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  • Provisioning new infrastructure – tender results
    Belgrade, 21 June 2010 – Providers of equipment and services for the operation of DNS servers and applications for .rs domain registration were selected in three tenders announced this year.
    Hardware and accompanying software for the primary and secondary location will be provided by Coming Computer Engineering. The deadline for the implementation is 19 August 2010. The solution is based on VMWare virtualisation software.
    The new location will be in the Data Centre of the Internet Service Provider Absolut OK which will also provide links to the current location at the School of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade.
    Microsoft licenses necessary for the implementation of the new infrastructure will be delivered by S&T Serbia.

  • Selected proposals for the Cyrillic domain name of Serbia which will go to public voting
    Belgrade, 10 May 2010 - The working group for the introduction of the Cyrillic ccTLD, which is supposed to represent Serbia online, has reviewed all proposals for the new Cyrillic domain name.

    During the review of the proposals for the Cyrillic domain name of Serbia, the following methods have been used:

    • questionnaires conducted at IT conventions
    • RNIDS forum dedicated to the choice of Cyrillic domain name
    • forums organised within IT magazines and journals
    • questionnaires of RNIDS
    Complying with the criteria defined by ICANN in the document which regulates the procedure for submitting a request for the IDN ccTLD, the working group has chosen a total of 4 proposals that fulfill the following conditions: being recognisable, meaningful, denoting a country, not using confusing characters, not associated with the already used abbreviations and so on.

    The working group would like to thank everyone who took part in the public discussion by sending their proposals.

    Please visit www.glasanje.rnids.rs as soon as possible so as to vote for the new domain name which will best represent Serbia.

  • The Day of RNIDS
    Belgrade, 4 March 2010 – RNIDS organises an event to mark two years from the initiation of the .rs domain registration process and three years from the foundation of RNIDS. It will take place in the Serbian Chamber of Commerce on 5 March 2010 and its beginning is scheduled for 10 am.

    Ms. Jasna Matić, the Minister for Telecommunications and Information Society will open the ceremony. Representatives of several European registers will participate in the event. After the ceremonial part, a public debate will be initiated on the new Cyrillic domain that will represent Serbia on the Internet.

  • SPC participates in selecting Cyrillic Internet domain of Serbia
    Belgrade, 3 March 2010 – At a proposal of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS), the Serbian Orthodox Church will participate in activities related to the choice of the Cyrillic Internet domain of Serbia. The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church delegated Mr. Oliver Subotić as its representative in a working group for selecting the Cyrillic domain of Serbia. Mr. Subotić is a theologian and information scientist, as well as the head of the Center for the Study and Use of Modern Technologies. To see the news on the official Website of the Serbian Orthodox Church, please visit the following link: http://www.spc.rs/eng/soc_participates_selection_cyrillic_internet_domain_serbia

  • 55,555th domain registered in Belgrade
    Belgrade, 12 February 2010 - On 11 February 2010 at 10:54 am, the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) registered the 55,555th domain (inter-stal.co.rs) in Belgrade.

  • End of deadline for submitting offers for provisioning hardware and accompanying software
    Belgrade, 10 February 2010 – The deadline for submitting offers for provisioning hardware and accompanying software was ended by the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names on 8 February 2010 at 4pm. Five interested companies submitted their offers.
    The commission opened the offers on 9 February 2010 at 4pm in the premises of RNIDS. The procedure now requires the commission to estimate the offers.

  • Less than 10 percent of available IPv4 addresses left
    Belgrade, 8 February 2010 – The IPv4 protocol enabled the allocation of more than four billion IP addresses, which seemed to be more than enough at the moment it occurred.
    ICANN has informed the public that approximately 10 percent of IP (about 400 million) addresses are still available, meaning they are still not allocated. These addresses are expected to be allocated in the following two years. Since all allocated addresses are still not used, the actual lack of IPv4 addresses will not be noticed in the near future. Because there are not many IPV4 addresses left, it is clear that the migration to the IPv6 addressing system needs to be planned. This system will enable the registration of 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 addresses compared to 4294967296 addresses within the IPv4 protocol.

    Additional information on the IPv6 protocol is available here.

  • Conclusion of the Serbian Government regarding Cyrillic ccTLD
    Belgrade, 2 February 2010 – At a session held on 14 January 2010, the Government brought a conclusion on the responsibilities of the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society in creating conditions for the allocation of the Cyrillic ccTLD. The conclusion of the Government is available here.

  • End of deadline for participating in tender for provisioning equipment
    Belgrade, 29 January 2010 – The Serbian National Registry of Internet Domain Names would like to inform the public that the deadline for applying in the tender for provisioning hardware and accompanying software expired as of midnight.

    A total of 44 companies obtained the tender documentation.

  • Tender for the procurement of equipment
    Belgrade, 18 January 2010 – The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names has announced a public invitation for collecting offers for provisioning hardware and accompanying software. The deadline for obtaining documentation is 10 days and the deadline for submitting offers is 8 February 2010. For additional information, please visit the part of our Website under Procurement.

