Tag Archives: european union

June, 2009

• 29 June

  .eu domains to be available in Cyrillic and Greek

  In an effort to encourage greater adoption of the .eu top-level domain (TLD), the European Commission will start allowing non-latin characters to be used in domain registration. In the past, only “a to z” and “0 to 9” characters were allowed. European states that will benefit greatly from this move …

May, 2009

• 12 May

  EC: Invest in a green, sustainable Internet infrastructure

  European Commissioner Viviane Reding said this week that EU members must “continue to invest in internet infrastructure despite the global recession, and use the technology to help develop a more sustainable society.” According to Reding, improving the infrastructure of the Internet is not just about IT and business. It can …
• 4 May

  Who Should Control ICANN and the Internet?

  In her weekly video message posted today, Viviane Reding, the European Union Commissioner for Information Society and Media, discussed the future of the Internet and ICANN. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, is a private non-profit created more than a decade ago in the United States to …
• 4 May

  EU calls on Obama to give up Internet oversight

  The European Union has called on U.S. President Barack Obama to turn over U.S. oversight of the Internet to a larger body of nations. Currently, governance and security of the Internet rests solely with the non-profit organisation Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN. The EU Commissioner, Viviane …