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"Online shopping at .pt: secure for you, safe for the planet” is the motto of this campaign, which aims to emphasize the message that buying from .pt sites is a guarantee of trust and security. ...

Did you know that only 25% of the cybersecurity industry is made up of women? ...

On July 19, 2024, the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) Charter of Rights and Principles in Digital Environments was signed in São Tomé. This document, which is declaratory and non-binding, is a necessity. On the one hand, it reaffirms Member States' commitment to implement declarations made in the past and, on the other hand, it validates their commitment to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals....

Portugal is highlighted in the Report as one of the Member States where people are most familiar with the national supervisory authority for data protection (Portuguese Data Protection Authority)....

Ransomware is a type of malware (such as virus, trojans, etc.) that infects and manipulates users' computer systems so that they are unable to use some or all the data stored....

It is noteworthy that in this edition, .PT financially supported the travel and accommodation of a young computer engineering student from IST, who actively participated in the event along with the YouthDIG community....

From June 10 to 13, Kigali hosted the 80th edition of the Policy Forum, which included 109 sessions, 1581 participants (957 in person and 624 online), representing 123 countries/territories....

Online Company 2.0 allows for reducing bureaucracy and simplifying the process of creating companies....

The document resulting from Netmundial+10 identifies principles and maps out a potential guide for what internet and digital governance could or should be, and should be seen as a possible path to follow for the processes being conducted by the United Nations in the context of the GDC and WSIS+20. It was another example of the multistakeholder model at work....

Today, April 27th, we celebrate the World Design Day by sharing a personal reflection on the importance of including accessibility and equality in design as mandatory criteria in the creative process. I will also try to convey my personal experience at the “Multimodal solutions to foster accessibility in digital products and services” workshop by DIGITALEUROPE....

The project involves the creation of the "European Interoperable Portal", a one-stop shop to encourage the sharing and reuse of reliable, high-quality interoperability solutions between the various public administrations, as well as reinforced mechanisms to support innovation and policy development, including training and regulatory test environments to develop, test and extend solutions. ...

Now imagine sharing a house with these 16! There are days when they realise that we're going backwards and our spirits are only calmed by repeating one of our great pledges: "We will leave no one behind, We will leave no one behind" - believe me, it helps after 10 times....

The Data Act now establishes that connected products (IoT), as well as the provision of their related services, must be designed, manufactured and provided in such a way that data relating to that product and/or service is accessible, by default and in an easy, secure and free way to the user, who can share this same data with third parties....

Being a more informed consumer is becoming more and more important, online shopping is where we are most exposed and vulnerable and therefore requires our utmost attention so that we don't fall victim to fraudulent sales and cyber-attacks, which can jeopardise the privacy of our data. It's important to check that the website is credible, that the organisation is identified, that it has Terms and Conditions, return policies and mechanisms for mediation and out-of-court arbitration of conflicts....

Hello?? Listen!! Hmm…I don't think anyone is listening… this universe is so big, and my closest neighbor Mercury is always talking to the Sun and doesn't have time for me....

Yesterday, January 28, 2024, Data Protection Day was celebrated, established by the Council of Europe in reference to the date of signing of the first international legal instrument on data protection, Convention 108 of the Council of Europe, which took place on January 28, 1981...

The next big challenge for AI could be the data quality processing and the ability of companies to develop AI models with longevity and flexibility....

By being aware of your rights and the precautions you need to take, you will be better prepared to shop online with confidence and security. Take advantage of the convenience offered by online shopping, but always be careful to protect your personal and financial information....

This is the key for Portugal to position itself, with clarity and strategic thinking, at the heart of this objective that should belong to all Europeans. This will ensure that we help define a path of greater opportunities and gains for all. In this way, we ensure that we are, in the way that best defends our interests, laying the foundations for the future we want....

The implementation of Zero Trust will be absolutely critical in the coming years for organizations to ensure that they can mitigate the severe impacts of cyberattacks....

Our participation in CENTR is fundamental as it allows us to be at the forefront of best practices in domain registration and management, benefiting all .pt Registrants, Registrars, and partners....

