Eurid,the company behind .EU domain name,announced that it will attend the  the Ivaerk & Vaekst 2012 business start-up convention in Copenhagen,Denmark.The convention will be held from 14-15 September.

You can read the announcement after the jump :

“The .eu registry, EURid, is raising .eu visibility in Denmark by attending the Ivaerk & Vaekst 2012 business start-up convention in Copenhagen, Denmark from 14-15 September.

In Denmark, there are currently more than 36 000 .eu domain names registered to Danish businesses, organisations and individuals.

Across the European Union in Q1 2012, .eu registrations grew by 6.1% year on year showing that .eu is ideally suited for businesses with cross-border operations, enabling companies to express the fact that they are open for business in other EU markets.

EURid will be exhibiting at stand 107 where staff will be available to answer questions about getting started with .eu.

Event: Ivaerk & Vaekst 2012, Øksnehallen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Date: 14-15 September 2012

EURid’s exhibition stand: 107.

Asta Mineikyte and Niklas Jörgensen, EURid’s Regional Manager for Northern Europe and Liaison Manager for Denmark respectively, are attending the convention and will be available for interviews. “

There may be a case for governments having more say in the way the internet is run, EU digital commissioner Neelie Kroes told ZDNet last week, but — even if this were to happen — it would not necessitate giving the ITU more power.

“Of course there are voices saying it would be better with the UN [but] I’m not in favour of the line that, if you have a problem, you can only solve it in a new structure,” Kroes said, adding that it was first worth examining the calls for more government input.

“I still think that the remarks that are made [about giving governments a greater voice] can be included in a solution within the structure of today,” she said. “I’m not aware that that can’t be done, so I’m not willing to [favour] a new structure.”

The creation of the kiwi.nz second level domain will only cause confusion, the applicant for the .KIWI gTLD has said.

Tim Johnson, chief executive of Dot Kiwi Ltd told the New Zealand Herald approving kiwi.nz was not in the best interests of internet users “or in fact the internet in New Zealand”.

“Why would potential registrants want .kiwi.nz when they could have .KIWI?”

SaudiNIC has started a process of updating Whois details for .SA domain names, sending out requests to registrants to check and if necessary update their registrant details.

ICANN’s board of directors is set to approve مليسيا., the Arabic name for Malaysia, at a meeting next week, Domain Incite reported.

The Estonian Internet Foundation announced the public procurement for an audit of the code of the information systems (Domain Registry Software Security Audit) it uses, the organisation announced last week. The bid submission deadline is 10 September 2012.

Over to Ireland and the Irish Internet Association has announced the shortlist for this year’s Dot ie Net Visionary Awards and online voting is now open.

Aeroflot, the Russian airline, has won a dispute lodged with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center over the aeroflot.xxx domain name, however the original registrant does not agree with the ruling and is threatening to appeal.

Etisalat Information Services (eIS),announced recently the launching of the first arabic domain name for the Yellow Pages in the Middle East.

You can access the websites by typing yellowpages.ae or yp.ae in English,or by typing safhat-safraa.emarat in Arabic script.Etisalat launched the arabic domain name in order to make it easier to be used by arabic speakers.Therefore,those who are unfamiliar with Latin characters,can use from now on the Yellow Pages services.

“We are confident that our customers and users will have a better experience using the Yellow Pages of Etisalat, be it online, print or mobile. This initiative is part of our quality commitment and going forward, we will look to continually improve the utility and convenience of our online platforms,” said Rashid Al Naqbi,General Manager of Etisalat Information Services.

Etisalat also worked to improve the Yellow Pages website .The database has been updates,the speed has been enhanced,there are more information available on the listings and more maps have been added to the search results page .