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APTLD Bi-monthly e-Newsletter / March 2003 |
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Contents1. What’s New2. Members’ Corner3. Future Meetings |
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=====1. What’s New (1 February 2003 – 31 March 2003) |
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APTLD Taipei Annual General
Meeting
The APTLD held it’s AGM at the APRICOT meeting
held in Taipei, Taiwan, February 24 2003 with twelve of seventeen members and
two observers in attendance. The meeting was chaired by Ramesh Kumar
Nadarajah. Several significant housekeeping decisions have been made. The
meeting was also toestablish the APTLD’s position paper on the AG’s
Preliminary Recommendations on the ccNSO due to inadequate time for
discussing the final recommendation paper on the formation of the ccNSO as
the AG had not finished their work. (more) Preliminary
Report Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board in Rio de Janeiro
ICANN's Transition Board of Directors held a meeting
by teleconference on 27 March 2003. The Board adopted the following
resolutions. (more) ICANN
Announces Dr. Paul Twomey as New President/CEO
Dr. Paul Twomey has been appointed by the
Board of Directors as ICANN’s new President and CEO. He is first non-US
citizen to head ICANN. (more) ccTLD
Rio de Janeiro Meeting
ccTLD held a 3 days meeting on 23 March 2003.
During the meeting several issues were discussed and a resolution was adopted
by the ccTLD Managers meeting concerning the Recommendations of the ccNSO
Assistance Group. Meeting Communiqué and Minutes as well as above-mentioned
resolution are available on Meeting Highlights page. (more) APRICOT 2003 in Taipei
APRICOT 2003 (Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference
on Operational Technologies) was held in Taipei from 19 to 28 February
successfully. The significant conference included 9 parts: Pre-conference
Workshops, Tutorials, Conference, APNIC Annual Member Meeting, The 1st Global
IPv6 Summit in the Asia Pacific, Birds-Of-A-Feather Meetings, AP* Meetings,
Social Activities, and demo labs. Nearly 1000 Internet technologists and
managers from 30 countries in the Asia Pacific Region attended this
conference. (more) APRICOT
2003 News
Several meeting were held in conjunction with
APRICOT 2003. (more) The 1st Global IPv6 Summit in
the Asia Pacific
The First Global IPv6 Summit in the AP was
held grandly in Taipei from 24 to 26 February. More than 400 domestic and
foreign talents attended this grand conference. (more) |
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2. Members’ Corner (1 February 2003 – 31 March 2003) |
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from
.au |
31 March 2003 Revised
Code of Practice for Domain Name Industry The auDA Board has endorsed
a revised version of the Code. (more) 30 March 2003 Melbourne
IT Mailout Breached Registrar Agreement auDA has found that a
mailout to registrants by Melbourne IT Ltd breached the Registrar Agreement
and was not in the spirit of the .au Domain Name Suppliers’ Code of Practice.
(more) 24 March 2003 Small Business Guide to Domain Names auDA and the Federal
Government have produced a new guide and factsheets for small businesses. (more) 6 March 2003 The body charged with
recommending second-level domain (2LD) names such as .uni.au and .catholic.au
has rejected several proposals, with likely lack of user interest a key
reason in many cases. (more) 4 March 2003 auDA
Consumer Alert - Uregister.com.au auDA has become aware
that an organisation calling itself URegister.com.au (URegister) is sending
to domain name registrants solicitations for business that contain incorrect
and possibly misleading information. (more) 27 February 2003 auDA
Backs Retention of conf.au 2LD The .au Domain
Administration (auDA) has recommended that just one second-level domain in a
shortlist of four be retained and no new open or closed 2LDs be created,
according to a draft report issued by the panel given the task of examining
proposals for new second level domains. (more) |
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.cn |
17 March 2003 China Opens Up Second-Level
.cn Domains (Simplified
Chinese Version) China Ministry of Information
Industry officially announced the open-up of second-level .cn domain. (more) |
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.hk |
14 March 2003 Individual
Domain Name Random Selection Ceremony Further to the Sunrise
Period of the new Individual Domain Name
from 21st February to 6th March, a Random Selection Ceremony has been held at
3:00 on 8th March 2003 at the Tech Centre. During the Ceremony, ONE
application was randomly picked for each individual domain name with more
than one application. (more) 21 February 2003 HKIRC
Announce Upgrade of Agreement Contract to HKDNR Version 2.0 HKIRC and its wholly
owned subsidiary Hong Kong Domain Name Registration Company Limited
("HKDNR") announced today the launch of Registration agreement
version 2.0 with immediate effect, the new Agreement version 2.0 will be
applied to registrations for all domain name categories hereafter. (more) 19 February 2003 HKIRC
Launches “.idv.hk” Domain Name for Individuals in Hong Kong HKIRC announced the
launch of a new domain name category, “.idv.hk”. The new category under
the “.hk” domain name space is designated for all Hong Kong ID cardholders
with the age of 11 or above, and enables individuals to establish their
exclusive domain names on the Internet. (more) |
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.jp |
20 March 2003 Change of Service Migration
Schedule for Japanese JP Domain Name in compliance with RFCs On March 7, JPRS had
announced the service schedule of Japanese JP Domain Name in compliance with
RFCs, according to the publication of the RFCs. Subsequently, in consideration
of ICANN's release of a document "Standards for ICANN Authorization of
Internationalised Domain Name Registrations in Registries with
Agreements" on March 13 (US time), JPRS determined that it would
reschedule the migration as after the discussion of the above document with
other registries and ICANN. (more) 20 March 2003 Service Migration Schedule of
Japanese JP Domain Name JPRS plans to start
employment of the Japanese domain name using Punycode. The schedule will be
determined when JPRS completes the procedure proposed by ICANN, after
consensus is reached in ICANN Rio de Janeiro Meetings. (more) 7 March 2003 JPRS Will Start RFC-based
Japanese JP Domain Name Registration and Management Services from March.20 JPRS announced that its
Japanese JP domain name registration and management services will comply with
