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DIDS 2019: Everything a click away by 2030?

The rate of digitalisation and its future direction, and the numerous benefits and challenges placed before companies and individuals by the processes of digital transformation, were the topics of discussion during the DIDS 2019 conference. The tenth anniversary edition of Serbian Internet Domains Day (DIDS) was held on 5th March in the conference hall of the Belgrade Metropol Palace Hotel, organised by the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS) Foundation. Almost 350 attendees, as well as many watching the online stream, were able to hear first‑hand about various aspects of the processes that are changing our lives, our leisure and our business, and which are encompassed by the term “digital transformation”. The tenth DIDS was officially opened by Vladimir Manić, Director of RNIDS: “Digital transformation has become an inescapable fact of our everyday lives. It is present in business, and in the state and private sectors, and the Internet is one of the key factors in this transformation. Our Foundation has recognised the significance of digital transformation and so this anniversary DIDS will focus on this topic.” During the first block, Transformation of government services, there was discussion of the prospects that tasks which currently involve waiting in queues and filing copious paperwork could...

07.03.2019.

New RNIDS Board of Governors chosen

During an electoral session of the Conference of Co‑founders, held on 9th February at Holiday Inn Hotel in Belgrade, a new Board of Governors of the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS) Foundation was chosen. Out of 142 co‑founders authorised representatives of 125 co‑founders assembled. New Board of Governors members are: Miloje Sekulić Goran Milanković Ivana Đidić Bešić Ivan Minić Mirko Mirković Staniša Josić Zoran Perović The Board of Governors of RNIDS has a mandate of three years.

11.02.2019.

.RS domain worth more as of 10th December

There is a saying in Serbian that “You are worth the number of languages you speak”. As of 10th December our .RS domain will “speak” no less than 13 languages, supporting the specific letters of their official scripts. In addition to Serbian letters, .RS domain names will support characters from the Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Montenegrin, Romanian, Romany, Slovak, Slovene and Vlach languages. In doing so our .RS domain joins the great global family of IDN domains, which currently comprise around 7.5 million registered IDNs. Domain names comprising any letter not contained within the English alphabet (i.e. in the ASCII character set) are referred to as IDNs (Internationalised Domain Names), and the initial registration period for IDNs will begin within the .RS domain on 10/12/2018 at 12 noon. There is a global commitment to multilinguality on the Internet. The concept of IDNs first emerged online in 1996, and in 2000 registration of IDNs was enabled within the .COM and .NET domains. Only a year later, ccTLDs began registrations of IDNs, among the first of which was the Japanese .JP domain. In 2003, ICANN, the organisation that manages the global structure of the Internet, approved the IDN standard, and the same year,...

27.11.2018.

October edition of RNIDS Info

Issue 41 of the RNIDS Info corporate newsletter brings an overview of events at RNIDS and in the local and global Internet community during the third quarter of 2018. The 10th anniversary was marked of the commencement of public registrations in the .RS domain, and the autumn series of RNIDS training events began. A gathering was held to discuss the online presence of Serbian cultural institutions, as was a conference of accredited registrars. Danko Jevtović was elected to the Board of Directors of ICANN, and a domain‑related dispute was concluded. Both technical and promotional partnership with RNIDS accredited registrars was continued. As regards international cooperation, RNIDS representatives attended a number of meetings in Europe and all over the world. DOWNLOAD: RNIDS Info 41 (PDF, 3.15 MB)

13.11.2018.

July edition of RNIDS Info

Issue 40 of the RNIDS Info corporate newsletter brings an overview of events at RNIDS and in the local and global Internet community during the second quarter of 2018. A new Foundation director was appointed ‑ Vladimir Manić ‑ and the regular May meeting of the Conference of Cofounders was held. The 100,000th .RS domain name was registered, and a new RNIDS privacy policy passed. The Intellectual Property and the Internet conference 2018 was held in this period and technical and promotional partnership with RNIDS accredited registrars was also continued. As regards international cooperation, RNIDS representatives attended a number of meetings in Europe and all over the world. DOWNLOAD: RNIDS Info 40 (PDF, 3.42 MB)

27.09.2018.

RNIDS becomes a member of the international DNS‑OARC organisation

Pursuant to a decision by its Conference of Co‑founders, the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) has become a member of the DNS Operations, Analysis, and Research Center (DNS‑OARC), which brings together DNS operators, network operators, researchers, software companies and others involved in the research and development of DNS and of the DNS protocol. DNS‑OARC was established by the ISC (Internet Systems Consortium) and CAIDA (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis) in 2003 as an independent, not‑for‑profit organisation of public significance, with five key functions: Facilitating information‑sharing between interested parties; Measuring the performance of and load on key servers, and describing their behaviour in operation; Organising industry workshops; Analysing the performance of the DNS and the operation of the DNS in the event of an attack; Developing publicly‑available tools and services for diagnosing and remedying problems in the operation of the DNS; By becoming a member of the only organisation engaged in research and development of the DNS and the DNS protocol at the global level, RNIDS will be in a position to access the latest information in the field of DNS, the results of research, and the tools developed by this organisation, as well as to take active part in development projects in an area which comprises...

22.08.2018.

