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The importance of having your own domain name in e‑commerce

“e‑Commerce ‑ a chance you should not miss” was the name of an online conference held 3rd December, organised by the USAID Cooperation for Growth Project, in cooperation with the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce, the E‑Commerce Association of Serbia and the Serbian Chamber of Commerce Association of Electronic Communications and Information Society. The seminar was primarily aimed at people from micro‑enterprises for whom online commerce via the Internet is an opportunity both to grow and to survive. It brought together prominent experts in the field of e‑commerce, and one of the talks was delivered by Predrag Milićević, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS). Milićević noted that the pandemic had forced many business people to move into the Internet environment in order to continue doing business, and had steered them towards the seemingly quickest and simplest solutions, which meant the social networks had taken priority of place. However, he stressed, basing one’s online business solely on the social networks brought many dangers with it ‑ the e‑seller ran the risk of losing their e‑store and thus their customers and their entire business if the network ever shut them down ‑ which could often happen for reasons unclear. He said that for...

04.12.2020.

Digital revolution 4.0 ‑ from the legal standpoint

The second conference to be organised jointly by the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) and Union University Faculty of Law was held online 3rd December under the slogan “Digital Revolution 4.0: through theory and practice”. The conference was opened by Prof. Nebojša Šarkić, PhD, Dean of the Union University Faculty of Law, who gave an introduction to the topic of the event ‑ the connection between law, information technologies and new and contemporary solutions. He referred to the fact that the introduction of new solutions brought with it certain difficulties from the legal and other aspects. The conference would therefore try to throw light on these difficulties and issues both from the theoretical and the practical standpoint. Dejan Đukić, director of the RNIDS Foundation, spoke on a very current topic, that of the position of domain registries with respect to illegal content online. He stressed the significance of this subject given that illegal content on the Internet was expanding as the Internet itself grew at an incredible rate. The audience got to hear about an important set of regulations that were being worked on at the European level ‑ the DSA (Digital Service Act) ‑ whereby the law would seek to place responsibility for online content...

04.12.2020.

“See you on the Net” ‑ Vint Cerf’s message from the Sixth RSNOG Conference

The Sixth RSNOG Conference, organised by the Serbia Network Operators’ Group, was held online on 26th November and streamed live via YouTube. As in previous years, the conference was sponsored by the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS), as well as, this year, by the international organisation Internet Society. Internet pioneer Vint Cerf opened the conference and, speaking in his capacity as Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, stressed the fact that the networks were not immune to attack. He talked about the zero trust model and the security mechanisms used for Google’s cloud platform which are intended to “plug” security holes that exist on the Internet. He explained the importance of encryption, not just for the security of information travelling across the Internet but also for its secure storage in the cloud. In his talk he emphasised the importance of the use of security solutions such as DNSSEC and two‑factor authentication. The participation of Vint Cerf was made possible with the help of the Serbian Internet Society. During the introductory portion there were also words of greeting from the head of RATEL (the Serbian telecomms and postal services regulating agency), Dragan Pejović, who talked about the achievements of the Agency and the National CERT...

27.11.2020.

Dejan Đukić appointed director of RNIDS

At its meeting held 29th October, the Board of Governors of the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry Foundation (RNIDS), having reviewed applications submitted during a public recruitment procedure, appointed Dejan Đukić as the new director of the RNIDS Foundation. The term of office of the director lasts four years and his duties include running the RNIDS Office and implementing ongoing business policy and decisions of the Board of Governors. Dejan Đukić has served as Chief Legal and Administrative Officer of RNIDS for a number of years and has been with the Foundation since 2008, working on legal affairs including the drafting of policies and rules for the registration of .RS and .СРБ domains. Since November 2019 he has served as acting director of RNIDS. He has participated in countless local and international conferences relating to Internet domains and ICT policy and has authored a number of articles and papers published in relevant magazines and professional journals. He was a member of the ICANN Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team, and is currently taking part in the ICANN international ccNSO Guidelines Review Committee work. He is a graduate of the Belgrade University Faculty of Law, where he also defended a Master’s thesis on the...

30.10.2020.