RFCs for Internationalised Domain Names (IDN) from March 20, in accordance
with the publishment of the RFCs, which define the IDN-related technical
standard, on March 7. (more) |
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from
.kr |
22 March 2003 'Internet-Based
Business to Be Diversified' "While, for the
past 3 years, we have focused on enhancing the stability and efficiency of
.kr registration business, for this year, we are planning to carry out
various Internet-based business activities". (more) 25 February 2003 Sponsorship
of the Overseas IT Volunteers' Group As part of its project
of supporting less-developed countries for resolving information divide
between nations, KRNIC sponsors the event named "Overseas IT Volunteers'
Group" co-organized by the Information Technology Professionals
Association of Korea (IPAK) and Namseoul University. (more) 25 February 2003 KRNIC
and KADO Agreed to Cooperate to Resolve Information KRNIC and KADO
concluded a business agreement for resolving domestic and overseas
information divide and for expanding the use of '.kr' domains. (more) 25 February 2003 The Project
of Establishing Internet Address Resource "The Project of
Establishing Internet Address Resource Management Basis arranged by MIC has
its significance as the government's willingness to place a great deal of
stability, integrity and efficiency to the nation's Internet environment. The
nation's Internet environment has been exposed unguarded to all sorts of
information-related accidents that use floating IP and public IP. (more) 25 February 2003 Internet
Address to Be Newly Managed Various foundations for
Internet address resource management will be newly established so as to help
effectively cope with information-related accidents that are swiftly on the
rise along with the spread of the Internet. (more) 25 February 2003 The
Korean-lettere Address Service Market to be Heated As 'Korean letters.com'
and 'Korean letteres.net' services started to be provided from last week, and
'Korean letters.kr' service will be underway during the first half of this
year, there is a prospect of fiercer competition in the Korean-letter
Internet address service market. This could negatively affect the position of
Netpia, a pioneer of the market who has provided Korean-letter Internet
address connection service of keyword format. (more) 25 February 2003 .kr
Domains Projected to Exceed 1 Million in 2003 As it is expected that
the improvement of various systems that have hindered the expansion of '.kr',
a national domain, will be underway in earnest this year, there is a careful
observation that the number of '.kr' domains will pass 1 million mark. (more) |
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.my |
25 February 2003 MYNIC’s Agreement for
Registration of Domain Names has been revised. Please click here for a
copy of the revised agreement. From 1st March 2003, all new .my domain name
registrations will be subject to the revised agreement. (more) |
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from
.nu |
20 March 2003 .NU Domain and Swedish Royal
Library Team to Preserve Internet History The .NU Domain Ltd has
partnered with the Royal Library, National Library of Sweden to preserve
Internet history. On April 1, 2003 the Royal Library will unveil the web
heritage of Sweden and make public for the first time the Swedish Web pages
that they have archived. (more) 14 March 2003 .NU Domain Supports IETF
Standards, Has International Domain Names up and Running .NU Domain's
International Characters Require No Software Upgrade or Browser Plug-In. (more) 7 March 2003 World's Smallest ISP for the
World's Smallest Nation Launches Free Broadband Services The Internet Users
Society - Niue (IUS-N), today announced that it has launched free broadband
Internet services for the local Internet community at its Internet Cafe on the
tiny Polynesian island-nation of Niue. IUS-N, a US-incorporated, private
charitable foundation locally managed in Niue, was established in 1997 to use
revenue from registration of .NU domain names to develop and fund free
Internet services for all the people of Niue. (more) |
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from
.nz |
7 March 2003 The straw poll for the creation
of the new second level domain '.geek.nz' was overwhelmingly in favour of its
creation. Over 1,000 votes were cast with the result being. (more) 18 February 2003 Voting for this proposal will last 14 days. The voting will commence
at 2359 on February 18 2003. The vote finishes at 2359 on March 4 2003. (more) |
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from
.sg |
14 March 2003 Singapore
Withdraws Internet Domain Trademark Application Singapore's Internet
registry on Friday withdrew its trademark application for the country suffix
for the Internet domain name of ".sg", following a hostile public
reaction to the unprecedented move. (more) |
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from
.tw |
16 March 2003 TWNIC Ficilitated Domain Name
Application From January 1 2003,
TWNIC has removed the review of written documents and simplified the
application procedures of domain names. Applicants can immediately finish all
of the application procedures via e-mail to confirm their identifications. In
addition, after the new measure of the removal of written documents has been implemented,
the previous regulation that foreign companies must authorize domestic law
firms for application has been adjusted to allow foreigners or foreign
companies to register and apply. (more) 1 March 2003 2002
Taiwan ISP Annual Report Released (Traditional Chinese Version) In order for allowing
Internet users to further understand Taiwan’s Internet infrastructure, an
annual report on Taiwan’s ISP was just released. (more) 1 March 2003 TWNIC
Released New Dynamic DNS Program for Downloading In order to improve the
service quality of the dynamic DNS, TWNIC will open to download the
new-version client program. Main functions of the new program include:
providing the Windows series operational system to support different domain
names, improving connection quality, and improving drawbacks in old-version
program. (more) |
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from
.vn |
12 March 2003VNNIC is a
not-for-profit affiliation to the Ministry of Posts & Telematics (MPT),
established on February 28th, 2000. Its main functions and duties are
regulated in Decision No 28/2003/QD-BBCVT
dated March 12, 2003 by the Minister of Posts & Telematics as follows. (more) |
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3.
Future Meetings (in April and
May)
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