For this year‘s geoTLD offsite meeting the Galician top-level domain operator Asociación PuntoGal generously invited the geoTLD.group to Santiago de Compostela at the north-western tip of Spain. A detailed summary of the meeting that was held from...
A study conducted by the Oxford Information Labs in collaboration with Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR), finds that the role of country and regional TLDs is imperative in supporting diversity in global online linguistic. The study was...
A geoTLD.group survey (39 respondents of which 24 from within the EU) collected information on current WHOIS practices and preparations for the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The survey results can be summarized as follows: All EU-based geoTLD...
I always geek out a little when I see something ICANN-related breaking out into the real world, like when the bus-stop display has borked, and its LAN is vainly searching for an IP number so it can reboot. Or the ICANN Paris meeting back in 2008 when the board gave...
At the recent 61th meeting of ICANN in San Juan (Puerto Rico) the number one topic was the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that will be effective from 25 May 2018. Several sessions with governmental representatives dominated the seven days...
geoTLD group chair Sebastien Ducos and vice-chair Dirk Krischenowski attended the public consultation of the brand new GDPR Domain Industry Playbook by eco (Association of the Internet Industry) at the representation of the German federal state Lower Saxony to the...
