Toggle navigation Names & Numbers Home News Events Topics Downloads Community GDPR Playbook topDNS News Domains Help Wanted: EAI Technical Documentation Writer 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,... Domains Help Wanted: Develop University Lectures on Universal Acceptance 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,... Domains press release Many Websites and Email Services Still Not Supporting All Domains 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... 26.01.2017 Domains Universal Acceptance: A Year of Progress and What’s Ahead 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... Domains eco New Year's Reception 2017 Berlin 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... Domains eco New Year’s Reception & Cocktail Evening 2017 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... Domains WHD.global 2017 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... Domains WorldHostingDays and eco Association in cooperation • 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... Datacenter eco Association: Further Consolidation of Housing and Hosting Sector 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... Domains eco Names & Numbers Steering Committee CALL FOR PARTICIPATION! Send your expression of interest until 30 November The eco Names & Numbers Forum is reaching out to its members on a regular basis with updates on our current work via the members-only mailing list, through newsletters and the eco-website. There are lots of ideas, new projects and collaborations... Domains IX Domaining Europe 2017 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... Domains ICANN Leadership Award for Thomas Rickert IANA Transition heroes honored at ICANN57 in Hyderabad An ICANN Leadership Award goes to eco: Thomas Rickert has been honored by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for his substantial work supporting the IANA Stewardship Transition. As one of the Co-Chairs der CCWG (Cross Community Working... Domains eco’s Lars Steffen Named Co-Coordinator of Universal Acceptance Community Outreach Project Group 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... Domains IANA Stewardship Transition Successful #yestoIANA 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,... Domains IANA Transition Thriller Has a Happy Ending #yestoIANA IANA Transition in Retrospect – Piecing together the puzzle Anyone who had previously thought that the transfer of a database function could only cause a minimum increase in pulse-rate was taught the error of their ways in the last few weeks. At midnight leading into the 1 October, Washington DC time, the “IANA Stewardship... Domains That was close... The IANA Transition is coming! #yestoIANA Finally last night there was certainty: The IANA Stewardship Transition will neither be stopped nor delayed further by the US government. Cologne/Washington (USA), 29.09.2016 - The background to this announcement: The US Government announced in March last year their desire to give up their sole control over the IANA functions... Domains Brexit Puts Thousands of British-Owned Domains into Question 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... Domains CENTR Registrar Day 2016 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... Domains IANA Stewardship Transition: An Important Milestone Has Been Reached A decisive breakthrough has been made in the process started nearly two decades ago to put the administration of the Internet Domain Name System in private hands. The National Telecommunications & Information Administration of the United States Department of Commerce, NTIA, is now prepared to finally transfer the IANA... Domains Webinar: CWG Accountability 23 August 2016, 22:00 UTC – remote participation The aim is to brief the GNSO Council and the broader GNSO Community on the Proposed Cost Control Mechanisms, as well as the request for validation of the CCWG-Accountability Budget as requested by the GNSO Council in its letter of 10 July 2016 (see http://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/bladel-to-bfc-ccwg-accountability-chairs-10jul16-en.pdf). Presenters ... Networks Acknowledging a Homeland: .ruhr eco Domain Name Heads – Interview with Bernhard Lüders, CEO of Sutter Telefonbuchverlag GmbH Not only was the German .ruhr the first new top-level domain to become generally available, on 27 March 2014, as part of ICANN’s “new gTLD Program”, it again took the lead with the announcement on 5 April 2016 by the telephone... Networks OX Summit 2016 Summit, Executive Brunch & River Cruise OX Summit connects the key decision-makers from hoster, telco, cable and mobile carriers to exchange the valued business insight and technology expertise that regional and global providers need to transform their growth. This is the industry & portfolio showcase that connects... Domains Report: 56th ICANN Meeting Community continues to drive IANA Transition forward Not yet implemented, but with good progress made in recent months, the transferal of the administration of the Domain Name System root zone away from US supervision to the ICANN community – the IANA Stewardship Transition – continued to be a defining topic at the... Policy & Law eco on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield: An Important Step for Business eco welcomes the treaty on transatlantic data transfer Privacy Shield finally restores companies' legal certainty New data protection treaty has significantly higher level of data protection It was long-awaited good news for business: On 12 July 2016, the so-called Privacy Shield came into effect, after the Member... Policy & Law The Countdown Has Started: Blanket Data Retention is Turning into... eco calls for lawmakers to change course The requirements are causing financial ruin for small and medium-sized enterprises SMEs need financial compensation for the implementation and ongoing costs Legislator must define practical rules compliant with EU law At the latest a year from now, on 1 July 2017,... Domains Encryption: “It’s worth the effort” Encryption is more important today than ever before. We spoke to Klaus Schmeh – cryptography expert, author, and consultant at cryptovision – to find out why it is not being used more widely. Klaus Schmeh deals with the topic encryption almost daily in his German-language blog, the Klausis Krypto Kolumne. Mr Schmeh,... © CC0 Creative Commons Domains BREXIT – Challenges for the Domain Industry 27 July 2016, 12.00-13.00 UTC – remote meeting BREXIT is posing multiple challenges on the domain industry. Many registries have local presence requirements only allowing for individuals and companies residing in the European Union to register domain names. Will UK registrants now loose their domain names? How will... Networks Presentation & Discussion: Hybrid Global Outreach Event ICANN56 Helsinki – 28 June 2016, 1:30-2:30 pm, Helsinki Hall eco – Association of the Internet Industry is planning a global concerted initiative consisting of virtual and physical meetings to inform and educate about domain names, doing business online and broader internet governance topics. The session on Tuesday... Networks Transition Proposal from ICANN Fulfils NTIA Requirements Proposal on IANA Stewardship Transition examined by NTIA On 9 June 2016, the National Telecommunications & Information Administration of the US Department of Commerce (NTIA) took a public position on the IANA Stewardship Transition proposal. The telecommunications authority received the proposal from the ICANN community... Networks WEBINAR: PRE-ICANN56 POLICY UPDATE Please RSVP via this form by 10 June 2016 Remote participation details will be sent the week of 13 June 2016 The ICANN Policy Development Support Team will provide a Policy Update Webinar on Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 10:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC, in preparation for the upcoming ICANN Policy Forum in Helsinki. The purpose... show more