If 2022 was the year of "Stolen house, locked doors", 2023 and the following years will have to be about "Prevention is better than cure"....

We have reinforced the Business Service team, with a Key Account Manager profile, which assumes commitments that it will seek to deepen, through a close relationship, with the aim of creating a solid foundation for this collaboration, through an approach focused on four main dimensions...

And in the end, what remains? Above all the friendships, the times well spent, the knowledge acquired and the systems well managed. ...

This new generation will enable integration between digital and real objects and environments, and enhanced interactions between humans and machines, so the EC's goal is to enable open, interoperable and innovative virtual worlds that can be used safely and with confidence by all. This new strategy also aims to accelerate the European Union's (EU) technological transition and to leverage EU leadership in virtual worlds....

EuroDIG 2023 offers a unique opportunity for the EuroDIG multi-stakeholder community to discuss and reflect on the impact that two key UN processes (GDC and WSIS+20) will have on digital transformation...

On 5 June, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, will present the UN Secretary-General's Policy Brief on the Global Digital Compact - an Open, Free and Secure Digital Future for All....

In this sense, the greatest value that any organisation can have is in its people. They are the true leader, they are the ones who "wear the jersey" and foster the values and philosophy by which an organisation is governed. As such, it is essential to create cultural foundations that link these same people to the organisational culture and business objectives....

Today is the World Portuguese Language Day, having been celebrated for the first time in 2020, after consecration by UNESCO in November 2019. .PT is associated with Portuguese culture and language....

Taking the example of the theft of a car vs the illegal viewing of a football match, how many of us know a car thief? Exactly...none. And pirates who illegally access audiovisual content? Right... The idea to retain should be that it is not because it is not aimed at a tangible good or that it is a matter of large organisations that it is less criminal, or because it is a victimless crime as it is commonly said, which is not even true, there are thousands of people who live from audiovisual production, this assimilation of principle comes from the base, it comes from digital education. ...

The new facilities of the association that manages the .pt domain are sustainable, modern, and open to society, creating new dynamics in the digital ecosystem in Portugal....

We start by identifying where both directives intersect, understanding the rationale behind the process which presided over the revision of the NIS, and which resulted in the publication of the NIS 2. Let us now look at those which are the most striking changes between both diplomas, especially under the lens of the .pt top level domain name registry....

Under the slogan “Business without a website is like tennis without a racket!”, we have launched a campaign on our digital channels and on the media partners of the event, radio (RFM, Rádio Renascença and Mega Hits) and television (TVI/CNN Portugal)...

Domains have a very significant impact on SEO, being one of the key factors of any project on the internet. Therefore, to register or buy a domain, there are some factors to take into account, among which I highlight the domain extension chosen....

Have you noticed that most of the sites you consult in Portugal end in .pt? And have you ever wondered why this is and why so many websites use this domain?...

That's why today we can say that our desk is the globe, the virtual village that is the world has become even closer, a digital ecosystem has been created that has changed our way of seeing the working world and organisations, and all this change is based on a relationship of trust between the organisation and the employee. Greater freedom entails greater responsibility and a mature respect for work, the mantra to retain is that greater freedom entails exactly the same proportion greater responsibilities....

Trying to be brief, and not falling into the temptation of being repetitive, we will not list again the topics which were brought to discussion at this 17th edition of the Internet Governance Forum, IGF, since they were precisely those we addressed in our national initiative, which took place last November 3rd and whose messages were prepared, made available at www.governacaointernet.pt, and later distributed in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia and headquarters of the African Union....

.PT is running a campaign to support the National Team at Lisbon, Porto and Faro airports (departures), and at the ATM network of mainland Portugal and islands, during the 2022 World Cup. ...

This is a role of Internet governance and its results can be enhanced through a joint action between the countries that officially adopt the Portuguese language. We need to broaden the debate on the impacts of the Internet on Portuguese speakers and the possible positive effects of a unified and collaborative action....

When we think of emerging technologies and their use, it is common to refer to data ethics and AI ethics. However, it is extremely important to talk about digital literacy and the importance of acquiring digital skills to deal with an increasingly technological society....

