CENTR OVERVIEW OF RECENT ACTIVITIES Peter Van Roste General Manager CENTR Los Angeles 31 October 2007 Overview • About CENTR • Current projects • Future plans 2 What is CENTR? • Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries • Non-profit organisation based in Brussels • Forum for TLD managers – Primarily ccTLDs (but also gTLDs ) 55 Registry members representing 68 TLD operations – European focus (but members from around the world) – European Commission, invited Governments, RIPE and ICANN observers. • One of 4 Regional Associations • More than 37 Million ccTLDs (Sept. 2007) 3 CENTR’s Membership • SK-Nic (.sk) •LITNET NOC Lithuania (.lt) • nic.tr Domain Name Registration (.tr) •Lv Nic (.lv) •TRE (.al) •RESTENA DNS-LU Luxembourg (.lu) • AFGNIC Afghanistan (.af) •NIC .FO (.fo) • STA Andorra (.ad) •NIC Malta Malta (.mt) • ISOC.AM Armenia (.am) •NIC-Mexico Mexico (.mx) • NIC.AC Ascension Is. (.ac), (.io), (.sh) •SIDN Netherlands (.nl) • NIC.AT Austria (.at) •ISOCNZ New Zealand (.nz) • DNS Belgium Belgium (.be) •NORID Norway (.no), Bouvet Is. (.bv), (.sj) • Register.Bulgaria (.bg) •PNINA (.ps) • CIRA Canada (.ca) •NASK Poland (.pl) • CARNet Croatia (.hr) •FCCN Portugal (.pt) • UCY-DNS Cyprus (.cy) •RNC Romania (.ro) • CZ.NIC Czech Republic (.cz) •Ros-NIIROS Russia (.ru) • DENIC Germany (.de) •RED.ES Spain (.es); • FK Hostmaster (.dk) •ARNES Slovenia (.si) • FICORA Finland (.fi) •NIC .SE (.se) • AFNIC France (.fr), Mayotte (.yt), Reunion (.re), St. •SWITCH Switzerland (.ch), Lichtenstein (.li) Pierre & Miquelon (.pm), Wallis & Futuna Is. (.wf ) •Nominet UK United Kingdom (.uk) • GibNet Gibraltar (.gi) •NeuStar United States of America (.us), (.biz) • GR-Hostmaster Greece (.gr) •VeriSign (.com, .net) • Holy See Internet Office (.va) •Afilias (.info) • Island Networks Guernsey (.gg), Jersey (.je) •Public Interest Registry (.org) • CHIP Hungary (.hu) •EURid (.eu) • IEDR Ireland (.ie) •Domicilium Ltd (.im) • IPM Iran (.ir); •IT-NIC Italy (.it) • ISNIC Iceland (.is) •JPRS Japan (.jp) • ISOC-IL Israel (.il) •Domini Punt CAT (.cat) 4 SURVEYS 5 2007 Meeting Themes • General Assemblies – Alternative Dispute Resolution – Marketing and New Services – Security (general/tech/network security/critical infrastructure) – IGF – .IDN •AdminWS – Whois (policy, database accuracy) – Customer relations (benchmarking, customer satisfaction) • Legal and Regulatory WS – Internet Fraud, ADR – Deutsche Adress Dienst (DAD) • Technical WS – IPv6, Internationalised Domain Names –IANA 6 CENTR @ IGF 3 initiatives: • Thematic Workshop – The functioning of the Domain Name System • Best Practice Workshop – One size doesn't fit all: diversity of existing ccTLD management • Exhibition – The DNS system – Registries – Regional organisations 7 Domain Wire 8 Plans for 2008 - Domain Counter - Training Sponsorship - CENTR Exchange - Increased interaction with other ccTLD RO’s - 10th anniversary 9 NEW ! 10 • Much more at http://www.centr.org • Next meetings – L&R meeting: 20 Feb 2008 - Vienna – Administrative Workshop: 20 Feb 2008 - Vienna – General Assembly: 6-7 March 2008 – Brussels – Technical Workshop: 4 May 2008 – Cologne • My contact details peter [at] centr.org +32/495/27/23/06 11.