  • Financial plan of RNIDS for 2010 ratified
    Belgrade, 12 December 2009 – An extraordinary session of RNIDS Assembly was held in the Holiday Inn hotel. The session was attended by 27 delegates (63% of members). Presentation of the plan and discussion took three hours, after which the plan for the next year was ratified unanimously.
    This date is expected to become the date for holding regular sessions that will deal with plans and development of the Register.


  • RNIDS awarded with IT Globus 2009
    Belgrade, 2 December 2009 – The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names received the IT Globus 2009 award. RNIDS was awarded within the Internet Development category for introducing the .RS domain. The award was given to representatives of RNIDS at a convention held at the Ceremonial Hall of The Assembly of the City of Belgrade.

    IT Globus is the annual award for the best products and services within the field of ITC technologies in Serbia. It is awarded by the magazine Mikro-PC World.

  • New director of RNIDS
    Belgrade, 30 September 2009 – At a meeting held on 13 September 2009, the Managing Board of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names appointed a new director of RNIDS, Mr. Nenad Marinković who used to be the director of Telefonservis a.d. The term of office of the new director begins on 5 October 2009.
    Additional information about the new director is available here.

  • Additional six months for .YU domain
    Belgrade, 30 September 2009 – The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) would like to inform the public that ICANN Board of Directors is having a meeting at the moment and that we have been informed that the extension of the .YU domain for the maximum period of 6 months has been approved, under conditions that RNIDS will subsequently be informed about. The Managing Board of RNIDS will bring a decision about the deadline for canceling the remaining 4,000 YU domains after getting the final decision from ICANN. We will inform the public about this in a timely manner.

    RNIDS is the organization managing the national Internet domain .rs and is also responsible for managing the old .yu domain. ICANN is an international body managing Internet domains at the global level and bringing decisions about delegations, that is introducing and canceling national and generic Internet domains.

  • RNIDS Assembly Meeting
    Belgrade, 23 July 2009 – The Assembly of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) will hold an extraordinary meeting on Saturday 5 September 2009 at the Holiday Inn hotel in Belgrade. New Management Board members will be appointed at the meeting. The session will begin at 11 o'clock.

  • Fifty thousand .RS Internet domain names
    Belgrade, 9 July 2009 - The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) stated that the new Serbian Internet domain .RS got its 50,000th user on 7 July 2009. It is "Rival" d.о.о. from Belgrade that registered the domain name rival.co.rs. The company will be award free domain registration.

    Compared to May, the number of registered .RS domains increased in June by 22%. RNIDS would like to remind the public about our ongoing promotional campaign, which will last until 31 August 2009. During the promotional period, all the interested are invited to register their .IN.RS domains at reduced prices. The .IN.RS domain is dedicated to personal and family Websites and e-mail addresses. To keep yourself informed about advantages of using the .RS domain, please visit www.zelim.rs. User advices and other useful information for new Internet users are also available on this promotional site.

    The major advantage of the .RS domain is that plenty of interesting terms are still available as potential Internet domain names (personal names, company or product names, geographical and general terms, etc. ). Many interesting domain names are already registered under international Internet domains (.COM, .ORG, .NET,...). When companies and individual users register one or more .RS domains, they fully protect their identity or brand in the Serbian Internet space.

  • New .rs domain registration prices
    Belgrade, 1 June 2009 - The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) would like to inform the general public that .rs domain registration prices for registrants are reduced as of today, 1 June 2009. RNIDS has reduced domain prices by approximately 10 percent.
    The new domain Registrar prices from RNIDS are as follows:

    • .rs domain - 1,350 RSD
    • co.rs, org.rs and edu.rs - 450 RSD
    • in.rs - 250 RSD

  • Registration renewal for .YU domains has ended
    Belgrade, 4 May 2009 - The additional period of time during which it was possible to renew the registration of .YU domains ended today. A total of 4,051 .YU domains were renewed. Renewed .YU domains will be active on the Internet until 30 September 2009.

  • Termination of .YU Internet Domain
    The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) would like to remind Internet users in Serbia that the .YU domain will stop functioning on 30 September 2009 at midnight, in accordance with a decision of ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).

    The transition from .YU Internet domains to new .RS domains was finalised at the beginning of May 2009. Approximately 4,000 domains within the old YU register are still functioning. There are about 50,000 registered .RS domains at the moment.

    (Download Announcement - PDF)

  • Price-list changes
    Belgrade, 30 April 2009 - At its 51st session, the Managing Board of RNIDS brought a Decision on amendments and additions to the Decision on the Price-list of RNIDS, thus reducing prices for registering .rs domains.
    At the same session, the Managing Board decided to launch a promotional campaign for registering in.rs domains. The campaign will last from 1 June 2009 to 31 August 2009 and during this period the registration of in.rs domains will cost 150 RSD.
    Pursuant to Article 10, Paragraph 3 of the General Conditions on the Operation of Registrars of .rs Domains, the Price-list modification is effective 1 June 2009.
    This Decision can be seen if you go to the Minutes from the 51st session of the Managing Board (minutes are available only in Serbian).

