The eco Association has updated its white paper “BREXIT – Challenges for the Domain Industry?”. It now highlights more strongly BREXIT’s legal and taxation consequences for companies. “With the expected hard BREXIT, the legal uncertainties for companies are now greater than ever,” says Egon Schmitz, Certified...

eco - Association of the Internet Industry e.V. - Europe’s largest Association serving the interests of the Internet Industry, with more than 1,000 members from more than 60 countries - and the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition), a rapidly growing association with 100+ of the largest and most influential...

A complete eco Team is at the WHD.global from 25 to 31 March in Europa-Park, in Rust. One of the team is Roland Broch, Head of Member Development, who has visited the event regularly since 2009. In this interview, he explains how the WorldHostingDays have changed, what highlights are in store for visitors this year, and...

ICANN continues work after the IANA transition With precisely 2,086 participants, the 58th ICANN meeting took place in Copenhagen last week. Now, around six months ago, the IANA transition was completed. However, ICANN have not yet been able to return to “business as usual”, but there was again more room for other...

27 March 2017 – Hotel El Andaluz, 10:00 PM The day is just not long enough! One of the most popular features at WHD.global has become the nightTALKs. Where Your Next Billion Customers Will Come From There’s one roadblock that keeps the next billion cloud and hosting companies from beating down your door – and...

Speakers sought for four focus topics Conference, exhibition and networking on today’s and tomorrow’s security trends on 28-29 September 2017 German-language conference, but English-language papers also accepted From 28 to 29 September 2017 eco – Association of the Internet Industry and heise Medien invite...

“Who rules the Internet?”: The latest issue of eco's English-language e-magazine, dotmagazine, is now online. In the March issue, we look into the mechanisms of global governance and self-regulation that are helping to keep cyberspace healthy, and we offer insight into the Domain Name System – how the telephone book...

Taking long-standing collaboration to the next level During the 57th General Assembly of CENTR, the association of European country code top-level domain name registries, eco was approved as a member with observer status. Before the election, Thomas Rickert, eco Director Names and Numbers, and Lars Steffen discussed...

Universal Acceptance Steering Group Background Universal Acceptance is a foundational requirement for a truly multilingual Internet, one in which users around the world can navigate entirely in local languages. It is also the key to unlocking the potential of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to foster competition,...

Universal Acceptance Steering Group Background Universal Acceptance is a foundational requirement for a truly multilingual Internet, one in which users around the world can navigate entirely in local languages. It is also the key to unlocking the potential of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to foster competition,...

Universal Acceptance Steering Group Background Universal Acceptance is a foundational requirement for a truly multilingual Internet, one in which users around the world can navigate entirely in local languages. It is also the key to unlocking the potential of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to foster competition,...

Universal Acceptance Steering Group Background Universal Acceptance is a foundational requirement for a truly multilingual Internet, one in which users around the world can navigate entirely in local languages. It is also the key to unlocking the potential of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to foster competition,...

Universal Acceptance Steering Group Background Universal Acceptance is a foundational requirement for a truly multilingual Internet, one in which users around the world can navigate entirely in local languages. It is also the key to unlocking the potential of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to foster competition,...

Universal Acceptance Steering Group Background Universal Acceptance is a foundational requirement for a truly multilingual Internet, one in which users around the world can navigate entirely in local languages. It is also the key to unlocking the potential of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to foster competition,...

eco Association calls for more effort from operators and software developers A large number of websites und Internet clients – such as email servers, email clients, routers, and Internet services – are still not supporting all domain names. Often, they can only process domain endings of up to three characters – and...

By Ram Mohan, Chair of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group With the start of the new year, I’m reminded of the important progress we’ve made as the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG). Over the past 12 months, our community-led team of industry leaders has advanced the effort to prepare the online community...

Perspectives for the Gigabit Society The New Year’s reception at the eco Capital Office in Berlin on 24.01.2017 will be running under the motto of "Perspectives for the Gigabit Society". The President of the Bundesnetzagentur (German Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway), Jochen...

eco invites you to the eco New Year’s Reception on 19 January in eco headquarters in Cologne With drinks, fingerfood and live Lounge Reggae & Jazz. EXPLORE HYBRID WORLDS! Mixed-Reality Technologies are expanding out physical dimension more and more – including our day-to-day living space. Hybrid worlds are...

25 – 31 March 2017 – Europa-Park | Rust | Germany WorldHostingDays is the global event series for the cloud services and internet infrastructure industries. The main event is WHD.global, a week-long festival that happens annually in Germany. It’s where leaders come together to understand how all digital technologies...

• eco – Association of the Internet Industry e.V. supports WHD.global 2017 with events on network policy and the domain industry • Association members benefit as WHD.global 2017 exhibitors and visitors • eco given seat in the WorldHostingDays Content Advisory Board The next WHD.global 2017 from 25 to 31 March 2017...

Recent major deals, like the takeover of Host Europe Group by GoDaddy demonstrate the consolidation trends in the Housing and Hosting sector Providers want to exploit economies of scale and expand geographically The beginning of December 2016 has seen two major deals in the Housing and Hosting sector: GoDaddy...

14 - 16 May 2017, Berlin – in cooperation with eco Limited number of eco Special Early Bird Tickets available! Domaining Europe is the event, where Top-Level Decision Makers from the global Domain Industry meet, make business and share new tendencies, tools and knowledge. WHY DOMAINING EUROPE Domaining Europe enables...

eco’s Lars Steffen has been appointed Co-Coordinator of the Community Outreach Project Group as part of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group. In this role, he will work closely with his co-lead, Christian Dawson, from the i2Coalition. The Universal Acceptance Steering Group concentrates on topics related to...

The IANA Stewardship Transition has taken effect. On the night of 30 September to 1 October, the responsible telecommunications authority in the US Department of Commerce, the NTIA, allowed the contract with ICANN relating to the IANA functions to expire. As a result, for the first time since ICANN was founded in 1998,...

eco Association – Names & Numbers Forum presents discussion paper Changes unavoidable for some Top Level Domains Experts define options for action The Brexit referendum is likely to have a substantial impact on the Domains industry. This is the essence of the new discussion paper “Brexit – Challenges...

5 October 2016 – Belgrade The eco Names & Numbers Forum will be represented by Thomas Rickert and Lars Steffen at the CENTR Registrar Day when the 56. CENTR General Assembly takes place in Belgrade. We are looking forward to valuable talks and interesting speeches! Social event All participants to the CENTR...