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...

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)...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) is a community initiative that’s supported by ICANN with a goal of addressing Universal Acceptance – the idea that all domain names work equally well. EAI (Email Address Internationalization) is an important part of the UASG’s work. Our mission is to encourage wide implementation...

Looking Back: The four most important European digital policy developments in 2015 2015 was a year of change and turmoil in European network and Internet policy. eco – Association of the Internet Industry e. V. looks back at the four most important network policy developments and decisions at the European level. “2015...

TV1.EU testimonial in EURid campaign We are happy to see two eco members from different internet branches cross-promoting each other. The leading streaming expert TV1 from Munich is using a .eu domain – the company´s CEO Michael Westphal explains why.

Two webinars on Wednesday, 2 December 2015 The CCWG-Accountability offers its Draft Proposal for enhancements to ICANN accountability that have been identified as essential to happen or be committed to before the IANA Stewardship Transition takes place (Work Stream 1). The six Chartering Organizations for the CCWG-Accountability...

As a .cloud Pioneer, ePages leverages one of the world’s first .cloud web identities ePages (www.epages.com), a leading international provider of online , shop software, today launched a new partner portal – www.epages.cloud – as a new primary touchpoint and content hub for its global network of resellers. As one...

The Community gets closer to a final vision of the future of coordinating the Internet Around 2,000 participants from almost 130 countries met in Dublin for the 54th ICANN Meeting in October. The topic of ICANN accountability dominated the conference in the Irish capital. The three technical communities put forward their...

Technical and Legal Barriers to Implementation With the German Federal Government's decision to reintroduce Blanket Data Retention, questions have arisen as to the constitutionality of the law and the practicability of implementing it. eco explored the issues in a recent "Politikbrief" newsletter. Here, we look at a few...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has today declared the Safe-Harbor Agreement for the exchange of data between the USA and the EU to be invalid. The EU Commission, according to the ruling, does not have the competence to limit the powers of the national data protection supervisory authorities through the agreement. With...

ICANN, in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) announced the availability of a new report: An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance. Universal Acceptance (UA) is the concept of removing all technical barriers that might hinder a user from accessing any name in any top-level domain (TLD) from...