  • Competition for Director of RNIDS now open
    Belgrade, 23 April 2009 - RNIDS announces the competition for the Director of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names now open. The competition will last from 23 April 2009 to 11 May 2009. For additional information, please click here.

  • Domains made available from lists of domains reserved for needs of Republic of Serbia and new mini-mini land rush
    Belgrade, 15 April 2009 - Domains that have been reserved until now for the needs of Republic bodies, which they are no longer interested in, will be made available according to the land rush procedure from 18th May 2009 at noon.
    A new List of domains reserved until 15 April 2010 for the needs of the Republic of Serbia and a List of domains reserved for the needs of cities and municipalities of the Republic of Serbia can be found here. Lists of domains that were reserved for the needs of the Republic of Serbia from 10 March 2008 tо 15 April 2009 are available here.

  • Renewal of .yu domain registration
    Belgrade, 20 February 2009 - Existing .yu domains which are not renewed until 2 March 2009 will be deactivated and will stop functioning on the Internet.
    The additional period for renewing .yu domains will begin on 3 March 2009 and end on 30 April 2009. If a .yu domain is renewed within this period, the domain will be reactivated on the Internet.
    Remaining .yu domains, which are not renewed until 30 April, will be permanently deleted from the Register on 4 May 2009.
    Additional information can be found here.

  • Web server problems
    We are informing the public that the Website of RNIDS [www.rnids.rs] was temporarily unavailable on Sunday, 1 March 2009. There is reasonable doubt that this problem occurred as a result of malicious activities of irresponsible Internet users.

    Only the Website of RNIDS was temporarily unavailable, while the services for .rs domain registration through registrars and major DNS servers for .rs and .yu domains were functioning without any interruptions.

    Our computer forensic investigation team is currently conducting an in-depth analysis of the compromised machine. If the forensic analysis shows that the server was compromised on purpose, RNIDS will file a lawsuit against alleged perpetrators for endangering the service of vital importance to the public, according to provisions of the Law on the organisation and authority of state bodies for fighting high-technology crime.

  • Session of RNIDS Assembly
    Belgrade, 18 February 2009 - A regular annual Assembly session of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) will be held on Saturday, 28 February 2009 at the Holiday Inn hotel in Belgrade. Assembly members will discuss the balance sheet of RNIDS and ratify the operational and financial plans for 2009. They will also discuss a proposal of the working group for documentation and elect new members of the Managing Board.
    The session will begin at 11 o'clock.

  • New director of RNIDS
    Belgrade 14 January 2009 - At a meeting held on 13 January 2009, the Managing Board of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names appointed a new director of RNIDS, Zoran Perović, the recent Director of Wholesale and Multimedia in Telekom Srbija.

    Zoran Perović graduated from the School of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, Department of Telecommunications. He finished a training for management and business relations. Mr. Perović was employed in the leading positions in several local companies and he spent some time in Ericsson, Spain. He speaks English and German. He is married, with two kids.
    Biography

    Until now, activities of the Acting Director of RNIDS were successfully performed by Ms. Mirjana Tasić, one of the major advocates and key founders of RNIDS.

  • The last and the first
    Belgrade 09 January 2009 - One more member joined a large family of the Serbian National Register or Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) on the New Year's Eve.
    Domain teofilofici.rs was registered at 7:04 pm in Belgrade. This is the last domain registered in 2008.
    The New Year began in a similar fashion: the first domain (smsoglasi.in.rs) was registered at 3:08 pm. The same trend continued on Christmas when two domains were registered: beogradski-rent-a-car.rs and panalytical.rs.

  • Invitation to municipalities to register domains
    Belgrade 24 December 2008 - The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) and the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities have initiated a joint public campaign to remind more than a hundred municipalities to register their .rs domains.
    We have invited 36 registrars to contact in the days to come administrations in towns and municipalities that have still not registered .rs domains and ask them to do so in due date. Enclosed with a letter to registrars is a list of municipalities without the new .rs domain.
    Two organisations intend to invite authorities through media to perform this significant task as soon as possible. This will make it simple for local self-governments to present themselves online. Otherwise, somebody else may rent their domain and use it for their own purposes.

