Policy & Law

Safe Harbor: eco Calls for Swift and Practicable New Agreement

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...

date 2015/10/06

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Policy & Law

New eco Guidelines on Conditions for Successful European...

The European Union has been discussing and negotiating a new, contemporary and consistent data protection law for the European Union since 2012. eco welcomes this approach to modernizing the European data protection law. It provides the opportunity to eradicate the implementation and enforcement differences of the existing...

date 2015/09/29

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Domains

ICANN and UASG Announce Results of Universal Acceptance...

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...

date 2015/09/18

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Vorstellung: CISCO

Domains

New gTLD Registrations Surpass 7.3 Million Registrations

Analyzing growth rates & business models Nineteen months since new gTLDs were made available to the public, total registrations now exceed 7.3 million according to ntldstats.com while other registration stats tracking sites show 6.9 million. Why the 400,000 difference? Ntldstats.com uses the registration status of names...

date 2015/09/14

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Policy & Law

eco Summer Party: The Internet industry and Internet community...

The Who's Who of the Internet sector met at the eco Summer Party again this year, this time in the Berlin Kalkscheune on 27 August 2015. Around 300 guests from German Ministries, the Parliament, the Internet industry, journalists and the Internet community joined eco to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the Internet...

date 2015/09/02

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Domains

Who Should Control the Internet – Have Your Say!

Reform of Internet Administration – Current Status, Explanation, and A Request for Input Thomas Rickert, Leader of the eco Names and Numbers Forum, is actively involved in the reform process which will decide who will have supervision and control over the Internet in the future. In this open letter, he asks for your...

date 2015/08/31

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Datacenter

Will Easy Encryption Fix the Internet?

 An article from Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open Xchange  Internet services providers have some thinking to do when it comes to the topic of encryption. Does encryption help you to build your business or does its complexity drive customers away? There’s an increasing awareness that encryption is hugely important,...

date 2015/08/28

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Domains

ICANN Webinars: ICG & CCWG

Keep up-to-date on the developments of the IANA Stewardship Transition and ICANN Accountability Webinar 1: CCWG on Enhancing ICANN Accountability 7 August 2015 07:00 - 09:00 UTC Your host: Thomas Rickert, eco Names & Numbers Forum Connect: https://icann.adobeconnect.com/si-webinar/ Webinar 2: IANA Stewardship Transition...

date 2015/08/11

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Policy & Law

European Information Security: eco Warns Against Inclusion...

Europe-wide harmonization in the areas of critical infrastructure is welcome Avoid fragmentation and differences in implementation Scope should concentrate on actual critical infrastructure The legislative process for a European Directive for Network and Information Security (NIS Directive) is soon to be concluded....

date 2015/08/05

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Policy & Law

Legal Certainty for Access Providers: No Liability for Third-Party...

The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) yesterday debated whether access providers should in future block websites containing illegal content from third parties. “Until now, the legal situation has been that the provider was generally not liable for legal infringements on the Internet”, says eco Director of Policy...

date 2015/07/31

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