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The Seventh RSNOG Conference ‑ for a safer, faster, more stable Internet

As in previous years, the seventh RSNOG Conference brought together a great number of local and foreign experts, albeit online. Via the stream, the audience had a chance to hear numerous talks on making the Internet services we use every day ‑ and the Internet as a whole ‑ as reliable, fast and secure as possible. The conference was organised by the Serbian Network Operators Group (RSNOG) with the support of the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS). The conference was opened by Dejan Đukić, Director of the RNIDS Foundation, who said that there were plans to offer new programmes to the community that comes together under the RSNOG umbrella, and to improve capacities for exchange and communication. He said that there were numerous online conferences being organised in the current circumstances but that regardless of the industry they were targeted towards and the content they were offering, quality speakers and topics were key to drawing in and retaining audiences. Mihailo Jovanović, Director of the Serbian government Office for IT and eGovernance noted that the public was getting quickly and easily accustomed to electronic services and online communication, as evidenced by the increase in the number of users of the various services offered by the...

01.12.2021.

Seventh RSNOG conference, 30th November, online

For the seventh time the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) supports the realisation of RSNOG conference, organised by the RS Network Operators’ Group. Save the date ‑ 30th November for RSNOG conference and follow along online via the stream. When Facebook, and the other services owned by the same company, ‘disappeared off the face of the Internet’ for almost six hours in early October, depriving almost 3.5 billion users worldwide of service, it was no small concern for all those whose businesses depended on presenting and promoting their products and services on this social network. This episode reminded many of the need for a back‑up plan for those situations when the platform of a particular provider of business services (be they messaging, advertising, promotional or some other) becomes inaccessible for any reason. The aforementioned incident will serve as a useful occasion for operators and IT companies developing Internet services to discuss the topics of network performance measurement and fast failover at the forthcoming RSNOG conference. In recent years, the demands and expectations of users have fundamentally changed, and consequently these topics are becoming increasingly important. Some 20 or 30 years ago when services such as DNS and BGP were developed, on which the...

08.11.2021.

WHOIS Hackathon: 10 teams, 10 functional applications

The jury of the online WHOIS Hackathon, organised last weekend (25th and 26th September) by the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) and Quantox Technology, was faced with no small task ‑ to choose the winner of the hackathon from amongst stiff competition. Redtech Zemare took first place ‑ a team comprising programmers Milan Cupać, Željko Lučić, Igor Stevanović, Andrija Jelenković and Damjan Denić. Second place were Comfortably Dumb, comprising David Milinković, Pavle Pađin, Ivan Jevtić and Mihailo Trajković, who were virtually neck‑and‑neck with the third‑placed team of Trošica, consisting of Janko Đurić, Natalija Ostojić, Željko Milojević, Janko Mirković and Željko Kosovac. As the jury ‑ comprising Petar Slović, director of innovations of Quantox Technology, Damjan Tomić, technical director of IT Biz Solutions, and Dušan Stojičević, Gransy, fomer vice‑Chair of the Universal Acceptance Group (UASG) ‑ emphasised multiple times as they were presenting the hackathon solutions on 27th September, there was very little to separate the winners. All ten of the teams selected for the competition delivered fully functional mobile phone apps providing WHOIS and DNS data on available and registered domain names (both Cyrillic and Latin) in the given domain spaces. Many teams went a step further, including additional TLDs and more data (e.g. the postal code of...

28.09.2021.

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

Vladimir Aleksić has been elected as Chair of the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) Conference of Co‑founders. During the electoral session of the Conference, held online between 9th and 15th December, votes were cast by 126 co‑founders of RNIDS. Photo: Stefan Đaković This is Mr Aleksić’s second consecutive term in this position. Prior to this he was a member of the RNIDS Board of Governors for three terms between 2009 and 2019, as well as a member of multiple working groups in RNIDS. He is the director of CRI Domains d.o.o., a RNIDS accredited registrar. The term of office of Conference Chair lasts two years.

20.09.2021.

WHOIS hackathon on September 25th and 26th

Serbian National Internet Domain Registry Foundation (RNIDS) and Quantox Technology teamed up to organize an online WHOIS hackathon. On September 25th and 26th, the registered teams will search for the optimal solution and develop a mobile application that offers answers about free or registered domain names around the world, primarily national .rs and .срб domain names. Applications for the hackathon are open from September 1st to 19th, and teams can apply on the following link. Teams that have enough technical knowledge and will to participate, can apply, and by September 22nd, the jury will select 10 teams with up to five members who will work on the solution for 48 hours using a freely chosen technology and development environment. The hackathon is realized online, team members can cooperate virtually, from the comfort of their home, workspace, or organize cooperation in some other way that suits them best. Symbolic prizes are provided for all hackathon participants, and the three first‑place teams win one of the money prizes. The realization of the hackathon was supported by ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). More information about the hackathon, conditions of participation, and prizes is available at the link: whoishakaton.rs.

01.09.2021.