  • Special meeting of RNIDS held
    Belgrade 8 December 2008 - The special meeting of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) was held on 7 December 2008 at the Holiday Inn hotel in Belgrade. During the ceremony, registrars received licenses-certificates. Apropos 35 years of existence of the Serbian Association of IT Experts, its President Nikola Marković handed over a Thank You Letter to the President of the Managing Board of RNIDS, Sima Ivaneža.
    After an introduction of nominees, the Assembly elected two new members of the RNIDS Managing Board through secret ballot - Jelena Opačić from EUnet and Nenad Orlić from Madnett, who obtained a majority of the votes of those present.
    After several hours of the discussion, the Assembly ratified reports of the Managing Board and the Acting Director of RNIDS, as well as a rough financial plan for 2009, the report of the working group for transparency of operations, and amendments and additions to legal regulations of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names. It was agreed that a working group should be established to propose the liberalisation of rules defining domain registration.
    The Assembly was attended and greeted by Jovan Radunović, PhD, the President of the Managing Board of RATEL, Jelena Jovanović from the Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Nikola Marković, the President of the Serbian Association of IT Experts.

  • Special meeting of RNIDS on Sunday
    Belgrade 5 December 2008 - An special meeting of the Serbian Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) will take place on Sunday, 7 December 2008 at the hotel Holiday Inn in Belgrade. The RNIDS Assembly members will discuss the past achievements of its Director and Managing Board, ratify the operating and the financial plans for 2009, amend and modify legal regulations, elect new members of the Managing Board and determine strategic directions for the future operations of RNIDS. Licenses will be given to registrars at a ceremony shortly before the general meeting that will be attended by representatives of the Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Society, RATEL, the Serbian Chamber of Commerce and other institutions. The general meeting starts at 11 o'clock

  • 44,444th domain registered in Kruševac
    Belgrade, 2 December 2008 - On 1 December 2008 at 10:30 am, the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) registered the 44,444th domain (keln.edu.rs) in Kruševac.

  • Public Debate
    Belgrade, 17 November 2008 - Apropos the session of RNIDS Assembly scheduled for 7 December 2008, RNIDS opens a public debate on regulations that should be brought by RNIDS Assembly.
    Please, draft your objections and suggestions clearly and state the exact name of the regulation and article the modification or amendment of which you propose. The deadline for submitting your objections and suggestions is 24 November 2008. Please, email your objections and suggestions to javnarasprava@rnids.rs. All proposals received within the specified time period will be reviewed by the Working body for carrying out a public debate on regulations of RNIDS, established by the Managing Board. All regulations can be found at www.rnids.rs i.e. the following links:
      - General Terms and Conditions for Registration of .rs Domain Names: http://www.rnids.rs/files/list0029.pdf
      - General Conditions on the Operation of Registrars: http://www.rnids.rs/files/list0030.pdf
      - Rules on the Beginning of Operation of rsTLD Registry and the Termination of Operation of yuTLD Registry: http://www.rnids.rs/files/list0032.pdf
      - Rulebook on Arbitrage Proceedings for Settling Disputes Arising out of the Registration of .rs Domains: http://www.rnids.rs/files/list0031.pdf
      - Fund Rules of RNIDS: http://www.rnids.rs/files/docs0020.pdf
      - Rules on Operations of RNIDS Assembly: http://www.rnids.rs/files/Poslovnik-skupstina-RNIDS.pdf

  • .ac.rs domain delegated to Academic Network
    Belgrade, 6 November 2008 - The Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society of Serbia informed RNIDS that the management of the .ac.rs address space should be left to the Conference of the Universities of Serbia (Konus) which should determine conditions for domain registration for all accredited high-education institutions - faculties and institutes.
    The Conference of the Universities of Serbia has already decided that the University of Belgrade, representing the Academic Network from its establishment, is the legal entity to which this task should be entrusted. The Conference of the Universities of Serbia immeditately required that the procedure of migrating from the existing .ac.yu to the new .ac.rs domain should be prepared and carried out for all legal entities (31 faculties and institutes), without any limitations. Until the end of the year, the Accademic Network of Serbia must define rules and submit them to Konus for ratification.

  • Competition for Director of RNIDS Now Open
    Belgrade, 4 November 2008 - RNIDS announced an open competition for the DIRECTOR of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names which will be active from 4 November 2008 until 21 November 2008.
    Additional information about the competition can be found here.

  • Farewell to .yu domain, .yu domain extension for the interested
    Belgrade, 31 October 2008 - For all companies and associations which have not yet migrated to the .rs domain and still use the .yu domain, the additional registration period will last from 3 November 2008 until 2 March 2009. After that period, unrenewed .yu domains will stop functioning on the Internet.
    That, however, is not all: the additional term for renewing .yu domains will begin on 3 March 2009 and end on 30 April 2009. Those who renew their domains, will reanimate their Websites on the Internet; remaining .yu domains, which are not renewed by that date, will be permanently deleted from the register on 4 May 2009. Moreover, maintaining the .yu register of domain names, as well as providing information on .yu domains on the Internet will end on 30 September 2009, regardless of the renewal date. On the very day, .yu domains will stop functioning on the Internet for good!
    Unless a company or an association renews the registration of www.companyname.co.yu until 2 March 2009, its Website and e-mail will stop functioning on the Internet as of this date. In case the company decides to renew the registration of www.companyname.co.yu until 30 April 2009, its Website and e-mail will be reactivated on the Internet until the last day of using the .yu domain, i.e. 30 September 2009. Effective this date, we definately say farewell to the .yu domain. In short, in case the registration of a .yu domain is not renewed until 30 April 2009, all data will be permanently deleted on 4 May 2009.
    It is never too late even if you are a bit late. For all details regarding the registration of Internet domains, please contact any ISP, i.e. registar of .rs domains across Serbia. The list of all registrars can be found at www.rnids.rs.
    [Announcement]

