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The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names
is an expert,
non-party, non-Governmental and non-profit organisation established as a Fund.
The abbreviation of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names is RNIDS.
Public discussion on Cyrillic ccTLD
Belgrade, 3 February 2010 – The discussion about the introduction of the Cyrillic ccTLD was held at the Serbian Chamber of Commerce on 2 February 2010. Members of the RNIDS Managing Board, representatives of the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society, the Informatics Association of Serbia, CONUS, the Serbian Business Registers Agency, the Serbian Chamber of Commerce, Gartner, editors of specialised IT magazines, as well as experts who actively promote the Cyrillic on the Internet attended the meeting. The goal of the meeting was to reach an agreement on the manner of initiating a public discussion on choosing a string that will become the Cyrillic ccTLD which will represent the Republic of Serbia on the Internet.
A working group was formed at the end of the meeting. Based on ideas presented at the Serbian Chamber of Commerce, this group will create a plan of activities for carrying out a public discussion.Conclusion of the Serbian Government regarding Cyrillic ccTLD
Belgrade, 2 February 2010 – At a session held on 14 January 2010, the Government brought a conclusion on the responsibilities of the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society in creating conditions for the allocation of the Cyrillic ccTLD. The conclusion of the Government is available here.RNIDS is preparing to participate in introducing Cyrillic ccTLD
Belgrade, 2 February 2010 – The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names is preparing to introduce the Cyrillic ccTLD.
The procedure that needs to be completed for the Cyrillic ccTLD, which will represent the Republic of Serbia, to appear on the Internet is available at http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/idn-cctld-implementation-plan-16nov09-en.pdf.Four countries passed the first phase of IDN ccTLD registration
Belgrade, 1 February 2010 – From 16 November 2009, when the registration process for IDN ccTLDs began, ICANN has received 16 requests for IDN ccTLDs that represent eight different languages. The requests from four countries – Egypt, The Russian Federation, The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have already passed the first phase – checking technical and linguistic requirements for IDN. If you would like to see how these domains would look like, visit http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion-en.htm.Internationalized Domain Name Country Code Top Level Domain (IDN ccTLD)
Belgrade, 1 February 2010 – The rules that enable the registration of IDN ccTLDs were ratified at the annual meeting of ICANN held on 30 October 2009 in South Korea. IDNs enable the use of a local language and script for the string that will represent a country on the Internet. Countries which apply for localised domains can use only a non-Latin script and their official language. A comprehensive list of conditions that a string needs to fulfil so as to become the IDN ccTLD can be found in The Final Implementation Plan for IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process.Official announcement of ICANN on extending YU domain until 30 March 2010
Belgrade 29 October 2009 – The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) has received an official letter regarding the decision of the ICANN Board of Directors to postpone deactivation of the YU domain until 30 March 2010.
Apart from quoting decisions of the ICANN Board of Directors, it is mentioned in the letter that the procedure of deactivating the YU domain will be initiated on 1 March 2010. At that time a request for removing the YU domain from zone tables in the DNS root servers will be sent to the US Government for authorisation and then to VeriSign for implementation.
At this moment it is not possible to specify the exact date when the YU domain will no longer be visible on the Internet because of a large number of participants in this procedure, some of whom are impossible to be influenced. ICANN intends to effect the removal of the YU domain from the Internet as close as possible to 30 March 2010.
Bearing this fact in mind, the Managing Board of RNIDS will ratify a plan of activities and inform the general public about it in a timely manner.
The letter is available here.