EuroDIG 2021 conference, live from a studio in Belgrade: Into Europe’s Digital Decade

The Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS), in partnership with the DiploFoundation and the Internet Society, co‑hosted the largest European conference devoted to Internet governance policy development ‑ EuroDIG 2021 ‑ and facilitated its broadcast from a studio in Belgrade. The conference was declared open in the Belgrade studio by Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications, Tatjana Matić, who expressed great honor at the fact that Serbia was able to stand together in this endeavor with partners like European Commission, Council of Europe, ICANN, European Broadcasting Union, and certainly the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry, DiploFoundation and Internet Society that are behind Belgrade studio this year. Over the three‑day virtual conference, the slogan of which this year was Into Europe’s Digital Decade, the audience had a chance to hear, via the programme broadcast from the Belgrade studio, talks and panel discussions on the topics of IoT technologies, security, rights and principles in the online environment, regulation of digital services, data protection in the context of artificial intelligence, human and algorithmic bias in decision‑making, fake news and media literacy, best practices in the self‑regulation and co‑regulation of online platforms, user perspective and the implementation of 5G technologies as well as competition in the digital system in...

05.07.2021.

Regional TLD Forum 2021

The second day of the DIDS 2021 conference was devoted to the Regional TLD Forum. This event has been held as a side event to DIDS since 2015, and was held online this year for the first time. This year the event brought together 23 representatives from the national registries of Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro and Serbia. It was held in a round‑table format, at which representatives of national registries were able to share information and experiences in the areas of technology, law and marketing. First the representatives of RNIDS, as the host of the event, presented their work on establishing a regional Anycast service, which they are working on with their colleagues from the Slovenian registry. There was also discussion of upgrading hardware infrastructure and working on bringing rulebooks up to date. The marketing representative presented the idea of the pitajte.rs project and the infographic as a mural, as well as interesting traffic statistics for the domen.rs site. The Montenegrin registry has received a boost to its staffing and initiated some new projects. One of them is drop catching ‑ they have introduced what is known as a drop zone, which is a one‑hour window in which all their accredited registrars can access and register...

19.03.2021.

DIDS 2021 Digital ‑ praise in the chat instead of applause in the room

For the first time since 2010, when the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) began organising DIDS (Serbian Internet Domains Day), this conference was held completely online. Its slogan, “Servant. Master. Internet.” was meant to summarise the central topic in three words: the role of the Internet in our lives and businesses over the last year. From the first case of coronavirus in Serbia until today a significant portion of the economy has been experiencing a slowdown, but there have also been areas in which surprising growth has been seen, such as in e‑commerce and delivery services. The speakers and participants of the panel debates at DIDS shared data on current and expected trends, and also gave some specific advice on how to optimise web stores and improve communication with clients. Evidence of the “new normal” we have been hearing about for months could be seen in the fact that speakers got praise in the chat window on the conference website instead of applause. Viewers’ comments were permeated with a sense of nostalgia for the personal contact, face‑to‑face conversation and socialising that DIDS attendees have become accustomed to, but they also had words of praise for the digital version,...

18.03.2021.

New Chair and Deputy Chair of RNIDS BoG elected

At the Serbian national Internet domain registry Foundation ‑ RNIDS Board of Governors (BoG) session held on February 25th new Chair and Deputy chair of BoG were elected. Ivan Minić was elected to be the Chair of the BoG and Mirko Mirković was appointed as the Deputy Chair of BoG. RNIDS Board of Directors mandate expires in February 2022.

25.02.2021.

Welcome to DIDS 2021 Digital

One of the best‑known conferences devoted to the Internet, organised since 2010 by the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry (RNIDS), will for the first time be held entirely online. The slogan for this year’s DIDS conference is meant to summarise the role of the Internet over the preceding year in three words: “Servant. Master. Internet.” Join us live on 17th March, starting at 10 a.m. at dids.rs, when with the help of first‑rate speakers and panel participants we will examine whether the economy could have had any better servant than the Internet during the pandemic, but also ask ourselves whether the Internet has irreversibly imposed its rule over practically all aspects of our lives. A year after the first lockdown was imposed in Serbia in the face of the pandemic that has held the whole world in its grip and almost brought it to a halt, we talk about the Internet ‑ the thing that has made it possible to keep things moving despite everything, whether that be the content that for some has been their only company in times of isolation, or the goods and services that have kept many businesses around the world above water. It has been at the service...

23.02.2021.

A gift from RNIDS ‑ new Cyrillic fonts Orto RNIDS

Orto RNIDS is a new Cyrillic typeface created primarily for on‑screen display, a gift from the Serbian National Internet Domain Name Registry Foundation (RNIDS) to Internet users, which can be downloaded for free from our site, rnids.rs. This is the second Cyrillic typeface that RNIDS has supported the creation of, in partnership with the organisation Tipometar. The new fonts are being made available to mark the ninth anniversary of the beginning of registrations of Cyrillic .срб domains. Unlike the Areal RNIDS typeface, presented in January 2020, which is a slab serif typeface, Orto RNIDS is in a sans serif humanist style. Within the typeface there are upright and italic fonts, each in two weights. It was created with the idea that the shapes of the characters would be well suited to on‑screen display but perform well in print, too. The author of the Orto RNIDS typeface is Ana Prodanović, assistant professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Applied Arts. The new typeface was presented at an online event called Cyrillic in the Digital World, with its author, Ana Prodanović, giving a talk about the process of creating fonts, where the inspiration for them comes from and their everyday usage. Following this the audience had...

27.01.2021.

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.