The Swedish ccTLD manager IIS has decided to offload its registrar business, .SE Direkt. .SE Direkt, which has almost 122,000 .se domain names under management with 87,000 customers (almost 67,000 corporate and 21,000 private individual customers), sells domain names but doesn’t offer additional services such as webhosting, which most registrars offer these days as a…
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ICANN: Data Protection/Privacy Update Webinar – 8 October
ICANN today [27 Sep] announced that it will hold a webinar on 8 October 2018 from 15:00 to 16:00 UTC to provide an update on recent ICANN data protection and privacy activities related to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To facilitate global participation, interpretation services will be available in Arabic, Chinese, French,…
Austria’s Internet Celebrating Combined 80th Birthday
Austria’s internet is celebrating a combined number of birthdays in 2018, all adding up to an 80th birthday celebration: 10 years of CERT.at, 20 years of Stopline, 20 years of nic.at and 30 years of .at! In the latest nic//report, the regular report on .at domain name issues, they chart the 30 years of .at.…
ICANN Approves Plans To Change DNS’s Cryptographic Keys For First Time
After 2 delays, ICANN is now set to change of the cryptographic key that helps protect the Domain Name System (DNS) – the Internet’s address book – on 11 October. During a 16 September meeting in Belgium, the ICANN Board passed a resolution, with a minority dissent, directing to proceed with plans to change or…
IEDR Report Highlights Barriers to Irish SMEs Getting Online
IE Domain Registry’s SME Digital Health Index, published this week, found 2 of the biggest barriers to SMEs doing more online are a lack of time (with 24% reporting as a barrier) and a lack of the technical skills (11%) perceived as necessary to build a website, integrate e-commerce, or make use of productivity or…