The new CONFIO platform is now available! More agile, robust and secure brings a novelty!...

This European and national framework already seems to be promoting some changes, starting with the advertisements we (necessarily) see promoting cars with a more sustainable performance, detergents with biodegradable ingredients, furniture with a circular life, recycled and second-hand clothes, etc. There are many corporate websites with policies of environmental responsibility and reports on the success of the measures adopted to ensure compliance with the duties of diligence in matters of environmental protection....

In the project Agarrados à Net, this is what we do: we help parents and educators to better manage the time that children and young people spend in front of screens, so that these are no longer reasons for tantrums, shouting, screaming and conflicts....

At .PT we keep up the pace as usual... At the beginning of July we launched the 5th edition of PTSOC News, where you can find out more about passkeys and the next evolution of passwords, we participated as a jury in the Apps for Good Regional Meetings, and we took part in the Switch to Innovation Summit, which brought together more than 60 speakers and projects to debate the challenges of social innovation and digital inclusion. ...

A .PT initiative, with the support of Google.Org, which integrates a set of actions with the aim of helping to accelerate economic recovery through technology, digital tools and free training/mentoring ...

Not only Blockchain can help DNS, but DNS can help Blockchain as well...

There is a doctrinal challenge that must be debated in all its aspects and spaces: the implementation of technologies and procedures related to cybersecurity takes time and requires a lot of effort. We must be aware that the trend is clear as regards the increase in threats in the coming years....

These days, the “Portuguese” internet home has opened its doors: .PT, which is responsible for registering and maintaining domain names (internet addresses) under the two-letter code that identifies Portugal on the Internet, .pt, has its own headquarters that will soon be officially baptized or inaugurated....

Less than 4 years later, here we are celebrating the registration of the 1.5 million domain, after a year of 2021 in which we grew more than in previous years and put us on the first place of the podium of the fastest growing domains in Europe....

Cyberspace has brought a greater awareness of the right to access information and knowledge, allowing the perception of cyberspace as a new common space - Global Common - joining the existing ones. ...

In 1971, the highly skilled scientists developing the ARPANET network - the predecessor of the Internet - saw the following message appear on their computers:"I'm the Creeper: catch me if you can". This was the first computer virus in history, which was called the "Creeper"....

If your business relies solely on social media, this "blackout" was a wake-up call. Social media should be important for your company's digital strategy, but a website should be the starting point to boost your ideas and business. Whoever has a brand, must have a "home" for it. And a website should be the "home" of your business....

For those who daily analyze domain names or, as a result of a competence that derives from the law or from an administrative decision, verify online content, the task is inglorious. The protection of legal interests and goods such as security, public order and health, and the trust that we all crave when we go online, can easily collide with other rights enshrined in the Constitution. To know how to enforce them is, indeed, only for some. ...

The registration of a domain requires the identification of a series of data, the intervention of various entities and the use of various protocols and specific software, which led to a specification of the terms used within this scope. .PT is no stranger to this situation and uses this technical dialect with similar entities, partners and final customers. For the latter, there may be an added difficulty in learning new terms and their meanings, and therefore the existence of glossaries that may help....

Today marks 5 years since the birth of the CONFIO trustmark, an initiative that emerged from a partnership between ACEPI, DECO and .PT, with the objective of bringing more trust, transparency, security and best practices in digital commerce, in particular, but also in internet usage in general...

2021 marks the 22nd System Administrator Appreciation Day, which is intended to recognise the role of system administrators and other IT workers around the world....

Initiatives such as Sitestar.pt, Apps for Good, NET Viva e Segura, Engenheiras por um dia or ENSICO have the support of .PT and this is our contribution so that our young people have more skills and qualifications, and so they can enjoy what digital has to offer...

We are still in a pandemic (although it is already easing), we have new people at .PT, we were called to contribute to the digital transition and the digital skills of the Portuguese, we have grown a lot in number of domains and in Confio stamps, we have seen our building, also BARRA BARRA, growing and soon becoming our new physical address, we are more and more recognized in Portugal, in the European Union and in global terms (only this week we shared our experience for Portuguese students, for the European Commission and for ICANN)....