  • RNIDS- member of CENTR
    Belgrade, 6 October 2008 - On 3 October 2008, at the 37th General Assembly of CENTR, i.e. the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries, the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) became a full member. By doing this, it became its 48th member. We sincerely believe that we will serve as an example to other organisations and associations as well as our country itself to do the same. For more details, please visit: https://www.centr.org/main/facetedBrowser/library?options=fts&activeNavPath=lib&ftsq=rnids

  • 40,000th .rs domain registered
    Belgrade, 29 September 2008 - The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) would like to inform the public that the 40.000th .rs domain (е-business.co.rs) was registered in Kovin, 15 days after the registration of the 35.000th one. In the meantime, RNIDS organised a mini land rush, the result being expected, though not so fast. We believe that such a growth of registered domains means a continuous growth of serious content on the Internet, i.e. the more interesting content of the local Internet for all its users, as well as a growth in the number of Internet users and online content, which will bring us closer to the rest of the world. RNIDS expects this tempo to continue and the 45.000th .rs domain to be registered soon.

  • Farewell to .yu domain campaign in September, October and further
    Belgrade, 25 September 2008 - RNIDS would like to remind all the interested that a campaign of renewing present .yu domains would be launched soon. The process of renewing the registration of present .yu domains will begin on 3 November 2008 and end on 2 March 2009. After this date, the .yu domains which are not renewed, will be deactivated and will not be visible online, meaning that all the Internet services for those domains (е-mail, web…) will stop functioning. The additional term for renewing .yu domain registrations will start on 3 March 2009 and end on 30 April 2009. If a .yu domain is renewed during that period, it will be reactivated on the Internet. The remaining .yu domains, which are not renewed, will be permanently deleted from the register on 4 May 2009. Maintaining the .yu register of domain names and advocating information on .yu domains on the Internet will end on 30 September 2009, regardless of the renewal date. On the very day, .yu domains will stop functioning on the Internet! On 15 September 2008 at noon, a free domain sale, without reservation, started. During the first 18 hours, a total of 2,756 domains were registered, so that on 16 September 2008 at 6:00 am, 37,749 .rs domains were registered. On 25 September 2008 at 6:00 am, 39,574 .rs domains were registered. RNIDS would like to inform the public that domains are still registered. We expect the trend of registering .rs domains to continue. [chart]

  • RNIDS LOGO CHOSEN
    Monday, 15 September 2008 - The RNIDS logo design public competition was launched on 14 July and closed on 8 August 2008. A total of 96 applications were submitted by designers and agencies from Serbia and surrounding countries.

    The applications were reviewed by the Logo Committee, consisting of:
    - Mr. Marko Suvajdžić, MS, President of the Logo Committee
    - Ms. Аleksandra Jovanić, MS, expert member of the Logo Committee
    - Mr. Vojislav Rodić, member of the Managing Board of RNIDS
    - Mr. Branislav Dobrosavljević, member of the Managing Board of RNIDS

    Initially, 11 works were short-listed by the Logo Committee, 6 of which qualified for the final. At the closing session, the Logo Committee chose the winner of the competition along with the projects which got awarded as the second and third best. 120,000 RSD were granted to award the winner along with additional 80,000 RSD for the creation of the Graphic Standards Book. The Second Award amounted to 40,000 RSD, whereas the Third Award equaled 20,000 RSD.
    The logo solution of Belgrade designer Siniša Subotić, under the code CD117, was chosen as the best one to be used in the future as RNIDS logo. The second best logo solution award was shared between Ivan Apostolski and Miroslav Vujović, whereas Marko Radeta was the third-seeded.
    Solutions:
    1st price (Siniša Subotić)
    2nd price (Ivan Apostolski i Miroslav Vujović)
    3th price (Marko Radeta)

  • 35.000th domain registered
    Belgrade, 15 September 2008 - The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names would like to inform the public that the 35.000th domain (biomedica.rs) was registered in Belgrade, during the so-called land rush, i.e. when it became possible to unrestrictedly buy domain names. We remind the public that the 30.000th domain was registered on 29 August of the current year. RNIDS hopes it will not wait long for the 40.000th domain registration.

