In connection with the world's largest conference for urban innovation, Smart City Expo in Barcelona, 7-9 November, the Urban Twin Transition Center will be launched. The initiative will work closely with the Viable Cities innovation programme to help Swedish cities become climate-neutral.
The Swedish Internet Foundation and Netnod have published an expert guide for companies and organisations setting up or procuring DNS services.
The Swedish Internet Foundation has now invested in the Norwegian software company IQ Global AS, which is a leader in monitoring and managing domains and internet-related crime linked to domains. The investment is up to 20 percent of the company.
The Swedish Internet Foundation continues to be a pioneer in the domain name system, DNS. As the first country code top-level domain in the world, automation of technical information connected to DNSSEC and name servers has been made possible.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021, is one of the keynote speakers at the The Internet Days conference.
Zonemaster is a software package that validates the quality of a DNS delegation. It was developed via a collaborative project between the Swedish Internet Foundation and our French counterpart Afnic. The sole purpose of Zonemaster is to create a stronger and more secure domain name system. The service is developed as a free software and available to the general public.
Carl Piva appointed new CEO of the Swedish Internet Foundation, an independent, business-driven and non-profit organization, effective April 6, 2021.
Danny Aerts, CEO of The Swedish Internet Foundation, has informed the foundation's board that he will resign as CEO in August 2021. The work of recruiting a new CEO begins immediately.
The Swedish Internet Foundation is buying the majority in the software company MetaSolutions, which has developed cloud-based software that helps companies and organizations publish and manage linked and open data. The company was founded in 2011 by computer scientists Matthias Palmér and Hannes Ebner.
Loopia buys the Swedish Internet Foundation's registrar business .SE Direkt. As of mid-February, .SE Direkt's customers will have Loopia as registrar for their domains.