Vladimir Manić appointed Director of RNIDS

The Board of Governors of RNIDS, following a public application procedure, appointed Vladimir Manić as the director of the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry Foundation (RNIDS) on 21st June. The Director’s term of office lasts for four years and his job includes deciding on current business policy and managing the operation of the RNIDS Office. Vladimir Manić has more than 20 years’ experience in IT and telecommunications, and more than 15 years’ in the project management of IT teams in complex business systems. He is a member of prominent international organisations in the fields of project management and business analytics. He graduated from the University of Niš Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Computer Science and then gained a Masters in Business Administration and Management from the Belgrade University Faculty of Economics. He holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate, gained in 2007. #s3gt_translate_tooltip_mini { display: none !important; }

22.06.2018.

April edition of RNIDS Info

Issue 39 of the RNIDS Info corporate newsletter brings an overview of events at RNIDS and in the local and global Internet community in the first quarter of 2018. The Cyribusters 3 event was traditionally held to mark the anniversary of the .СРБ domain. RNIDS worked on harmonising its General Terms and Conditions for the Registration of National Internet Domain Names with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In Q1, all RNIDS systems and services operated without interruption and were accessible to users 100% of the time. A new Lead ICT Engineer was taken on in the RNIDS Office, and technical and marketing partnership with RNIDS accredited registrars was continued. As regards international cooperation, RNIDS representatives attended a number of meetings in Europe and all over the world. DOWNLOAD: RNIDS Info 39 (PDF, 2.73 MB)

20.06.2018.

Intellectual Property and the Internet conference 2018

The Belgrade Faculty of Law and the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry Foundation (RNIDS) organised the fourth Intellectual Property and the Internet conference on 11th June 2018. This year the discussion was of numerous current topics concerning copyright, domain names, online content and new technologies. “We have all become Internet addicts, and we are becoming increasingly careless in the way we use it. That is why the protection of subjective rights relating to the use of intellectual assets on the Internet is an area deserving of special attention,” said acting Dean of the Faculty of Law Prof Dr Vladan Petrov. Chair of the RNIDS Board Vojislav Rodić noted that 2018 was a very significant year for RNIDS. “We are marking ten years since the launch of the .rs domain, and not long ago the one‑hundred‑thousandth .rs domain was registered. This is a reminder to us of how much of our activity is conducted on the Internet, and raises the need for new rules to protect us in our virtual interactions.” Domain names are of great importance in today’s business world, but in practice they have often become the subject of dispute. Full professor of the Faculty of Law and chair of the Committee for the resolution of...

12.06.2018.

The 100,000th .RS domain UTS Balkan Tools: tools for professionals and hobbyists

Exactly 3686 days after the registration of the first .RS domain name, the 100,000th was registered on 13th April 2018. It was the domain utsbalkantools.rs, and here is the story of the company behind it. UTS Balkan Tools is a young, part‑Serbian, part‑Italian‑owned company in Belgrade which began operating in February 2018. The core business of this company is distribution of cutting tools, hand tools, machines and tools for the mechanical engineering industry, as well as top quality tools for the hobbyist. There are three people behind the company, Alessandro Favaretto, Ana Drobnjak and Silvano Vitiello, who have joined forces to bring innovations from the West to the Serbian market that will help develop the business of local companies. How did the idea come about to open UTS Balkan Tools in Serbia specifically? Ana Drobnjak: The original idea to establish UTS Balkan Tools came from the chief investor and director of the company, Italian Alessandro Favaretto. He had been doing business supplying cutting tools in Italy for more than 10 years. He happened to meet some people from our region and, two years ago, came to Serbia and visited Belgrade, which he took a great liking to. Here he found what he called “fertile soil”....

21.05.2018.

100,000 .RS domain names registered

In the year that RNIDS marks the 10th anniversary of .RS domain, Friday 13th, saw the registration of the one hundred thousandth .RS domain name. Registrations of .RS domain names began officially on 10th March 2008 at midday, simultaneously via 27 companies that were accredited to provide registration services. That first day, 7,000 domain names were registered. In the following six months, up to 10th September 2008, owners of the old .YU domain names had right of first refusal for registration of equivalent names with the .RS suffix, an opportunity taken for 19,372 domains. In the meantime the .RS domain grew both numerically and in terms of quality. The infrastructure was upgraded and new registration software was created. It is the only TLD with three types of protection and has enjoyed 100% uptime since its launch until the present day, making it one of only seven world domain names to have zero downtime in the last ten years. Today .RS domain names can be registered by any legal entity or individual, foreign or domestic, quickly, easily and in unlimited numbers, via one of the 44 RNIDS accredited registrars, which has brought us to the round figure of 100,000 domain names. READ MORE: a detailed history of the .RS domain. #s3gt_translate_tooltip_mini { display:...

13.04.2018.

Special DIDS 2018 edition of RNIDS Info

The customary special DIDS edition of the RNIDS Info corporate newsletter, issue 38, gives a condensed report from the 9th annual Internet conference held 6th and 7th March. This issue brings a block‑by‑block overview of the first day of DIDS, visitor comments, photos and useful links to further information and to download the video recordings. The second day of the DIDS 2018 conference was set aside for the fourth regional industry Internet gathering, titled the Regional TLD Forum. DOWNLOAD: RNIDS Info 38 (PDF, 1.6 MB)

29.03.2018.