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RESTENA Foundation formalizes its relationship with ICANN
In its function as manager of the country code top level domain .lu (DNS-LU), the RESTENA Foundation exchanged letters with ICANN describing the roles of both parties. By this exchange, the RESTENA Foundation demonstrates its commitment towards a stable and secure .lu for the benefit of the entire internet community, and expresses its support for the ICANN model.
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Revised Domain Name Charter
Since of January 1st 2011 a revised version of the Domain Name Charter for domain names under .lu is applicable. Restrictions regarding registration of domain names containing the name of Luxembourg municipality or village names are not any more part of the Charter.
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Removal of the reservation of domain names of Luxembourg municipality and village names on behalf of local authorities
As of January 1st 2011 domain names containing the name of any
Luxembourg municipality or village name have become available to any
interested party independent of its nationality and residence. Until January 1st 2011 domain
names belonging to this category were exclusively reserved for local administration. This is as well applicable to IDN versions of the concerned domain names.
Removal of the obligation of the administrative contact to be established in Luxembourg
Since February 1st 2010 domain name holders which are established outside Luxembourg are no longer obliged to give valid power of attorney to an agent established in Luxembourg for the registration and the management of their domain name.
Opening of .lu online registrations
Since May 15th DNS-LU 2010 has opened its new registration platform called my.lu for .lu domain name registration and management. The platform is accessible to any interesting party 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Cost of registration has been fixed at 25 Euro VAT incl. per domain name and year.
Updated Domain Name Charter applicable since February 1st 2010
On March 16th 2001 the Luxembourg Government has set up a working group (WG) to redefine the Domain Name Charter for the Luxembourg national top level domain .lu. The Charter is the result of a close collaboration between RESTENA Foundation and the private actors and public representatives of the Luxembourg internet community. Present updated version of the Charter has been defined during a meting of the WG as of September 17th 2009. For further details regarding the updated domain name registration policy for .lu domain names, see hereafter.
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Registration of IDN now open for everybody
Since February 1st 2010 registration of domain names with special characters in them, like for example a letter with an accent, called Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) .lu is possible. Acceptable special characters are those commonly used in Luxembourgish, German and French languages.
There has been a two months sunrise period between February 1st 2010 and March 31st 2010. During this sunrise period owners of registered .lu names have been able to register the identical names with special characters. With the ending of this sunrise period as of April 1st 2010, IDN registrations are now open for everybody and performed on a "first-come, first-served basis".
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Opening of registration of Temporary blocked domain names
Domain names which have been rejected under former registration policies and which have been identified as Temporary blocked domain names, will become available for registration in a near future. Details of the registration process, which still need to be finalized, as well as the date of release, will all be published in due time on the DNS-LU website.
Luxembourg .lu domain names rank amongst the most secure in the world
The .lu domain is one of the world's securest top-level domains (TLD). That is the conclusion of an annual survey by US security software company McAfee. Luxembourg ranks on the 2nd position among the 27 EU countries, just behind Ireland. Luxembourg domain is 4th among worldwide country domains tested, where Japan (.jp) is the safest country domain globally, Ireland's .ie domain came second, followed by Croatia (.hr) and Luxembourg (.lu). McAfee checked out more than 5.750 .lu websites to arrive at the rating. Cameroon (cm) is the least secure domain worldwide. The risk of being infected by a computer virus when surfing is 69,7 percent when visiting a website from Cameroon (.cm). In Luxembourg, by contrast, it is only 0,3 percent. Of all the websites tested worldwide, 5.8 percent are rated as insecure.
"It is reassuring to see .lu in the upper part of the worldwide security level", said Antoine Barthel, managing director of RESTENA Foundation which operates the .lu registry DNS-LU. "McAfee's findings confirm that our continuous efforts and investments to make the .lu domain one of the most secure produce outstanding performances".
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