Domains

Building Towards Tomorrow’s Internet:Fixing IDNs, EAI...

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...

date 2016/03/22

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Policy & Law

Transparent Copyright Law for the Digital Age

eco survey shows: Users are clearly challenged by current law 24% do not or hardly know copyright law, 40% of Germans are uncertain of legalities New services becoming more and more popular: 84% of young users stream music, films or TV series Borders should not play a role in the digital age Over two-thirds...

date 2016/03/22

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Domains

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...

date 2016/03/21

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Domains

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)...

date 2016/03/17

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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...

date 2016/03/11

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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...

date 2016/03/11

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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...

date 2016/03/11

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Datacenter

Podcast: The Digital Industrial Revolution and the Internet...

 Interview with Albrecht Kraas, CTO of Maincubes one, Initiator of the Industry 4.0 initiative IT -Experts - “ITEX”  What exactly is Industry 4.0 – the newest industrial revolution? How does it differ from the Internet of Things? And what makes an object truly smart? With the advent of interconnected...

date 2016/03/10

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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,...

date 2016/03/05

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Domains

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...

date 2016/03/03

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