  • Press Release: Prolonging .yu domain registration and finalising its transition to .rs domain
    The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names would like to inform the Internet users that the process of migrating from the .yu domain to the new national .rs domain is entering its final phase. Until 10 September 2008, present .yu domain owners have the priority when registering the same .rs domain names which were reserved for them. The Priority right expires on 10 September 2008 at noon. All unused reservations of .rs domains will become available to the general public on 15 September 2008 at noon. In reality that means that if a company which has a registered www.companyname.co.yu domain does not use its Priority right to register www.companyname.co.rs until 10 September 2008, then anyone can register www.companyname.co.rs as of 15 September 2008. In this way, the company risks that someone else freely registers this domain and creates a site with the address www.companyname.co.rs, or uses е-mail addresses ending in @companyname.co.rs. We would also like to inform the general public that it would be possible to renew the present .yu domain registrations from 3 November 2008 to 2 March 2009. After this term, the .yu domains which have not been renewed will be deactivated and will stop functioning on the Internet. In practice that means that if a company does not use the possibility to renew the registration of its www.companyname.co.yu domain until 2 March 2009, its Website and electronic mail will stop functioning on the Internet, as of that day. The additional term for renewing the .yu domain registrations starts on 3 March 2009 and ends on 30 April 2009. If the .yu domain is renewed within the additional term, it will be reactivated on the Internet. The remaining .yu domains, which are not renewed within the specified time period, will be permanently deleted from the register on 4 May 2009. Maintaining the .yu domain register and propagating information on .yu domains on the Internet will cease on 30 September 2009, regardless of the renewal date. On the very day, all .yu domains will stop functioning on the Internet!
    For all details regarding the registration of Internet domains, please contact any .rs domain registrar across Serbia. The list of all registrars can be found at www.rnids.rs.

  • 48 HOURS LEFT Monday, 8 September 2008 - RNIDS would like to inform the public that only 48 hours are left until the completion of the re-registration of .yu domains with the Priority Right. According to estimates, approximately 5,000 companies in Serbia have not used that right yet. There is a threat that these companies lose their online identity.
    The priority registration of .rs domains expires on Wednesday at noon, when the Priority Right for registering .rs and .co.rs. domains will be gone, whereas effective 15 September of the current year, all domain names from the .YU register not registered in the new .RS registrer, will be available for registration.
    Until 9:00 am of this very day, a total of 31,980 domains have been registered, 17,048 of which have been re-registered. In all, there were approximately 40,000 .yu domains. [View Graphs]

  • Invitation for press conference in Belgrade On Wednesday, 3 September 2008, the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names organises a press conference in Media Center in Belgrade, 9 Milentija Popovića St (Sava Centre), at 11 am, named Farewell to .yu domain - 7 more days, due to the .yu domain re-registration process and the ending of the transition period. Members of the Managing Board of RNIDS, as well as its Acting Director will be talking at the press conference.

  • 30,000th domain registered
    Belgrade, 29 August 2008 - The 30,000th domain [penzionifondovi.co.rs] was registered today in Novi Sad. The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names would like to remind you that the 25,000th domain was registered on 8 July 2008 so that the number of registered .rs domains increased by a sixth in 50 days. RNIDS believes that such a trend, if not better, is likely to continue in days and months to come.

  • Commencement of .rs domain registration
    Belgrade, 28 February 2008 - The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) would like to inform the local and international public that the registration process of new Internet domain names of the Republic of Serbia with the .rs extension will commence on Monday, 10 March 2008 at noon. RNIDS will accept requests for the registration of new .yu domain names until Friday, 29 February 2008 at noon. After this date the registration of new .yu domain names will no longer be possible. All .yu domain names registered until the specified date will continue to function normally at least until 30 September 2009. The registration of new .rs domains will be conducted through 27 Serbian companies, accredited by RNIDS as the registrars of .rs domain names. A list of all the registrars of .rs domain names, as well as detailed rules and procedures regarding the .rs domain registration and a transition from .yu to .rs is available at our Website, under 'Rules' and 'List of Registrars'.

  • Invitation for press conference Belgrade, 27 August 2008 - On Thursday, 28 August 2008, the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names will organise a press conference at the Press Centre of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce, 23 Terazije, 8th floor, at 11 am, due to the ending of the transition to the .rs domain and extension of the .yu domain registration process. Members of the Managing Board of RNIDS will be talking at the press conference.

  • RNIDS logo design competition now open
    Belgrade, 4 July 2008 - As of today, 4 July, until 8 July 2008, RNIDS launches a logo design competition. What RNIDS wants to achieve through the contest is an easily recognisable and visually efficient logo. All candidates with necessary skills are invited to participate in the contest. For more details on the competition, please click here.

