March 2019 - N°81

 

A LA UNE

 

Thanks to its sustained growth, the .fr TLD continued to gain market share in France in 2018

 

With more than 3.3 million .fr domain names registered at the end of 2018, i.e. a growth rate of 4.4% in 1 year, the French namespace has once again confirmed its popularity and is gaining market share in France. Afnic, the registry appointed by the French government to manage domain names under the .fr, reviews 2018 in figures and provides its outlooks for the future.

 

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30 years of success and danger: the Web, URLs and the future

 
This month (the exact date is apparently not known), we are celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the World Wide Web. It was in March 1989 that Tim Berners-Lee and then Robert Cailliau laid the foundation stones for what was to become one of the most important services to use the Internet. 

 
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Back to the campaign of attacks on domain names

 

Afnic puts the chronology and impact of a campaign of attacks against domain names back into perspective and reviews the means of prevention.

 
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AGENDA
 
21-22 March 2019 - France
Bordeaux: CENTR General Assembly
 
23-29 Mach 2019 - Czech Republic
Prague: IETF 104
 
26-28 March 2019 - Germany
Rust: CloudFest 2019
 
2 April 2019 - France
Paris: Afnic Consultative Committee special Internet Governance Forum [ Register]
 
12-13 May 2019 - Thailand
Bangkok: OARC 30
 
16 May 2019 - France
Paris: Afnic Forum 2019 [ Register]

20-24 May 2019 - Iceland
Reykjavik: RIPE 78
 
27-29 May 2019 - Netherlands
Amsterdam: CENTR Jamboree
 
12-13 June 2019 - France
Lyon: Entrepreneurs Trade Faire 
 
12-13 June 2019 - France
Paris: Afnic International College Days
 
14 June 2019 - France
Paris: Afnic General Assembly
 
24-27 June 2019 - Morocco
Marrakech: ICANN 65
 

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