2009 General Assembly and publication of the 2008 Activity Report

The AFNIC annual General Assembly took place on 11 June 2009.

Amongst other things, it was the occasion for presenting the annual Activity Report for the previous year.

2008 was a year marked by significant growth for AFNIC: with more than 480,000 new domain names in 2008, activity has increased by nearly 33%.

The report also covers the highlights of 2008, including:

• on the technical front, the work carried out in preparation for the implementation of the EPP registration protocol and reinforced security;


• on the legal side, the framing of conditions for access to the list of domains and the launch of measures to combat obvious breaches of the decree of 6 February 2007;


• on the R&D front, involvement in ambitious projects such as the Internet of Things;


• on the marketing front, pushing forward research, such as the for French domain name industry Report and trend analysis (this latter showing that the .fr domain name is increasingly the gold-standard for communicating in French to the French);


• and, finally, on the communications and international-exchange front, continuing to develop partnerships, and participation in and increased support for international meetings - in particular the hosting of the ICANN Paris event in June 2008.

Download the Activity Report

Activity Report 2008 (2,3 Mo)
URL: http://www.afnic.fr/afnic/presentation/activite_en or http://www.afnic.fr/data/divers/public/afnic-activity-report-2008.pdf

Archive of Activity Reports.
URL : http://www.afnic.fr/afnic/presentation/activite_en

About AFNIC

(Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération )

Non-profit organization, AFNIC is in charge of the administrative and technical management of the .fr (France) and .re (Reunion Island) Internet domain names.
AFNIC brings together public and private members: representatives from the French government, Internet users and Internet Service Providers (Registrars).
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