name administration.

EURid’s 5th iteration of the .eu Web Awards puts forth a revised nomination and voting process and a new website to engage even more proud .eu and .ею domain name holders. The .eu Web Awards is an online competition acknowledging the best websites using the .eu or .ею extensions, in 5 categories.

As negotiations proceed towards the ultimate separation of the United Kingdom from the EU, the European Commission has come to a decision on European domain names: British businesses that are not also established in the EU and private individuals living in the UK will no longer fulfill the legal requirements to have a .eu URL.

The ICANN61 Community Forum took place in San Juan, Puerto Rico from 10th to 15th of March, with an attendance of 1919 registered participants. As could be expected, the agenda of the first meeting in 2018 covered a wide range of topics, such as the discussion about geographical names and the cuts in the ICANN budget.

As Domaining Europe enters its 10th year, the event itself will now be hosted now under a new name NamesCon Europe. For this reason, we interviewed Dietmar Stefitz, the founder of Domaining Europe. What can be expected in 2018?

The landscape of top level domains is changing all the time. So, how do you select a TLD that is relevant to you? And what opportunities are offered by brand TLDs? How valuable is a domain name to a brand? Very, says Martin Kuechenthal, CEO of LEMARIT – companies need to establish, monitor, and protect their brand names, through domain names, in cyber space.