CENTR and their vision for the future of the internet, David Curtin CEO of .ie and Polina Malaja, Policy Director at CENTR

CENTR recently announced its vision for the future of the internet in the form of a set of guiding principles for the next EU legislative mandate across Interoperability, Competition, Access & Cybersecurity, Fundamental rights, Online content, and Governance. To learn more about this Ronan recently spoke to David Curtin CEO of .ie and Polina Malaja, Policy Director at CENTR.

David and Polina spoke to Ronan about their background, what CENTR does, CENTR’s vision for the future of the internet and more.

More about CENTR:

CENTR is the association of European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries, such as .de for Germany or .ie for Ireland CENTR currently counts 50 full and 8 associate members – together, they are responsible for over 80% of all registered domain names worldwide.

The objectives of CENTR are to promote and participate in the development of high standards and best practices among ccTLD registries. Full membership is open to organisations, corporate bodies or individuals that operate a country code top level domain registry.

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