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RNIDS to host SEEDIG 2016

SEEDIG 2016 is a regional meeting on Internet governance in south‑eastern Europe, to be held for the second time on 22nd April 2016, this time in Belgrade. The host of the event will be the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS), with support from international Internet organisations such as the IGF, ICANN, EuroDIG and ISOC, as well as the Council of Europe and the European Commission. As the regional IGF (Internet Governance Forum), the initiative for open and informal South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet governance (SEEDIG) is intended for all stakeholders from the region, bringing together individuals, governments, intergovernmental organisations, civil society organisations, the private sector and technical experts. The meeting is being held as part of the EuroDIG European dialogue on Internet governance, to be held in June 2016 in Brussels. SEEDIG 2016 will bring together numerous interested participants from the Balkan region and neighbouring countries, all of whom will be able to have their say in the topics under discussion, through an open call for proposals via the event website. Though only founded in 2006, RNIDS as one of the two youngest European national Internet registries has in the last couple of years succeeded in establishing partnership with European and global organisations...

23.10.2015.

Multi‑stakeholder Internet governance model: Together we are stronger

When it was first created, the Internet was used by a limited circle of people in the academic community. By the end of this year, however, according to UN figures, 43.3% of the world population will be online ‑ around 3.2 billion people. With the growth in users, trust in the Internet has suffered, and with the rise of large companies trading in the personal data of their users, and abusing their trust in other ways, the need has arisen for more robust regulation. When the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was founded 15 years ago, national governments took a close interest in Internet governance. In the meantime, companies, associations and organisations have also become involved in this area, as well as civil society. The Internet, in a way, began to regulate itself, said Vladimir Radunović, director of the cyber‑security and e‑diplomacy programme at the DiploFoundation, at a public debate today called “More players, more interests, more Internet!”, organised by the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS). “There are numerous stakeholders involved in governing the Internet today: the private companies that build the networks and develop the software, the national governments that pass the laws regulating the Internet and the billions of...

21.10.2015.

Registration of .RS and .СРБ domains without a JMBG

As of 19th October it is now possible to register .RS and .СРБ domains without giving the JMBG (citizen’s ID number) of the registrant (domain user), or the administrative or technical contact, which was previously compulsory. This is the result of changes to the general terms and conditions for the registration of national Internet domain names, approved at the session of the Conference of Co‑founders of the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) held 19th September. Existing JMBGs will remain in the database but users will be able to remove them. Users who want to can still give their JMBG along with the other domain registration data, which might be helpful in establishing their identity if, for example, they want to transfer ownership of the domain to someone else. This change to the registration rules was made at the initiative of and in cooperatino with the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, who published his own press release (Serbian only) in connection with this decision. RNIDS takes particular care to protect personal data and, accordingly, steps were taken to review the files in the Central Data File Register maintained by the Commissioner in accordance with the Law on...

19.10.2015.

Panel debate ‑ Mobile Security in Serbia!

This year, Serbia was, during October, for the third time part of European Cyber Security Month, organised by ENISA, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security. The Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) organised a panel debate titled Mobile Safety in Serbia, held on 15th October in the Belgrade Cultural Centre’s ArtGet Gallery. Panel members were experts from all areas that are of significance to Internet security, who addressed a variety of questions ‑ what are the main threats to Internet security for ordinary and business users, how to protect ourselves, what are state institutions doing and what is expected of them and whether and how much we think about security, as well as who handles our data, where they keep it and what the main dangers are that we face online. In the first block, titled Security of mobile networks and applications, the participants looked at the issues surrounding software security and application privacy from a variety of points of view. “Unfortunately, early research suggests that probably most applications in use today do not take nearly enough care over the security and privacy of their users. They have numerous weaknesses and can be abused by malicious third parties, often remotely, without...

16.10.2015.

