CENTR publishes simplification checklist for EU ccTLD rules
CENTR Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries The association of European country code domain registries. Full definition of CENTR released a Simplification Checklist outlining principles it wants applied to EU legislation affecting ccTLD manager The organization that runs a country code top-level domain. Full definition of ccTLD manager. The document was presented at CENTR’s 2026 General Assembly Policy Session to Thibaut Kleiner, Director at the European Commission’s DG CNECT. It covers cybersecurity, consumer protection, data protection, business data access, electronic identification, registry The central database and system of a top-level domain, or loosely the organization that runs it. Full definition of registry roles and Better Regulation, urging legal clarity ahead of the EU’s Digital Fitness Check.
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CENTR is a group representing country-code domain registries like .de or .fr. It published a checklist asking EU lawmakers to make rules simpler and clearer for these registries. The list was shown to a top European Commission official and covers topics like cybersecurity and data protection.