  • Press release of the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names from press conference held on 20 June 2008
    Belgrade, 20 June 2008 - A total of 23,668 domains have been registered to date, 20 June 2008, i.e. 103 days from the beginning of .rs domain registrations. The trend of, primarily, .rs domain registrations is expected to continue. Being the national and the shortest domain, .rs is obviously the most interesting domain to the Internet community. RNIDS also hopes to intensify the registration of .gov.rs domains after negotiations with the Public Administration. This will mark the end of the association of Serbia with the .yu domain, which will also have advantages for us as users of state services. RNIDS would also like to invite registrants of .yu domains to accelerate the process of migrating to the .rs domain so that the Transition Commission, registrars and RNIDS can finalise the transition from .yu to .rs without any problems to those who use the Internet as a business tool. We also made a promise at the conference that until 1 August 2008 the public would be informed about the manners of using .yu domains after 10 September 2008. RNIDS also states that the 25,000th registered domain will get a free annual registration. Media will be timely informed about the domain registered as the 25,000th one. With this symbolic action, RNIDS wishes to mark a fast and secure growth of the local Internet. The next domain which will receive the same treatment will be the 50,000th registered domain. Also, during summer RNIDS plans to prepare, together with its registrars, a thorough campaign plan for the Internet use promotion.

  • Call for reporting disputable .yu domains
    Belgrade, 9 June 2008 - The Transition Commission of RNIDS would like to invite Registrars and the Internet community to take a more active part in reporting disputable .yu domains. Timely detecting and solving problems connected with the .yu register will ensure that there will be no damaged parties on 10 September, when all unregistered .yu domains will become available for registration. Meetings of the Transition Commission are held at least twice a week. The aim of the Commission and RNIDS is to enable pre-registration of the largest possible number of disputable .yu domains before the final deadline.

  • 22,000 .rs domains registered
    Belgrade, 4 June 2008 - Today at noon, 22,000th .rs domain was registered. RNIDS hopes that the registration process will continue at the same pace. Local companies and citizens have realisesd the fact that, in the modern world, neither legal entities nor physical persons exist without their Internet address.

  • 20,000 .rs domains registered
    Belgrade, 22 May 2008 - A total of 20,134 .rs domains have been registered until 20 May 2008, at 01:00 pm, i.e. 72 days after the commencement of the registration process. This data shows that the Internet community is eager to begin using the new national domain as soon as possible. This trend is expected to continue. Statistics on the number of registered domains, updated on a daily basis, can be found at www.rnids.rs. The process of registering the new .rs domain and replacing the old national domain began on 10 March. In the period of six months from this date, owners of old .yu domains have the Priority Right to register the same domain names with the .rs prefix.

  • Results of .rs domain registrations after a month
    Belgrade, 11 April 2008 - On the first day of registration, 7,000 domains were registered and a total of 15,460 domains were registered during the first month of registration. More than half of these domains (7,600 in total) were registered in the .rs address space of the highest level. Physical persons, who got the possibility to register the national Intеrnеt domain, registered 20% of the total number of registered domains. 1,500 domains were registered in the new .in.rs address space, showing a great interest for the registration of these highly available domains. Somewhat less than 5 months are left for registrants of current .yu domains to use their right and register the same .rs domain name. After 10 September 2008, domains booked during the transition period will become available for registration to all interested parties. From the total number of registered domains, approximately 25% are domains registered during transition by registrants of existing .yu domains, whereas the rest are brand new Intеrnеt domains. There are approximately 40,000 old .yu domains, about half being active, which can be used at least until 30 September 2009. RNIDS has also established a Transition Commission, which started handling appeals for the registration of domains during transition in cases when the registrant of a .yu domain is not an active legal person any longer. The process of registering .rs domains is performed by registrars. There are 34 registrars at the moment.

  • Report on the first day of .rs domain registrations
    Belgrade, 10 March 2008 - The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS, www.rnids.rs) would like to inform the public that the new national domain of Serbia .RS successfully started functioning on Monday, 10 March 2008. Twenty-seven companies authorised to perform .rs domain registrations started off the registration process at noon. A total of 6,800 domains were registered on the first day, until 05:00 pm. The majority of these domains, i.e. about a half of them, are domains registered by citizens, companies and other interested parties directly in the .rs address space. About 35% of domains were registered in the .co.rs address space. During the first five hours of registration, 850 citizens or almost 12% of citizens used the possibility of registering domains within the new address space .in.rs, dedicated to citizens. During the next six months, owners of old .yu domains have the Priority Right to register the same domain names within the .rs domain. RNIDS would like to invite citizens, companies and other interested parties to use this right. RNIDS will continue to inform the public regularly about the process of registering new national domains. A press-conference will be organised until the end of the week, to present results of activities of the new national register during the first several days. The information about the date and time of the conference will be published subsequently. 

  • As of today, 10 March 2008, at noon, the .rs domain registration officially started
    The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) today officially commenced the process of .rs domain registrations. So far, the registration process has been very successful. All other relevant information will be posted subsequently. 