Marking European Cyber Security Month in October

During October, the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) is organising a series of talks and a panel debate as part of European Cyber Security Month, initiated by ENISA, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security. This is the third time RNIDS is taking part in this event, which will be marked this year by a series of events in October. All the events will be held in Belgrade and entry is free to all interested parties. 13th October Cyber‑threats and web security ‑ talk at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering (Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 73), room no. 62 ‑ 5 pm to 7 pm. On personal web security, malicious software, social engineering and ways to protect yourself and improve in the area of cyber‑security. Speakers: Igor Franc, senior lecturer at Metropolitan University Jovan Šikanja, security administrator at the company Limundo Aleksandar Kostadinović, systems administrator at RNIDS 15th October: panel debate ‑ Mobile Safety in Serbia ArtGet Gallery of the Belgrade Cultural Centre (Knez Mihailova 6/I) ‑ 11 am to 3 pm. First block: Mobile Network and Application Security: Zoran Milovanović, director of the independent fraud protection sector, Telekom Srbija Janez Križan, Safety, Security and Compliance Manager, Vip Mobile & Si.mobil Dragan Pleskonjić, Senior Director of Application Information Security, International Game Technology Vladan Joler, Director, Share Foundation Second block: New...

08.10.2015.

Big Data and Cyber Security event

The Faculty of Security Studies was the venue on 25th September for an open lecture titled Big Data and Cyber‑Security. The Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) and the US Embassy organised the talk in partnership with the Faculty of Security Studies, the ETF (Faculty of Electrical Engineering) Students’ Union and the PMF (Faculty of Sciences) Students’ Union. Around 40 students, IT professionals and interested members of the public had a chance to hear about the concept of Big Data and learn about its importance for both the private and public sector and how it can help combat modern cyber threats. Big Data is a term used to indicate large quantities of unprocessed and unstructured digital data derived from different sources, which cannot be analysed using traditional techniques and tools. In order to utilise, store and manage it, modern, specialised software is needed. This was the topic of the talk by Branko Primetica, eGlobalTech Vice President who emphasized that the three main characteristics of large collections of data are: volume, velocity and their variety. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things, which allows the interconnection of things, i.e. physical objects, via the Internet, the Big Data concept has taken on special...

30.09.2015.

48th CENTR Legal and Regulatory Workshop in Belgrade

On 24th and 25th September at the Zira Hotel in Belgrade RNIDS (the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation) organised the 48th CENTR Legal and Regulatory Workshop, bringing together 23 participants from 16 national registries, as well as delegates from the Council of European National Top‑Level Domain Registries (CENTR). In addition to European registries, the Canadian national registry was also represented at the meeting. The event was opened by Danko Jevtović, RNIDS CEO, and one of the major topics of the gathering was supervision of accredited registrars and measures to be taken in the event of breaches of contract, a topic spoken on by the representative of the Canadian registry. The delegate from the Polish registry spoke about their experiences regarding recent improvements to registration policies and practice. In addition to topics directly relating to domain name registration policies, the representatives of CENTR talked about possible changes to regulations at the European level relating to expansion of the responsibilities of national Internet registries, as well as about the NIS Directive, the importance of ENISA and the role of registries in resolving security incidents. The host, Dejan Đukić, General and Legal Affairs sector manager at RNIDS, gave participants a brief run‑down of the data...

30.09.2015.

New leadership of the RNIDS Conference of Co‑founders

The electoral session of the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) was held on 19th September at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Belgrade. The attending authorised representatives of 58 Co‑founders elected Zoran Buhavac as chair, and Ivan Minić as vice‑chair of the Conference of Co‑founders of RNIDS, for two‑year terms. Zoran Buhavac was chair and deputy chair of the RNIDS Board of Governors between 2009 and 2013, and has also been a member of various working groups since 2008. He is employed in marketing and Internet service sales in the company Gama Electronics and their representative at the Conference. Ivan Minić is the authorised representative of “Burek.com” from Belgrade, and is the founder and director of this company. He has been involved in design and development for more than 10 years, as well as providing consulting services in Internet marketing, e‑commerce and other related areas. RNIDS is a professional, non‑party, non‑governmental, not‑for‑profit organisation, founded by the Internet community in Serbia in order to manage the Serbian national .RS and .СРБ Internet domains. The Conference of Co‑founders is a RNIDS body comprising the authorised representatives of all co‑founders. From among their number they elect a chair and deputy chair for a two‑year...

