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The majority of items published in the 8th issue of the Internet Inside journal, which came out on April 18, deal with the DNS naming system.

On April 3, Yekaterinburg hosted an annual meeting of the local telecom community to discuss services for telecom operators and ISPs based on MSK-IX solutions.

On March 31, 2018, the Moscow arena of the Cherenkov Spartak academy hosted the nationwide charity futsal tournament, the 10th Communications and IT Cup. The MSK-IX team joined the silver league after the group stage matches and won the first place.

On March 23, 2018, Commercial Director of MSK-IX Yevgeny Morozov took part in the roundtable, New Services and Opportunities of Internet Exchange (IX) Partnership, which focused on changing the role of traffic exchange points in the market, on developing new IX-based services, upgrading IX and increasing its profitability. The speaker shared his experience with the MSK-IX development path and its rapid transformation into a multi-service platform.

MSK-IX, a trusted element of the digital economy and the center of an active community of telecom professionals, has been awarded the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification Information technology – Security techniques – Information security management systems – Requirements. This certification is published by the International Standards Organization together with the International Electrotechnical Commission.

Between January 30 and February 1, Moscow’s Crocus Expo hosted the “CSTB: Telecom & Media’2018” Exhibition-Forum.

On December 7, the World Trade Center in Moscow hosted the 13th Peering Forum organized by MSK-IX. More than 900 participants registered to attend the event.

MSK-IX has launched a network service to improve DNS security thus becoming one of AS112 Project operators. Now MSК-IX members in Moscow can neutralize their excessive traffic sent to DNS root servers.

The Internet Inside journal's 7th edition has come out dedicated to peering and connectivity.

Between October 25-26, Moscow hosted a congress of the National (Russian) Association of TV and Radio Broadcasters. The event’s aim was to promote the development of the media environment, building modern television industry and increasing its competitiveness in terms of creativity, technology as well as commerce in the current economic circumstances in the industry and the country. The conference participants included representatives of the State Duma, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor), the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Media, the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network, federal and regional television and radio companies, telecommunications operators and producers, media market analysis companies, advertising agencies, content developers and aggregators, and international organizations involved in communications, radio and television.

MSK-IX enabled satellite television operators to back up their satellite signals between October 9 and 20, 2017 by connecting to its Medialogistics platform as part of the Sun Outage campaign.

ICANN Corporation has granted the joint stock company, Center of Network Cooperation MSK-IX, Data Escrow accreditation (Registrar Data Escrow Third Party Provider).