TLDCON 2020: the impact of regulations on registries

The conference for national TLD registries of the countries of the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe ‑ TLDCON 2020 ‑ is being held for the thirteenth time in a row, online on 7th and 8th September. Speaking on the first day of the conference, during the session devoted to legal regulations and their impact on the operation of TLD registries, was Dejan Đukić, acting director of RNIDS. Đukić spoke about legislative changes that have affected registration services in the .rs and .срб. domains and have required adaptation and implementation, as was the case with the new Personal Data Protection Law and GDPR. The other important law he discussed the implementation of and which affected the operation of the registry from the legal standpoint, was the Law on Information Security. He explained the significance of this law in the light of the fact that RNIDS has been recognised as an ICT system operator of special importance. Participating in the panel were a representative of the Russian state administration and representatives of Internet associations and registries. After brief introductory talks there was an interesting discussion on how legislation affects various parties, how far‑reaching the role of the state should be, whether there should be more or...

07.09.2020.

Intellectual Property and the Internet Conference 2020 held online

The fifth successive Intellectual Property and the Internet Conference for 2020 was held 4th September. Unlike in previous years, instead of being held at the Belgrade University Faculty of Law the conference was held entirely online. Anyone interested was able to listen to talks ‑ streamed on YouTube ‑ by prominent local and foreign experts on current and significant topics relating to intellectual property. This year too, the conference was jointly organised by the Belgrade Faculty of Law and the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation. After words of greeting from Professor Dr Zoran Mirković, Dean of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, Ivan Minić, vice‑president of the RNIDS Foundation Board of Governors and Professor Dr Dušan V. Popović, chair of the conference organising committee, Dr Krystyna Kowalik‑Bańczyk, judge of the General Court of the EU, based in Luxembourg gave her introductoryu talk. This was an exceptionally rare opportunity for the public in Serbia to hear a talk by a representative of this institution at a local conference. Dr Kowalik‑Bańczyk talked about the experiences of the EU General Court with respect to online trademark infringements, giving interesting and relevant examples. This was followed by talks from lecturers of the faculties of law in Belgrade and...

04.09.2020.

Presentation during ccNSO meeting on the mechanism for the protection of rights in the .rs and .срб domain spaces

The meeting of ICANN’s Country Code Name Supporting Organization (ccNSO) was the setting for a presentation of the mechanisms used to protect rights within the .rs and .срб domain spaces. Speaking on the topic during the virtual meeting of the organisation’s members was acting director of the Register of National Internet Domain Names of Serbia Foundation (RNIDS), Dejan Đukić, who outlined the legal protection system that RNIDS has put in place and presented relevant practice in this area so far. During the presentation Dejan Đukić explained in detail all three of the protection mechanisms employed by RNIDS, those being the arbitration procedure for the resolution of domain name‑related disputes, the procedures for complaints relating to domain name registration rules and the procedures laid down regarding the disclosure of data not available via WHOIS search. The ccNSO sessions were held 2nd June under the title Virtual ccTLD News Sessions, by way of a warm‑up event for the upcoming 68th Policy Forum.

02.06.2020.

DNSSEC‑protected .rs and .срб domains

Someone malicious, given the opportunity to intercept communication with a DNS server or to alter the DNS response by some other means, can redirect users to a completely different location on the Internet. Theft of personal data, bank account and credit card numbers or confidential business data, can often be disastrous both for users and for those whose Internet service has been hijacked. Recently RNIDS has made it possible to protect all domain names in the .rs and .срб domain space from fake DNS responses. DNSSEC allows the authenticity of the source from which the DNS response was received to be validated, as well as the integrity of the response itself. In practice this means that all those using DNS servers with active DNSSEC record validation can be safe in the knowledge that the DNS response for DNSSEC‑signed domains has not been altered en route from the server to the user. Since these changes to the domain name registration system were put in place, several dozen .rs domains have been protected with DNSSEC signatures. Our common goal is to ensure the most secure Internet environment possible, and that includes the security of domain names and the DNS system. That is why we strongly...

21.05.2020.