When we set our passwords, we must think that this is the key to our digital home ...

What is Graphic Design? It is a creative process that conveys messages and concepts through images and texts that are often used simultaneously depending on the objective. This work in practice materializes in various areas, such as corporate identity (branding, logos), editorial design (books, magazines, newspapers), packaging design, signage and web design....

Today, as we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day, which marks the importance of protecting copyright and industrial property rights around the world, we will look at some so-called good practices, recently issued by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), regarding the registration and use of domain names that hypothetically infringe industrial property rights. We will also see how this same issue is dealt with in the framework of the .pt registry....

.PT supports institutions that guide its activity towards the defense and protection of abandoned animals. This is also a commitment that goes beyond what is our mission, it is a commitment to human values...

There is a vast number of websites that for many reasons stop being updated, both in terms of content and the software platforms that support them. As there are no resources allocated to update them, and as it is difficult to make the decision to turn them off because they provide important information, over time these websites raise problems due to security vulnerabilities and imply a permanent cost derived from the energy consumption of the machines that support them...

Na ausência de um conceito uniforme de consumidor, é seguro assumir que, verdadeiramente, consumidores somos todos nós! Todos os que, no mundo físico ou virtual, consumimos bens e serviços para fins não profissionais...

É um dia para relembrar que os direitos das mulheres são direitos humanos. Num ano tão difícil como aquele que estamos a atravessar, mais do que nunca importa assinalar esta data...

Two-character domain names have a set of characteristics that make them especially valuable and attractive, beacause, by their nature, they are rare and have a limited spectrum (around 2300 possible combinations in the Latin alphabet), they are easily memorized, easy to type and break language barriers. These characteristics have even led to names like "we.com" or "mi.com", like so many others, being sold for millions of dollars on the domain name market...

Driven by the pandemic, society had to guarantee and affirm its presence in the digital world, reinventing itself and transferring its business to the internet and e-commerce. This evolution is reflected, naturally, in the growth of .pt domains registration, a trend that is expected to continue in 2021...

Illegal content and DNS Abuse...

The new .pt Terms & Conditions (registration rules) take effect today. For the first time in our ccTLD, the entire review of the articles was based on a collaborative, open and participatory work ...

Today we celebrate the Data Protection Day, instituted in 2006 by the Council of Europe, on the same day that commemorates the opening of “Convention 108”, the first international legal instrument on the protection of natural persons in relation to the processing of their personal data, and in this January 28th celebrates 40 years of existence...

And there is only one power capable of doing so ... the same power that made us overcome 2020, the power of people. The .PT has already proved how powerful its people are and how important it is to invest on people to ensure a strong culture, united and highly motivated teams. It is a personal pride for me to follow your evolution and it is a clear example that it is worthwhile investing on people...

And what does all this have to do with the book I am reading? It has everything. It is an attentive call to what each of us can do for the other and for society. And that every day, without discouragement or giving up. ...

Portuguese companies are increasingly their presence in digital. However, despite the improvements shown in the study, there are still 40% of Portuguese companies that do not yet have an online presence and companies with an internet presence, only 82% said they have their own domain and 76% said they have one or more sites developed....

The troubled year of 2020 comes to an end (finally!) and 2021 is already on the prowl, ready to rock the digital world and to give the community of digital operators a lot to do...

It is known, Christmas is for the little ones. At .PT we have reached the age of majority a long time ago, some more than others, it is true. Our HR area is assertive in numbers and confirms that today we are a team of 23 people, with an average age of around 38 years...

A few years ago, at a conference about the Internet, I heard the testimony of a European judge about a child pornography case that he had tried and that left me thinking about the interaction between justice and the Internet....

We all left with a mark of this pandemic, and as Freud used to say, “Unexpressed emotions will never die”, so let's try not to be made of iron....

One of these days, in an interview, I was asked this question and I, defender of digital, confess that I took a break to think....

