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At the recent Annual General Assembly held in Salzburg, CENTR elected 3 new Board members to replace outgoing members Annebeth B. Lange, Mathieu Weill and Juhani Juselius. 

The 3 newly elected Board Members are; Lise Fuhr (.dk), Giovanni Seppia (.eu) and Richard Wein (.at). 

In Salzburg the term of Mathieu Weill as Chair came to and end and Peter Vergote (.be) was elected as new Chairman of the Board. Richard Wein (.at) was appointed as Treasurer. 

CENTR extends a sincere thank-you to the outgoing Board Members for their dedication, time and efforts. CENTR further congratulates the newly elected Board members and wishes them all great success in their new positions.

More on the Board of Directors here

At the recent CENTR Annual General Assembly held in Salzburg, the Estonian Registry (.ee), Estonian Internet Foundation, was unanimously accepted as the 51^st CENTR Full Member. 

“CENTR provides Estonia with an opportunity to participate in the development of the Internet on the international level,” said Marek-Andres Kauts, Chairman of the Board of the Estonian Internet Foundation.

CENTR congratulates and welcomes the new member and looks forward to their contributions and co-operation.

EX.ua was one of the most popular websites in Ukraine.

Prosecutors ordered the domain registrar to close access to ex.ua, while police confiscated 200 servers that belong to the company that provides file-sharing service.  The Interior Ministry said the site had been under criminal investigation for copyright violation since July. 

That caused big cyber attack. Since Feb. 1 official websites started going down:

the official websites of President Viktor Yanukovych, the Security Service of Ukraine, the National Bank of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers and the ruling Party of Regions.

Although file-sharing service still doesn't work, Feb 2 the investigation sorted out that placement on the portal of unlicensed products may not be the reason for blocking the domain name. Law enforcers asked the domain registrar to unblock the domain name ex.ua and renew access to the website.

More information is at http://www.kyivpost.com/news/business/bus_general/detail/121754/

As of 27 January website owners in Serbia and the Diaspora can register the Cyrillic domain .СРБ as well. During the first six months, only the owners of existing or newly registered .RS domain names will be eligible to register .СРБ domain names at a special price. After this period, anyone will be able to register Cyrillic domain names, regardless of whether they have a specific .RS domain name or not.
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Two new reports have been published from .SE available (in English); one on reachability online and .se’s health status, and the other one about network neutrality.

Report: Healthcheck 2011 - Reachability

Report: Healthcheck 2011 - Network Neutrality

As part of the SIRikt Festival, on 21 March 2012, Hotel Kompas in Kranjska Gora will host the ARNES 2012 Conference, the main theme of which will be “20 YEARS OF THE INTERNET OF PEOPLE”. ARNES celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2012.

DNS.be again targets Belgian professions and intellectuals to convince them that having a presence online is extremely important. It is the next stage in the information campaign started last Autumn.
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DENIC hosts and kindly invites attendees to join the 9th Domain pulse specialist conference, which will take place on 13 and 14 February 2012 in Hamburg, Germany.

EURid General Manager Mr Van Wesemael noted that considering the Euro crisis and current economic situation, .eu’s growth clearly demonstrates that the European image is still positive among businesses, who are the largest category of .eu domain name holders.

At the meeting, Andrey Kolesnikov, the CC’s CEO, elaborated on the theme of the top-level domain .ДЕТИ. As a reminder, the Coordination Center is considering an initiative to apply for the respective domain under the New gTLD program. According to A. Kolesnikov, domain .ДЕТИ will be an integrated registry with the focus on children. The mission of the domain is to promote and popularize websites for children and teenagers.

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