DIDS 2020 and silent Internet revolutions

On the 19th March the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS) Foundation will organize its eleventh annual conference Serbian Internet Domains Day (DIDS) ‑ DIDS 2020, under the slogan „Silent Internet revolutions“. There are ten DIDS conferences behind us now ‑ ten great tales of the Internet. Year by year, DIDS has chronicled silent Internet revolutions. The eleventh DIDS is set to kick off a new decade ‑ of asking important questions and of seeking to identify where we are today, of remembering where we came from and everything that has happened along the way. Like in the previous years many national and international experts will participate and speak at the conference. DIDS 2020 asks: in seeking to provide Internet users with the privacy they sorely need, is their security being sacrificed? Do new protocols which ensure the privacy of access to online destinations at the same time compromise the basic structure of the Internet, and how does that impact the experience of end‑users? In leaving it up to the tech giants to take care of our online privacy will we end up seeing the Internet solely through their eyes? Through a presentation of the results of recently conducted market research, DIDS 2020 will give an insight into the way Serbian...

10.02.2020.

Vladimir Aleksić elected as the new Chair of RNIDS Conference of Co‑founders

Photo: Stefan Đaković Vladimir Aleksic has been elected as the new Chair of the Conference of the Co‑founders of Serbian National Internet Domain Registry Foundation (RNIDS) during the electoral session held on September 14th at Holiday Inn hotel in Belgrade. The session was attended by 121 co‑founders’ accredited representatives. In the past four years (two terms) the Chair was Zoran Buhavac. Vladimir Aleksić served as the member of the Board of Governors of RNIDS in three terms: from 2009 to 2011, from 2013 to 2016 and from 2016 to 2019. and was engaged as a member of various RNIDS working groups in the period from 2009 to 2019. He is the director of CRI Domains DOO, company which is RNIDS’ accredited registrar. The Conference of Co‑founders is a body of RNIDS comprising the authorized representatives of all co‑founders and elects Chair and a Deputy Chair of the Conference of Co‑founders from among its own number for a period of two years. The Chair and the Deputy Chair of the Conference of Co‑founders can be elected no more than twice consecutively. The previous Chair was chosen on September 16th 2017.

16.09.2019.

RNIDS Info July Edition

No. 43 of RNIDS quarterly newsletter delivers the insight into the Foundation’s main activities in the past quarter. The regular meeting of RNIDS Conference of Cofounders took place in May. The training event, titled Customers a Click Away was held for business owners in Kruševac and the surrounding area in April, and RNIDS professionals were engaged as lecturers at various expert events around Serbia. The scope of the Internet Dialogue event held at Faculty of Law in Belgrade was the lecture of Dr Cedric Manara Google’s Head of Copyright. Two round tables dedicated to domain name system were organised for students of Niš and Kragujevac law faculties. The review of .RS and .СРБ domains statistics is given for the period from April to June 2019, and the publication also contains information about technical and marketing cooperation with registrars. ORštiljada, the informal social event for registrars was organised for the first time in early July. RNIDS representatives participated in the work of numerous relevant conferences, meetings and workshops in Europe and around the world. DOWNLOAD RNIDS Info 43 (PDF, 1,74 MB)

03.09.2019.

Getting Offline to Promote the Online ‑ RNIDS H1 2019 Education Activities

The EU Commission’s DESI index shows that Serbia, a non‑EU country, significantly topped the bottom four EU countries in 2018 in some relevant aspects of digital. This included parameters such as integration of digital technology by business and digital public services (e‑governance). Active internet users and digital services consumers might readily accept that the country is well ahead in digitalization, however, it is still significantly below the EU average. Furthermore, market research ordered by RNIDS showed that less than two years ago 46% of Serbian businesses were not presented online. Not in any form. These companies had no website, did not manage social media pages, and many were even unmentioned in online business repositories like Yellow Pages. Most “offline” businesses are micro and small ones, those which can benefit the most from an online presence. RNIDS (the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry) believes in the power of the internet and its essential importance for boosting the growth of small businesses and in providing a helping hand to those taking baby steps towards increased market penetration using the assets that the internet provides. But the Registry also stands for safe, appropriate and legal use of the internet and reaches out in order to offer...

04.07.2019.