A Estratégia Portugal 2030 pretende ser um dos referenciais de planeamento das políticas públicas de promoção do desenvolvimento económico e social do país, facto particularmente relevante já que servirá de suporte à mobilização das respetivas fontes de financiamento nacionais e comunitárias....

If there is one thing that Covid-19 allows a cybersecurity analyst, it is to draw a parallel between health security and computer security (or the lack of them)...

Almost without realizing it, I spent 20 years of working in .PT. A trip that began on November 2, 2000, when November was written in capital letters (in Portuguese), smartphones did not exist (even mobile phones were a novelty), domain registration was done with forms sent on paper and the data entered manually, the site was informative and can be seen in the Portuguese Web archive here, and we reached 18,988 domains under .pt at the end of this year...

In the initial specification of the DNS, designed in the 1980s, when the Internet did not have the dimension we know today, no security concerns were incorporated. On the contrary, its design gives priority to aspects of effectiveness, efficiency and scalability. For this reason, the specification has some security vulnerabilities that have been exploited maliciously to induce errors in DNS resolution...

Today the stone in the shoe of many companies is not having an efficient process. And this efficiency is most often confused with team size, lack of money for hiring or purchasing software, in short, swelling of something that is no longer good...

The last decades have witnessed the development of educational competences that outline an optimistic picture of education in Portugal. In 1970, 25.7% of individuals were illiterate, having dropped to around 2% in 2018....

Choosing a domain name is one of the most important steps when you want to start a business or a personal project...

The importance of a good choice of a .PT domain name, whether for a constituted company/organization or for a start-up that intends to launch or increase its digital presence, will bring numerous advantages...

Five years ago, on September 23, 2015, LusNIC - Portuguese Language ccTLD's Association was born, resulting from a common desire and common needs of the competent entities for the management of the top-level domains of Portuguese speaking countries...

When DNS was invented, almost 35 years ago, the goal was to make the Internet grow. Security and privacy issues were not considered because almost nobody used the Internet yet....

Entre as centenárias paredes do Teatro Thália, que no dia se vestiram de tecnologia, não fossemos nós falar do digital, e com o apoio da Secretaria de Estado da Transição Digital, do Ministério da Economia e do Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e do Ensino Superior, organizámos uma sessão cujo título só por si já despertava alguma atenção: “Os portugueses e a Internet em tempo de pandemia”...

If you already have a registered domain name, probably your first thought, when reading the title, is that a domain name is enough and that registering more domains will only increase your company's annual costs, right?...

As Gabriel García Márquez used to say, " Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it". The time that we are living, one day will be remembered and also recounted, but that day has yet to come, immediately uncertainty is what we see and for that we try to reinvent the impossible in times of diversity. ...

The tradition has remained unchanged regarding the sale of Bolas de Berlim. But not only… ..We continued to watch the sale of countless counterfeit products by immigrants, invariably from Africa (the vast majority from Senegal and Morocco). And just like the Bolas de Berlim (these originals ...), bags, wallets, and counterfeit glasses, from prestigious brands, continued to be bought by vacationers. Neither with COVID-19 was there any truce in the world of ‘counterfeiting’, neither by those who do it, nor by those who sell and buy! ...

Motherhood has these things, it puts us to the test ... for a moment life outside is suspended and all the roles we learn to play are no longer of equal importance. At home, time has another meaning, on the one hand, the unique opportunity to invest time in what we like (and sometimes not even much), on the other, work and social life are simply suspended, stored in a drawer...

Forward slash... Where does this name come from? Older people will certainly remember the antipodes of the Internet. At that time, where the current search engines did not exist, whenever we changed addresses we said something like “The page is: http two dots slash www dot d n s dot pt”, and if we didn't submit the address exactly like this we wouldn't be able to go where it was supposed....

In a virtual world, where there are no faces and no physical space, how do you build trust between those who sell and those who buy?...

Despite the “bad” uses of the Internet, this is the best tool that Humanity has, and should be used to include, inform and improve the World. The Internet brings us closer, allows us to laugh and share life, and to work with people from all over the world (hello Australia!)....