22.09.2015.

New RNIDS website

The Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) has launched the third version of its site as it keeps its Internet presence in step with trends and with the best practices of national Internet registries. At prod.rnids.beeloc.rs and прод.рнидс.итцентар.срб visitors can access 30% more content than before, with a clearer structure and new mobile‑friendly site design. The new site means that Internet users in Serbia can access a range of information on Internet domains not available elsewhere, more quickly and more easily. A major new feature on the new RNIDS site is the improved WHOIS service for the national .RS and .СРБ domains, which is hosted at prod.rnids.beeloc.rs/whois and serves information on registered domain names in HTML, PDF or basic TXT form. Detailed searching of the RNIDS document repository is now possible, categorised by the RNIDS body that issued the document, by its topic and by the content of the PDF file itself. Different versions of the same document can also be browsed. The new content on the site includes, in particular, a section on Internet governance, which gives an overview of the major organisations involved, in Serbia and internationally. This is the first time a comprehensive overview has been given of...

16.09.2015.

I Know You From the Net ‑ promotional and educational campaign

As in previous years, this autumn the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) is launching its traditional promotional and educational campaign for Internet users in Serbia. The topic of this year's campaign, titled "Znamo se sa Neta" (I Know You From the Net), is business and personal cyber‑identity, aimed at sole traders and individuals who need to publicise their work or themselves on the Internet. The campaign has been inspired by the needs of the modern entrepreneur in Serbia, the small business owner registered as a sole trader, who is regarded in law and by the business environment as a “private individual with a rubber stamp”, that is, an individual for whom business and life, company and family, official and private are constantly interwoven. The sole trader is in a constant state of identity limbo, with a very fine, sometimes non‑existent line between his or her business identity as a company and his or her personal identity as a citizen, in terms of ownership, and before the law. Today, when cyber‑identity via a presence on the Internet is also of great importance, he needs to manage his profile in the virtual world both as a businessman and as an individual. This is why...

16.09.2015.

RNIDS meets with staff of US Embassy in Serbia

A delegation from the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) was invited for a meeting with the Economic Section of the US Embassy in Serbia on 18th August. Attending on behalf of RNIDS were Dušan Stojičević, Chair of the Board of Governors, Danko Jevtović, director, and Slobodan Marković, advisor for ICT policy and Internet community relations. Representing the Embassy were Jeremy Long, the Embassy's Acting Economic Counselor, Zorica Mihajlović, Senior Commercial Specialist and Dejan Gajić, Economic Assistant. The meeting was a chance to talk about topics of common interest in the area of telecommunications, in particular about cyber‑security, the promotion of ICT and the multi‑stakeholder model of Internet governance ‑ which was an issue specially emphasised by the Embassy. The US government is committed to the multi‑stakeholder model for the administration of critical Internet resources, which it demonstrated back in 1998 when it supported the idea of the creation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This non‑profit organisation, based in California, manages the global DNS system, and takes its decisions through a process that involves dialogue amongst a large number of different stakeholders around the world who include national and generic domain name registries, Internet and hosting providers,...

24.08.2015.

"RNIDS INFO" ‑ July edition

Issue 25 of the RNIDS INFO internal newsletter brings an overview of events at RNIDS and in the local and global Internet community in the second quarter of 2015. Two major events marked this quarter: the “Pitajte.RS” educational program held on Kopaonik and the international SEE4 ‑ RIPE NCC, organized in Belgrade. Statistics about the registration of .RS and .СРБ domains from April to June 2015 are available, as well as the news about the resolution of two domain name registration disputes and the information about the new Whois service at domen.rs/whois and the list of accredited registrars available at: domen.rs/registry. A regular session of the RNIDS Conference of Co‑founders was held while the activities on supporting the RSNOG community were continued. RNIDS also helped in the organization of the “Intellectual Property and the Internet” Conference, which was held at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. The RNIDS office has submitted a three‑year report to the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications as part of the 2010 Cooperation Agreement. Within the international activities in this quarter, RNIDS representative participated in numerous global and European events. DOWNLOAD: RNIDS INFO No 25 (PDF 1.39 MB)

31.07.2015.