Afilias and CERT-In Sign MoU to Improve Internet Security in India
Cooperation and knowledge sharing will help emergency response to cyber-security threats
New Delhi, India–February 12, 2008 –Afilias, a global provider of registry services, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) to share critical information and resources to enhance cyber-security in India and world-wide, increase awareness of important security issues, and to cooperate in emergency response to critical threats.
“The Internet is a global network, security threats are best addressed through cooperation between organizations and across borders. Afilias’ global expertise will help us improve our ability to report on and respond to threats that affect India, and the sharing of data will help in protecting core Internet infrastructure and the domains that Afilias supports in India.” said Dr. Gulshan Rai, Director of CERT-In. Continue reading »
Afilias Announces Spanish Names for .INFO
Company enhances the non-English speaking Internet by allowing individuals to register web site names with native Spanish characters.
Afilias, a registry services provider, announced that Internet users can now register .INFO domain names that include the Spanish characters á, é, í, ñ, ó, ú, and ü. The introduction of these new domain names, termed Internationalized Domain Names, now enables Spanish-speakers to establish Web sites using words commonly used in Spanish such as película.info, teléfono-móvil.info, Ídolo.info, Piñata.info, and others.
The registry states that this set of Spanish characters adds to their broad support of IDNs, bringing the total number of languages supported to ten. IT also states that these include scripts for Spanish, German, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian and Korean. Continue reading »
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