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Executive Event: WHD.racing 2016

15 - 16 June 2016, Salzburg The WHD.racing event is designed for owners, founders, and senior executives from the hosting and cloud industry. We want to bring Industry Leaders together and provide a platform for open and honest discussions on some of the most important topics facing our companies today. The goal is to...
Conference: ICANN56 Helsinki | Policy Forum
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Conference: ICANN56 Helsinki | Policy Forum

27 - 30 June 2016, Helsinki Meet the eco Names & Numbers Forum! You have requirements and feedback or questions about eco? We will be happy to be there for you! Oliver Süme (eco Deputy Chair of the Board) Thomas Rickert (Co-Chair CCWG, eco Director Names & Numbers) and Lars Steffen (Member Services, eco...
Domains

Conference: Domaining Europe 2016

29 - 31 May 2016 – 300€ Discount for eco Members! This is the 8th Domaining Europe in a row. Until now it has been celebrated yearly in Valencia Spain, but in 2016 it will be the first time in Den Hague, in one of the most spectacular settings, where Marlene Dietrich, Helmut Kohl, Winston Churchill, Leonard Bernstein...
Das Algenative Rechenzentrum - Vom Consumer zum Prosumer
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Introduction to Universal Acceptance published

Documentation for System Architects & Developers available The Universal Acceptance Steering Group published this week version 8 of the Introduction to Universal Acceptance. The 40 page technical look at Universal Acceptance is ready now to spread the word about Universal Acceptance where, even now, not all valid Domain...
CSA Summit 2017
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The CSA Summit 2016 – Exploring trust along the value chain of email...

.alignleft > img { max-height:145px; } Blue is the color of trust and shoes have a lot to do with building trust. At least according to Ivo Ivanov, the Director of the Certified Senders Alliance, who took attendees of the CSA Summit 2016, 20 – 22 April 2016 in Cologne, Germany, on a journey exploring trust along...
eco unterstützt SpaceNet bei Klage gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung
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eco Supports SpaceNet in Lawsuit against Blanket Data Retention

eco and SpaceNet push for a landmark decision Blanket data retention violates European civil rights Costs running into the millions for the Internet industry The Internet provider SpaceNet is seeking, with the support of eco, to get a court decision that it is not obligated to comply with the new German...
09.05.2016
Das Algenative Rechenzentrum - Vom Consumer zum Prosumer
Domains

Help Wanted... IDN, Unicode, Network Protocols and IETF engagement...

Universal Acceptance Steering Group 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, consumer choice...
Domains

New Top Level Domains: Who gets ‘.africa’?

While the process of introducing New Top Level Domains is going smoothly for many domains, a legal dispute over the control of ‘.africa’ is still unsettled – and raises questions about the validity of ICANN’s registration process. Because of its importance, ‘.africa’ was not sold, but rather administered to...
An evolution towards more trust on the Internet
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An evolution towards more trust on the Internet

Interview with Marc van Wesemael, CEO of EURid April 2016 marks the 10th anniversary of the European registry EURid, the domains registry which manages the .eu top-level domain. And although managing a single TLD may sound simple, that’s not necessarily the case. The challenges of multilingual Europe – and now the...
Das Algenative Rechenzentrum - Vom Consumer zum Prosumer
Domains

Help Wanted…Web Site Development, Hosting & Maintenance

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,...
TÜV-zertifizierte Datenlöschung
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“The global community has proven that the multi-stakeholder model...

Thomas Rickert on the work of the CCWG Accountability This interview appeared in German on 23 March 2016 on domain-recht.de – the Domains blog. Reproduced and translated with the kind permission of lawyers Florian Hitzelberger and Daniel Dingeldey <http://www.domain-recht.de> Lawyer Thomas Rickert from Bonn is...
Das Algenative Rechenzentrum - Vom Consumer zum Prosumer
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Help Wanted... Preparation of a White Paper outlining the importance...

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, consumer...
Das Algenative Rechenzentrum - Vom Consumer zum Prosumer
Domains

Help Wanted… Technical Document Copy Editing

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,...
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geoTLDs –Added Value for Regions, Cities & Companies?

eco Domain Name Talks beim WHD.global 2016 Die dritte und letzte Panel-Diskussion im Rahmen der Domain Name Talks drehte sich um die geoTLDs, mit den Diskussionsteilnehmern Anja Elsing von der .RUHR Registry regiodot GmbH & Co. KG , Dirk Krischenowski von dotBERLIN GmbH Co. KG , Crystal Peterson von Neustar, Inc. ...
Building Towards Tomorrow’s Internet:Fixing IDNs, EAI & Universal Acceptance
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Building Towards Tomorrow’s Internet:Fixing IDNs, EAI & Universal...

eco Domain Name Talks beim WHD.global 2016 Universal Acceptance war das Thema des ersten Panels am 17. März beim WHD.global. Nach einer Video-Einleitung von Ram Mohan von Afilias , begann eine lebhafte Podiumsdiskussion, co-moderiert von Lars Steffen (eco) und Christian Dawson ( i2Coalition ). Zu den Diskussionsteilnehmern...
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geoTLDs –Added Value for Regions, Cities & Companies?

