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October issue of RNIDS News

The 21st issue of the RNIDS News in‑house newsletter contains an overview of events that took place at RNIDS, in the local Internet community and internationally during the third quarter of 2014. In this issue: analyses of the Serbian domain market, news about the introduction of business standards in the RNIDS Office and news on the report by the independent auditor. Alongside the usual column on domain name registration statistics, there is also news about the security and reliability of RNIDS services. There are also reports on DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and the International Summer Academic Course C.O.D.E. ‑ “Create Opportunities, Dream Excitement”. This issue also looks at the international activities of RNIDS at a number of CENTR events. DOWNLOAD: RNIDS News 21 (PDF, 1.1 MB)

07.11.2014.

”Internet Security 3 in 1” panel debate

This year, Serbia is for the second time part of "European Cyber Security Month", organised by ENISA, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security. On 29th October, between 10.30 am and 2 pm, the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS) is organising a panel debate called "Internet security 3 in 1" in the Belgrade Museum of Science and Technology at Skenderbegova 51. "European Cyber Security Month" (ECSM) aims to promote cyber security amongst the public in order to change attitudes towards cyber threats and provide the latest information through education and exchange of good practice. Participants at the "Internet Security 3 in 1" panel debate will try to answer some key questions: what are the main Internet security threats today for ordinary and business users? How should they protect themselves? What are state institutions doing and what is expected of them? Our everyday life is increasingly dependent on data security and the accessibility of Internet services. But do we think about security? Who is processing our data, where are they keeping it, how are they protecting it, what are the main dangers that lurk online and what responsibility do private companies and the state have? If the institutions are not providing us with...

21.10.2014.

July issue of RNIDS News

The 20th jubilee issue of our corporate newsletter contains an overview of the events that took place at RNIDS, in the local Internet community and internationally during the second quarter of 2014. This issue of the RNIDS news contains reports from the summer session of the Conference of Co‑founders of RNIDS and the #DomenUp meeting of members of the local Internet community to mark a new promotional campaign. Alongside the regular section on domain name registration statistics, it also brings information about the dedicated to the introduction of the IPv6 protocol. There are also reports from two panel discussions in this issue: “Lords of the Internet ‑ A Change in Governance” and “How to Become an IT Entrepreneur in Serbia?” In addition, this issue takes a look at RNIDS’ international activities and gives a rundown of what happened at the 14th CENTR Marketing Workshop, and there is also an infographic from the new educational and promotional campaign “Things You Can Do With Your Own Domain...”. DOWNLOAD: RNIDS News 20 (PDF, 1.5 MB)

25.07.2014.

Tesla's Vision of the Internet

On July 10th, Serbia marks the Science Day, a national event dedicated to the great Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla and to science in general. This year, the event has commenced the day before with the opening of the exhibition entitled "Tesla's Vision of the Internet" by Lazar Boskovic, organized by the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry and the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, staged in Belgrade’s gallery "Ozone". The exhibition presents Tesla’s work "World System" from the year 1900, when he presented a 12‑point vision of what is today called the wireless internet, mobile telephony and GPS. In a 1909 statement for the New York Times, quoted by Popular Mechanics magazine in an article titled "Wireless of the future", Nikola Tesla said this, among other things: "It will soon be possible, for instance, for a business man in New York to dictate instructions and have them appear instantly in type in London or elsewhere. He will be able to call up from his desk and talk with any telephone subscriber in the world. It will only be necessary to carry an inexpensive instrument not bigger than a watch, which will enable its bearer to hear anywhere on sea or land for distances of...

03.07.2014.

April issue of RNIDS News

The new 19th issue of our corporate newsletter, RNIDS News, contains an overview of the events that took place at RNIDS, in the local Internet community and the world during the first quarter of 2014. This issue contains reports from the “Cyrillic and the Internet: in Serbia and Around the World” panel discussion, the RNIDS Award given to the Elementarium website, the “Evolution of the Internet: What's Next” forum and RNIDS’ appearance at the Webiz 2.0 conference. The issue also contains the regular columns on domain name registration statistics and news from the ICT sector. There are also reports on RNIDS’ international activities at ICANN and CENTR meetings, and we are also introduced to the new RNIDS Office employees, as well as the new national domain logos and accredited registrars sign. DOWNLOAD: RNIDS News 19 (PDF, 1.1 MB)

28.04.2014.

Panel Debate: “Lords of the Internet ‑ a Change in Governance” Held

On 10th April, the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS), together with the Centre for the Promotion of Science, organized a panel debate themed, “Lords of the Internet ‑ a Change in Governance”. The event was occasioned by the decision by the US Commerce Department in March of this year to initiate a key phase in globalising the Internet governance, whereby it would cease to be controlled by the US. To mark this, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has launched a global consultation process on what form the new “multistakeholder” system of Internet governance should take. The aim of the debate, held at the Centre for the Promotion of Science, was to inform the public and to spur the Serbian Internet community into getting involved in this global process of consultations. Issues of privacy, recent global affairs and possible directions for the future development of the Internet were some of the questions that especially interested participants. Who governs and who supervises? ‘The “multistakeholder” model is the most complicated system of stewardship ever devised by man,’ said Danko Jevtović, director of RNIDS. So why is the USA insisting on just this model as the basis for the new approach to managing the global...

11.04.2014.

