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Domains made available from lists of domains reserved for needs of Republic of Serbia and new mini‑mini land rush

Domains that have been reserved until now for the needs of Republic bodies, which they are no longer interested in, will be made available according to the land rush procedure from May 18th, 2009 at noon. A new List of domains reserved until April 15th, 2010 for the needs of the Republic of Serbia and a List of domains reserved for the needs of cities and municipalities of the Republic of Serbia can be found here. Lists of domains that were reserved for the needs of the Republic of Serbia from March 10th 2008 tо April 15th 2009 are available here.

15.04.2009.

Session of RNIDS Assembly

A regular annual Assembly session of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) will be held on Saturday, February 28th, 2009 at the Holiday Inn hotel in Belgrade. Assembly members will discuss the balance sheet of RNIDS and ratify the operational and financial plans for 2009. They will also discuss a proposal of the working group for documentation and elect new members of the Managing Board. The session will begin at 11 o'clock.

02.03.2009.

Renewal of .yu domain registration

Existing .yu domains which are not renewed until March 2nd, 2009 will be deactivated and will stop functioning on the Internet. The additional period for renewing .yu domains will begin on March 3rd 2009 and end on April 30th 2009. If a .yu domain is renewed within this period, the domain will be reactivated on the Internet. Remaining .yu domains, which are not renewed until April 30th, will be permanently deleted from the Register on May 4th, 2009. Additional information can be found here.

20.02.2009.

New director of RNIDS

At a meeting held on January 13th, 2009, the Managing Board of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names appointed a new director of RNIDS, Zoran Perović, the recent Director of Wholesale and Multimedia in Telekom Srbija. Zoran Perović graduated from the School of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, Department of Telecommunications. He finished a training for management and business relations. Mr. Perović was employed in the leading positions in several local companies and he spent some time in Ericsson, Spain. He speaks English and German. He is married, with two kids. Until now, activities of the Acting Director of RNIDS were successfully performed by Ms. Mirjana Tasić, one of the major advocates and key founders of RNIDS.

14.01.2009.

Invitation to municipalities to register domains

The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) and the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities have initiated a joint public campaign to remind more than a hundred municipalities to register their .rs domains. We have invited 36 registrars to contact in the days to come administrations in towns and municipalities that have still not registered .rs domains and ask them to do so in due date. Enclosed with a letter to registrars is a list of municipalities without the new .rs domain. Two organisations intend to invite authorities through media to perform this significant task as soon as possible. This will make it simple for local self‑governments to present themselves online. Otherwise, somebody else may rent their domain and use it for their own purposes.

24.12.2008.

Special session of RNIDS Assembly held

The special session of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) Assembly was held on December 7th, 2008 at the Holiday Inn hotel in Belgrade. During the ceremony, registrars received licenses‑certificates. Apropos 35 years of existence of the Serbian Association of IT Experts, its President Nikola Marković handed over a Thank You Letter to the President of the Managing Board of RNIDS, Sima Ivaneža. After an introduction of nominees, the Assembly elected two new members of the RNIDS Managing Board through secret ballot ‑ Jelena Opačić from EUnet and Nenad Orlić from Madnett, who obtained a majority of the votes of those present. After several hours of the discussion, the Assembly ratified reports of the Managing Board and the Acting Director of RNIDS, as well as a rough financial plan for 2009, the report of the working group for transparency of operations, and amendments and additions to legal regulations of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names. It was agreed that a working group should be established to propose the liberalisation of rules defining domain registration. The Assembly was attended and greeted by Jovan Radunović, PhD, the President of the Managing Board of RATEL, Jelena Jovanović from the Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Nikola...

08.12.2008.

Public Debate

Apropos the session of RNIDS Assembly scheduled for December 7th, 2008, RNIDS opens a public debate on regulations that should be brought by RNIDS Assembly. Please, draft your objections and suggestions clearly and state the exact name of the regulation and article the modification or amendment of which you propose. The deadline for submitting your objections and suggestions is November 24th, 2008. Please, email your objections and suggestions to javnarasprava@rnids.rs. All proposals received within the specified time period will be reviewed by the Working body for carrying out a public debate on regulations of RNIDS, established by the Managing Board.

17.11.2008.

.AC.RS domain delegated to Academic Network

The Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society of Serbia informed RNIDS that the management of the .ac.rs address space should be left to the Conference of the Universities of Serbia (Konus) which should determine conditions for domain registration for all accredited high‑education institutions ‑ faculties and institutes. The Conference of the Universities of Serbia has already decided that the University of Belgrade, representing the Academic Network from its establishment, is the legal entity to which this task should be entrusted. The Conference of the Universities of Serbia immeditately required that the procedure of migrating from the existing .ac.yu to the new .ac.rs domain should be prepared and carried out for all legal entities (31 faculties and institutes), without any limitations. Until the end of the year, the Accademic Network of Serbia must define rules and submit them to Konus for ratification.

06.11.2008.

Competition for Director of RNIDS now open

RNIDS announced an open competition for the DIRECTOR of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names which will be active from November 4th, 2008 until November 21st, 2008. Additional information about the competition can be found here.

04.11.2008.

Farewell to .yu domain, .yu domain extension for the interested

For all companies and associations which have not yet migrated to the .rs domain and still use the .yu domain, the additional registration period will last from November 3rd 2008 until March 2nd 2009. After that period, unrenewed .yu domains will stop functioning on the Internet. That, however, is not all: the additional term for renewing .yu domains will begin on March 3rd, 2009 and end on April 30th, 2009. Those who renew their domains, will reanimate their Websites on the Internet; remaining .yu domains, which are not renewed by that date, will be permanently deleted from the register on May 4th, 2009. Moreover, maintaining the .yu register of domain names, as well as providing information on .yu domains on the Internet will end on September 30th, 2009, regardless of the renewal date. On the very day, .yu domains will stop functioning on the Internet for good! Unless a company or an association renews the registration of www.companyname.co.yu until March 2nd, 2009, its Website and e‑mail will stop functioning on the Internet as of this date. In case the company decides to renew the registration of www.companyname.co.yu until April 30th, 2009, its Website and e‑mail will be reactivated on the Internet until the last day of using the .yu domain, i.e....

31.10.2008.

RNIDS ‑ member of CENTR

On October 3rd, 2008, at the 37th General Assembly of CENTR, i.e. the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries, the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) became a full member. By doing this, it became its 48th member. We sincerely believe that we will serve as an example to other organisations and associations as well as our country itself to do the same. For more details, please visit: www.centr.org/main/facetedBrowser/library?options=fts&activeNavPath=lib&ftsq=rnids

06.10.2008.

40,000th .rs domain registered

The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) would like to inform the public that the 40.000th .rs domain (е‑business.co.rs) was registered in Kovin, 15 days after the registration of the 35.000th one. In the meantime, RNIDS organised a mini land rush, the result being expected, though not so fast. We believe that such a growth of registered domains means a continuous growth of serious content on the Internet, i.e. the more interesting content of the local Internet for all its users, as well as a growth in the number of Internet users and online content, which will bring us closer to the rest of the world. RNIDS expects this tempo to continue and the 45.000th .rs domain to be registered soon.

29.09.2008.