eco Domain Name Talks at WHD.global 2016 The third and final session of the Domain Name Talks focused on the geoTLDs, and the speakers Anja Elsing from .RUHR Registry – regiodot GmbH & Co. KG, Dirk Krischenowski from dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG, Crystal Peterson from Neustar, Inc. (representing .nyc, .melbourne and...
Domains

brandTLDs – The Great Unkowns

eco Domain Name Talks at WHD.global 2016 The second panel session dealt with the in general public still relatively unknown phenomenon of the dot Brands. These have been quite slow in taking off, despite the fact that a number of them have long been approved by ICANN. The panel, moderated by Lars Steffen and consisting...
Building Towards Tomorrow’s Internet:Fixing IDNs, EAI & Universal Acceptance
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Building Towards Tomorrow’s Internet:Fixing IDNs, EAI & Universal...

eco Domain Name Talks at WHD.global 2016 Universal Acceptance was the topic of eco’s first panel session on 17 March at WHD.global. After a video explanation by Ram Mohan from Afilias, a lively panel discussion began, co-moderated by eco’s Lars Steffen and Christian Dawson from i2Coalition, and including Bert Hubert...
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Report: Domain Name Talks at WHD.global 2016

eco sessions on the domain name industry At WHD.global we had the pleasure to organize three panel discussions about some of the current hot topics in the domain name industry: "Building Towards Tomorrow’s Internet: Fixing IDNs, EAI & Universal Acceptance", "brandTLDs – The Great Unkowns" and "geoTLDs – Added Value...
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Report: 55th ICANN Meeting

ICANN Board Transmits IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal and Enhancing ICANN Accountability Recommendations to NTIA As in several ICANN meetings before, the ICANN55 in Marrakech was dominated by the IANA Stewardship Transition. The Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability)...
Universal Acceptance – How to enable the next billion users
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Getting Next Billion Online –Universal Acceptance

WHD.global sessions "Domain Name Talks" Internationalized domain names and e-mail addresses may already exist for new languages and alphabets – Han, Cyrillic, Hangul, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew and Greek – but help is still needed to enable universal access. 3.2 billion people are online worldwide, according to the International...
Universal Acceptance – How to enable the next billion users
Domains

Getting Next Billion Online –Universal Acceptance

WHD.global sessions "Domain Name Talks" Internationalized domain names and e-mail addresses may already exist for new languages and alphabets – Han, Cyrillic, Hangul, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew and Greek – but help is still needed to enable universal access. 3.2 billion people are online worldwide, according to the International...
Domains

A victory for the multi-stakeholder model

History is being made in ICANN this week in Marrakech – how exactly the Internet will be administered in the future is in the process of being taken forward. The ICANN Cross Community Working Group (CCWG) on Enhancing ICANN Accountability has released its final report, which was then approved by the CcNSO (Country Code...
Domains

The Internet isMore International than Ever Before

Internationalized domain names and e-mail addresses are extending the Internet to include new languages and alphabets 3.2 billion people are online worldwide, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and around 45 percent of all households have access to the Internet. Despite these impressive figures,...
WHD.global –Rethinking Privacy After Safe Harbor
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WHD.global –Rethinking Privacy After Safe Harbor

Thomas Rickert, John Zanni & Edward Snowden @ Acronis night.TALK – Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 US/EU Safe Harbor provided a framework for companies from both regions to do business with one another despite very different privacy laws, but those protections are gone. A European court invalidated it over lax...
dotBrands Part 1 – 2012 Round Application Status
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dotBrands Part 1 – 2012 Round Application Status

An analysis of the .brand landscape This will be the first of a three part blog reviewing .brand gTLDs applied for in 2012. Part one will review the status of .brand applications that made up nearly half of all applications to ICANN. The second part will provide an analysis on the stats and activity of the .brand gTLDs...
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Internet Transition Planners Finalize Text of Accountability Program,...

Accountability and Transparency Reproduced with permission from Electronic Commerce & Law Report, 21 ECLR (Mar. 2, 2016). Copyright 2016 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) <http://www.bna.com> A proposal for increasing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’s accountability...
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Final Piece of Internet Transition Plan Delayed by ICANN Board Intervention

Accountability and Transparency Reproduced with permission from Electronic Commerce & Law Report, 21 ECLR 249 (Feb. 24, 2016). Copyright 2016 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) <http://www.bna.com> An Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers working group will decide Feb. 23 how to...
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Last Piece of ICANN Plan to End U.S. Internet Oversight Expected

Accountability and Transparency Reproduced with permission from Electronic Commerce & Law Report, 21 ECLR 249 (Feb. 24, 2016). Copyright 2016 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) <http://www.bna.com> An Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers working group plans to release late...
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CCWG-Accountability Delivers Report to Chartering Organizations

On 24 February 2016, the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) provided its Chartering Organizations with its final supplemental report on Work Stream 1 recommendations. You can download the full report here The report is the result of extensive work by the CCWG-Accountability’s...