Internet Governance

Governmental Advisory Committee (GAG), Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and High Level Group on Internet governance (HLIG)

European e-Skills Week 2012

The European e-Skills Week is going be organised from 26 to 30 March 2012.

The Czech Republic will host ICANN

44th meeting of ICANN will be held in Prague

Communication on e-commerce and other online services

The European Commission published the Communication on e-commerce and other online services containing the action plan to achieve the digital single market by 2015.

Since 12th of January the ICANN begins to accept applications for new gTLDs

Legal and physical entities may submit applications for new gTLDs

Decisions by the Court of Justice of the European Union relating to Directive 2000/31/EC

A brief overview of decisions by the Court of Justice of the European Union relating to Directive 2000/31/EC on electronic commerce in 2011

Decision by the High Court in Prague in the case of PROLUX Consulting Int., s. r. o., v Internet Info, s. r. o.

The High Court in Prague interprets in the case of PROLUX Consulting v. Internet Info the liability of a service provider pusuant to Section 5 of Act No. 480/2004 Coll., on Certain Information Society Services

The new report of European Commission about implementation, effectiveness and functioning of TLD .eu has been released

The .eu domain has celebrated its fifth anniversary on April

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has approved Rules for New Generic Top Level Domains

The ICANN Board decided to extend the generic top level domains list during the Singapore ICANN meeting

The Czech Statistical Office released a publication ICT and its usage in business

The Czech Statistical Office has published on its website publication "Information and Communication technologies in business sector for a year 2010"

Ran out of IPv4 addresses

Addresses IPv4 on the highest level ran out

Digital Czech Republic

Government approved State policy in electronic communications

Preparation of the strategy "Digital Czech Republic" has been finished

The Ministry of Industry and Trade prepared national strategy for electronic communications

Public Consultation on the Final Proposal of the New Generic Top-Level Domains Programme

ICANN published the Proposed Final New gTLD Applicant Guidebook

Public Consultation on Recommendations on Improvements of ICANN´s Performance

team reviewing the performance of ICANN in the area of accountability and transparency published a draft of its recommendations

New Generic Top-Level Domains Timetable

starting the end of May 2011 it should be possible to apply for new generic Top-Level Domains

Less than 5 % of unallocated IPv4 Addresses

further substantial drop in number of free IPv4 addresses announced

Fifth Internet Governance Forum and its evaluation

Fifth global forum dealing with the Internet governance issues took place in Lithuania in September; success and benefits of this year's forum will be evaluated in November in Geneva

Meeting of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and Governmental Advisory Committee

38th ICANN meeting took place in Brussels at the end of July, GAC meeting gathering together government representatives was held in parallel with ICANN meeting

WSIS Forum 2010

forum on the World Summit on the Information Society took place in Geneva in May 2010

Meeting of Internet Community during RIPE Event in Prague

60th RIPE Meeting took place in Prague from 3 to 7 May 2010

Enhanced Security of Domain Name System

ICANN finished test signing of the DNS root zone with DNSSEC technology

First Internationalized Country Code Top Level Domains

historically first three ccTLDs using non-Latin scripts came into existence

European Dialogue on Internet Governance

pan-European discussion on current Internet governance issues took place in Madrid at the end of April 2010