Special edition of RNIDS News covering DIDS 2014

We have prepared our traditional special edition of RNIDS News to mark the occasion of our 5th Internet conference, DIDS 2014. In this 18th issue of the RNIDS corporate newsletter you can read a brief overview of the events of 10th March at the Metropol Hotel. It includes an analysis of media reach, an overview of the conference program block‑by‑block, attendee comments, photos and useful links to sites where you can get more detailed information and download video materials. DOWNLOAD: RNIDS News 18 (PDF, 1.31 MB)

28.03.2014.

The Fifth DIDS Conference Held in Belgrade

More than 260 visitors attended the fifth Serbian Internet Domain Day Conference (DIDS), organised by the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) on 10th March 2014 at the Metropol Hotel. DIDS is a conference that is held annually, focused on the development of the Internet globally and in the Serbian .RS and .СРБ domain spaces. This year the slogan was Domainisation, Socialisation, Good Location. The all‑day program saw IT professionals from all sectors of the economy, Internet providers and accredited registrars come together with other local Internet users to hear the experiences of some twenty conference speakers from home and abroad. The first conference block was dedicated to current global Internet trends. The Domainisation catchword referred to the introduction of more than 1000 new generic Internet domains (gTLDs), in multiple languages and scripts: .web, .caйt, .移动, . شبكة, .events, .works, .cool, .vision, .today, .company, .shop, .trend, .place, .guru, .blog, .sex and many others. After Danko Jevtović, the Director of RNIDS gave introductory speech, the panel discussion on how new gTLDs will impact the market and what changes their introduction will bring has started. Michele Neylon, CEO of "Blacknight Internet Solutions", Ulrich Retzlaff, Director of Channel Management at the "Public Interest Registry .ORG",...

13.02.2014.

“Cyrillic and the Internet, in Serbia and around the world” panel debate

On the second anniversary of the .СРБ internet domain, on 27th January 2014, the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS), organised a panel debate called “Cyrillic and the Internet, in Serbia and around the world” at the Belgrade Centre for the Promotion of Science. It is easy to forget in Serbia that the issue of Cyrillic in digital technologies is not just a problem here but one faced by many other countries that use Cyrillic as an official script. Similar problems are also being encountered by other ethnic groups and countries where scripts other than the English alphabet are in use. Participating in the discussion ‑ which was moderated by Tamara Vučenović, journalist and editor of the Digitalne Ikone radio program ‑ were representatives of the academic and professional communities both at home and abroad. First off, Dr Biljana Dojčinović, lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, presented the Knjiženstvo project, which is dedicated to the theory and history of women’s literature in the Serbian language up to 1915. Dr Žarko Mijajlović, full professor of the Belgrade Faculty of Mathematics talked about the work of the National Centre for Digitisalization and its projects such as the Virtual Library and the Digital Catalogue of Monuments of Culture...

28.01.2014.

European Cyber Security Month also in Serbia

The European Union Agency for Network and Information Safety (ENISA) is running its European Cyber Security Month campaign for the second time in a row during October. This year Serbia is joining in, represented by the Register of National Domain Names of Serbia (RNIDS). European Cyber Security Month (ECSM) aims to promote cyber security among the population in order to change attitudes towards cyber threats and to provide the public with the latest information through education and exchange of good practices. RNIDS is organising two events in O3ONE Gallery in Belgrade as part of ECSM ‑ an exhibition and a panel discussion ‑ which are open to all. Firstly, the History of Telecommunications Security ‑ From Smoke Signals to the Internet exhibition will open to the public on October 21st at 19:00, which will in a fun way present the development of long‑distance communication. The exhibition was organised by RNIDS in collaboration with the Diplo Foundation. The author of the exhibition is Lazar Bošković, the illustrator is Vladimir Veljašević and the exhibition design is the work of Orange Studio. From prehistoric times to the present day, it has always been important to keep communications confidential, preserve the original meaning of the message and ensure the transmission is accessible....

15.10.2013.

October issue of RNIDS News

The 16th issue of an internal journal RNIDS News, contains an overview of RNIDS’s activities, in Serbian Internet community and abroad, during the third quarter of 2013. The new edition includes a report on the electoral session of the Conference of Co‑founders of RNIDS, invitation for the selection of consultants for market analysis and designation of the Working Group for Business Development. A regular column on the statistics of registered domain names is supplemented by the survey results of the domain names users habits. It contains the basic information about the new educational and promotional campaign "Register as soon as you think", along with RNIDS’s participation on "European Heritage Days". Column has report about RNIDS’s international activities on ICANN and CENTR meetings and TLDCON conference, as well as news on the initiative of the Chinese national registry for troubleshooting IDN emails. DOWNLOAD: RNIDS News 16 (PDF, 837,8 KB)

07.10.2013.

Invitation to Tender for development of The Software Systems for Internet Domain Name Registration

Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS) Foundation hereby invites all interested suppliers to send their offer for the procurement of The Software Systems for Internet Domain Name Registration. Offers shall be submitted in written form in accordance with the tender documentation and the Rules on the Conduct of the Procurement Procedure, pursuant to an invitation issued for the award of this procurement, procurement number 2/14. Bid is considered timely if it is submitted by 3 p.m. on 1st December 2014. Bids shall be opened by committee, without the presence of bidders. Evaluation of bids shall be conducted in accordance with the criteria and procedure laid down in the tender documentation. After the decision on the award of the procurement contract is made, all bidders shall be notified. All the interested bidders can acquire the tender documentation at by sending the completed “Application form for tender documentation” to: konkurs@rnids.rs.

29.05.2013.