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The .cat domain now has 50,000 registrations

Governments Should Promote Cultural Diversity on the Internet

The final version ?

Interview of Jordi Iparraguirre, PuntCAT Director

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The .cat domain now has 50,000 registrations

The task carried out by Fundació puntCAT and the excellent quality of the community has enabled us to reach this figure in just 5 years From mid-afternoon on Thursday 19 May 2011, there are now 50,000 active .cat domains on the Internet. Fundació puntCAT, the private non-profit institution which manages the .cat domain, has two reasons for celebrating, since last 23 April, the domain, which has been open to all those wanting to post contents in Catalan over the Internet, celebrated its fifth (...)

 

Governments Should Promote Cultural Diversity on the Internet

By Nacho Amadoz, Chair of ECLID - European Cultural and Linguistic Internet Domains The entire new gTLD applicant community is awaiting, patiently, the forthcoming Brussels meeting between the ICANN Board and the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) to take place from February 28th. After years of delays to the new gTLD process, ICANN and the GAC will try to reach an agreement on how and when to launch the new Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) programme. Read more on (...)

 

The final version ?

The fifth version of the Candidate Handbook had been published and is described as "final" by Icann. This version offers a different solution to outstanding problems by allowing vertical integration between registries and registrars or by linking the creation of new extensions to respect international law (moral and public order). If the board of directors of ICANN validates this fifth version, the final manual would be published early January 2011 for an opening in the first round of call (...)

 

Interview of Jordi Iparraguirre, PuntCAT Director

1- First of all, congratulations ! PuntCat recently reached 40.000 domain names. what are the main factors of success for .cat ? Thanks. We believe it’s because .cat is the way a cultural, linguistic and national reality has to be itself on the Internet, being known world wide and abandoning invisibility. It is not a surprise that a community that created the second Wikipedia just after the first one in English, that is regularly translating into Catalan Opensource tools like Firefox, (...)