  • Testing accredited registrars of .rs domain
    Belgrade, 14 December 2007 - The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) would like to inform the public that from 10 to 20 December it will conduct the process of testing 24 local companies who have applied to perform services of accredited registrars of .rs domains. However, the process of entering .rs domains into the central registry of RNIDS and the process of transition from .yu to .rs domains have not been yet officially opened. During the following couple of weeks, the Managing Board of RNIDS is expected to bring a decision on the beginning of entering domains into the central registry of .rs domains and the opening of the process of transition from .yu to .rs domains. The public will be informed about this in timely manner. RNIDS would like to stress that after the process of domain registration has been published, all accredited registrars will start offering domain registration services at the same time. Until then, clients can apply for registering desired .rs domains with accredited registrars but their requests will be sent for registration with RNIDS on the date when the register of .rs domains initiates its operations, which is expected after the first half of January 2008. Ten days before the beginning of .rs domain registration, RNIDS will stop receiving requests for registering new .yu domains. All .yu domains, which have been registered until then, will continue to function normally at least until 30 September 2009. Once the registration of .rs domains begins, current owners of .yu domains will have a priority in the first six months to register the same .rs domain name. All domain names which have not been registered until now with .yu extension will be immediately available for registration with .rs extension. Clients will submit their registration requests through accredited registrars. A list of all accredited registrars of .rs domains, as well as more detailed rules regarding the registration procedure and transition from .yu to .rs domains can be seen on www.rnids.rs. RNIDS will inform the public on time about dates determined for the end of registering new .yu domains and the beginning of registering .rs domains, as well as other significant deadlines. 

  • Twenty-four applications for accredited registrars of .rs domains arrived
    Belgrade, 23 November 2007 - The first round of applying for accredited registrars of .rs domains was finished at 04:00pm on Friday, 23 November. RNIDS received the applications of 24 interested companies throughout Serbia. What follows is a complete list of companies (according to the order of applying): EUnet d.o.o. (Belgrade), Pakom d.o.o. (Niš), YUBC System a.d. (Belgrade), Gama Electronics d.o.o. (Belgrade), Loopia d.o.o. (Niš), AbsolutOK d.o.o. (Belgrade), Beocity d.o.o. (Belgrade), Madnet d.o.o. (Pančevo), CRI d.o.o. (Belgrade), TippNet d.o.o. (Subotica), StanCo d.o.o. (Petrovac), SezamPro Hosting - Hosting d.o.o. (Belgrade), Verat d.o.o. (Belgrade), NordNet d.o.o. (Subotica), Neobee.net d.o.o. (Novi Sad), NiNet Company d.o.o. (Niš), HostingMania d.o.o. (Belgrade), SBB d.o.o. (Belgrade), BeoTelNet-ISP d.o.o. (Belgrade), SCnet d.o.o. (Belgrade), Telekom Srbija a.d. (Belgrade), VTkom d.o.o. (Novi Sad), Public Enterprise of PTT Communications "Srbija"(Belgrade) and MediaWorks d.o.o. (Belgrade). At a meeting held on 23 November, the Managing Board of RNIDS brought a decision to offer the Contract for performing a .rs domain registration to all the above mentioned companies who had submitted Application forms. A final list of companies which sign the Contract will be published on the site of RNIDS after 3 December 2007, while the Managing Board of RNIDS will decide on the starting date of .rs domain registration for end users during December 2007.  

  • First invitation for applying for accredited registrars of .rs domains
    Belgrade, 16 November 2007 - On 16 November, the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) invited legal entities located in Serbia to apply for acquiring the status of accredited registrars of .rs domains. Organisations interested in performing a .rs domain registration can get acquainted with the Conditions and Procedures for Applying on the site of RNIDS (www.rnids.rs). Application forms can be submitted by 23 November 2007, until 04:00pm. On 26 November, RNIDS will send the Contract for signing to first candidates for accredited registrars. The deadline for sending back the signed Contract and paying determined fees is 3 December 2007. Candidates for accredited registrars should pass the testing procedure until the mid December 2007. The next round of applying for accredited registrars of .rs domains should take place during January 2008. The Managing Board of RNIDS is expected to bring a decision on the starting date for registering .rs domains for end users during December 2007. 

  • RNIDS signed agreement with ICANN
    Los Angeles, 29 October 2007 - The RNIDS Assembly ratified the Letter of Intent with ICANN, signed by a Serbian delegation at 30th International Public ICANN Meeting (held in Los Angeles from 28 October to 2 November). The signing ceremony was attended by Ms. Mirjana Tasić (the previous .yu domain administrator and the current Acting Director of RNIDS), Vint Cerf (the 'father of the Internet’ and the President of the ICANN Executive Board) and Paul Twomey (CEO ICANN), as well as Slobodan Marković (a member of the Managing Board of RNIDS and ICANN ccNSO Council) and Vladimir Aleksić (from the ICANN Fellowship program). The content of the letters exchanged between ICANN and RNIDS can be found here. To see the Official ICANN Release, please follow the link. If you wish to see photos from the signing ceremony, as well as details from the official dinner, organised in the Sony Studio in honour of Vint Cerf, who is leaving ICANN after having spent seven years there, please visit this address.