Three eco member companies obtain Data Retention Waivers from ICANN Accreditation contracts that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as a company enters into with registrars do not always comply in all points with the legal requirements of the country where the registrar has their headquarters...

Background The Internet, it seems, is different. Listen to the German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier explain why at the opening of EuroDIG 2014, hosted by eco in Berlin in June. The European Dialog on Internet Governance ran under the slogan of “Digital Society at stake – Europe and the future of the Internet”....

Branchenverband verleiht eco Internet Award 2014 Die Branchenbesten des Jahres stehen fest: Vor rund 400 Gästen hat eco – Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft e. V. im feierlichen Rahmen die diesjährigen Preisträger mit dem eco Internet Award ausgezeichnet. Zusätzlich wurde gemeinsam mit dem Bundesverband Deutsche...

Die Verleihung der eco Internet Awards im Video Sehen Sie, wie die Branchenbesten des Jahres im feierlichen Rahmen mit dem eco Internet Award ausgezeichnet werden. Die Gewinner in der Übersicht. #ecoGala

Who should control the Internet? In the wake of the NSA surveillance scandal, the European Commission in February proposed key reforms to the way the Internet is run. These include the globalization of ICANN - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - the strengthening of the Internet Governance Forum,...

Public participation in the agenda setting on the EuroDIG wiki: Anyone can participate! eco survey: One third of all Internet users see the responsibility for Internet Governance as also residing with themselves personally eco Guidelines paper calls for the expansion of established Internet Governance structures and the...

Jetzt in der Kategorie Domains & DNS bewerben Bereits zum vierzehnten Mal vergibt eco – Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft e. V. dieses Jahr die Internet Awards. Mit der Auszeichnung ehrt der größteInternetwirtschaftsverband Europas besonders innovative Unternehmen mit herausragenden Ideen für die Internetwirtschaft....

Registered Trademarks should be registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse Free consultation opportunity on 4 March from 10am until midday via telephone, email, twitter and Facebook Sunrise – this is the name of the phase during which trademark owners can secure domain endings before they are made available to the...

Zahlreiche weitere geoTLDs in den Startlöchern eco rät: Schnell Wunschadresse mehrfach vormerken lassen Das Internet wird heute ein Stück bunter, denn die regiodot GmbH kann den Markteintritt der neuen Domain-Endung .ruhr feiern. „Mit .ruhr geht die erste einer Reihe deutscher Top Level Domains mit geografischem...

Numerous further geoTLDs at the starting gates eco advises: Reserve desired address quickly and more than once The Internet became a bit more colorful today, with regiodot GmbH celebrating the launch of the new domain ending .ruhr, the first of the new domain endings with geographical reference to cities or regions. ...

Last week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the delegation and technical availability of the first new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). These four are all non-Latin strings: شبكة (Arabic for “Web/Network"), онлайн (Russian for “online″), сайт (Russian for ″Site″)...

Benefits At newdomains 2013 experts will present important changes to the Top-Level Domain structure and their subsequent risks and opportunities. Trademark owners: - Learn how to protect your trademark in a world of more than 1,000 new domain extensions. TLD applicants: - Strengthen your competence in marketing strategies. -...

Study from eco – Association of the German Internet Industry shows: Country-specific domain registrations will not reduce as a result of the new gTLDs Events like newdomains.org on 27 – 28 October in Munich show the importance the new gTLDs already have Lawyer Thomas Rickert, Leader of the Competence Group Names...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, has published procedures under which domain registrars in countries with consumer friendly privacy legislation can apply for waivers to be exempt from compliance with the Data Retention Specification, DRS. The standard DRS process for registering new domains...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Nominating Committee has announced their decisions for nine leadership positions. The selectees reflect a variety of cultural and geographical backgrounds, and were chosen unanimously from a field of over 100 candidates. Lawyer Thomas Rickert, who represents...

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, published a paper on the use of dotless domains. Using dotless domains would be technically possible, but several issues remain to be solved, the organization says. The idea of dotless domains arose in light of the introduction of new Top Level Domains, TLDs....

At the opening ceremony of the 47th meeting of the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which ran from 14th to 18th July 2013 in Durban, the first four Registry Agreements for new gTLDs were signed with the applicants. In addition, CEO Fadi Chehadé announced a five-year strategy which is to...