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Contents
1. What’s
New
2. Members’
Corner
3. Future
Meetings
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===== 1. What’s New (01/10/2003 – 30/11/2003)
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APTLD Wellington Technical Workshop and Members’/Board
Meetings
APTLD’s first Technical Workshop was
held on 21~22 November at Wellington, New Zealand in conjunction with APTLD
Members’/Board Meetings. Technical Experts from each member ccTLDs has come
to Wellington and shared experiences with members. Workshop agenda and
presentations can be found at http://www.aptld.org/aptld2003/files/APTLD_Technical_Workshop_Program_02.htm.
Members have got assembled on 23rd for
discussing and drafting APTLD’s future development. Committees, which were
established and reconfirmed, will play a significant role in leading APTLD’s
activities. Some working schedules were also discussed at the meetings,
including Board election and secretariat appointment. Reports on current
international statuses were also presented such as ICANN Carthage, ccNSO
Update, Regional At-Large Organisation and WSIS. (more) APTLD’s next meeting will be held on 26th
February 2004 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in conjunction with APRICOT 2004. (more)
APTLD and CENTR Crossover Observership APTLD Board has resolved to admit CENTR
as an APTLD observer at Wellington Meeting. Meanwhile, CENTR also approved
APTLD’s application to become an observer at CENTR at Warsaw Meeting. It is
believed that this will be beneficial for both regional organisations
and the future development of Internet. AD
HOC APTLD Board Meeting at Carthage On 30th October, an ad hoc Board Meeting was called and arranged during ICANN Carthage Meetings. It was mainly to discuss about APTLD Sponsorship Program and Wellington Technical Workshop/Meeting preparation. (more) APTLD Sponsorship Program Working Guideline Finalised For increasing awareness of the benefits
of being a member of the APTLD and contribute to the adoption of best
practice in DNS matters among ccTLDs in the Asia Pacific region, APTLD has
finalized the Sponsorship Program Working Guideline. The Sponsorship Program
is achieved by assisting ccTLDs in the Asia Pacific region who cannot
themselves fund attendance at APTLD members meetings and/or technical
workshops. (more) ICANN
Meetings in Carthage, Tunisia The third round of ICANN meetings in 2003 was held on 27-31 October in Carthage, Tunisia. The ICANN Board adopted the several resolutions. (more) ccNSO
Members Meeting in Carthage, Tunisia On 28 October 2003 in Carthage the
Launching Group hosted the first ccNSO members meeting. This meeting began
the process of discussing the election that will need to be held for members
of the ccNSO Council. (more) ccTLD
Meetings in Carthage, Tunisia, 26-30 October 2003 Representing approximately 50 Country Code
Top Level Domains, ccTLD Managers met at Carthage, Tunisia on June 26 to June
28 2003. (more) ICANN
Announces Appointment of General Manager, IANA ICANN is pleased to announce that Mr.
Doug Barton will be joining the company as General Manager, IANA. Given his
technical training and experience working with the Domain Name System (DNS),
Mr. Barton is particularly well suited for the position. (more) Verisign's
Wildcard Service Deployment On 15 September 2003, VeriSign unilaterally instituted a number of changes to the .com and .net Top Level Domain zones, including the deployment of a "wildcard" service. Since that time, there have been widespread expressions of concern about the impact of these changes on the security and stability of the Internet. (more) |
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2. Members’ Corner (01/10/2003 – 30/11/2003)
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from .au |
20-10-2003 auDA
Moves to Tighten Grip on Resellers Australia's domain name industry regulator
has moved to tighten reseller compliance with its policies and codes in
proposed changes to the current regulatory system. (more) 02-10-2003 Melbourne IT, the new owner of Domainz,
wants to make the original .nz registrar a key part of its international
business. (more) 02-10-2003 com.au
and net.au Domain Registrations Exceed 350,000 auDA has announced that the combined
number of com.au and net.au domain names has exceeded 350,000, triggering a
10% reduction in the price charged by AusRegistry to accredited registrars
from 1 October 2003. (more) 01-10-2003 New
Community Geographic Domain Names - Documents Published for Comment auDA is seeking public feedback about
the implementation of new second level domains (2LDs) for community use of
Australian geographic domain names. (more) |
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from .cx |
06-11-2003 Dot CX is requesting input from interested
parties on revisions to various CX ccTLD policies. The revisions are designed
to assist in the interpretation of the Acceptable use Policy and the CX ccTLD
Privacy Policy. Please follow the |
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from .hk |
27-10-2003 Pre-Annonucement
on the Launch of Second-Level '.hk' Domain Name ('2LD') HKDNR is pleased to announce that the
new Second-Level '.hk' domain name ('2LD') will be launched tentatively by
early 2004. The new 2LD refers to a shorter domain name category (eg
'yourname.hk') as compared to the existing 3rd level categories (eg
'yourname.com.hk'). (more) |
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from .jp |
17-11-2003 JPRS implemented the following service
changes based on the voice of the local Internet community. Along with this
change, some parts of the registration rule documents have been revised. JPRS
believes JP Domain Name would become more user-friendly by this change. (more) 03-10-2003 Partial
Closure of WHOIS Services WHOIS is the mechanism to publish
registered information for the purposes specified in the "Policy
Document (in Japanese)" (more) |
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from .my |
02-10-2003 MYNIC
Adds More Online Features MYNIC is pleased to announce that MYNIC
is making the process of modification more convenient and easier to use. Customers
can now update the data pertaining to their domain names directly, without
going through the process of faxing confirmation for verification and
subsequent updating in the MYNIC Database. This new service will be launched
on 8 October 2003. (more) |
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from .nz |
12-11-2003 Second
Level Domains Policy Review InternetNZ, through the Office of the
Domain Name Commissioner, is reviewing the existing Second Level Domains
policy. (more) 23-10-2003 Cyber
Law focus of new research fellowship at Victoria From censorship and defamation to
controlling spam and viruses, the brave new world of cyberspace law is to be
the focus of a new research position in the Victoria University School of Law
sponsored by InternetNZ. (more) 17-10-2003 InternetNZ is reviewing its policy regarding
the release of the .nz zone file to organisations outside the registry
company. The current policy can be seen at http://dnc.org.nz/content/zone_transfer.pdf
(more) 02-10-2003 2LD
Discussion Document Released The Domain Name Commissioner (DNC) has released
a discussion document on remodelling the second level domain (2LD) in New
Zealand. (more) |
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from .ph |
19-10-2003 DotPH
Chief, Gov't Agree to Cooperate The ".ph" country domain
administrator and chief executive of DotPH, Joel Disini, has expressed his
willingness to cooperate with government to resolve long-standing and
controversial issues surrounding the country domain, a top government
official said. (more) |
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from .tw |
17-11-2003 TWNIC
Launches IDN-standardised Chinese Domain Name Registration Service For local’s convenience, TWNIC together
with 6 local registrars have launched IDN-standardized Chinese Domain Name Registration
Service on 17th November. In addition to series of campaigns for promoting
IDN-standardised Chinese domain name, a specific registration service web site
with a user-friendly format was set for increasing end-user’s understandings
of this new service. (more information in the Traditional Chinese Version) 30-11-2003 TWNIC call for public’s opinion on IP Policy and Resource Management For providing Taiwan’s Internet communities more channels to participate in Asia Pacific IP/ASN policy making, TWNIC will hold the first IP Policy and Resource Management Meeting to assembly public’s opinions. By doing so, TWNIC tries to create a transparent policy making process in order to speed the national Internet development. (more information in the Traditional Chinese Version) |
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3. Future Meetings (December 2003 and January 2004)
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