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Contents:
1. What’s New
2. Members’ Corner
3. Future
Meetings
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APTLD Annual General Meeting at Kuala
Lumpur
On 26th February, APTLD held it Annual
General Meeting at After morning break, the AGM approved
several housekeeping matters including the Elections of 2004 Board members and officers, 2003
annual report and financial report and 2004 action plan and budget. ICANN
related issues were also discussed before ICANN Rome Meetings in early March.
(more) APTLD 2nd Technical Workshop, A Joint Effort by APTLD and
APNIC
After APTLD Board for 2004
Before APTLD Kuala Lumpur AGM, five
member representatives were elected as APTLD Board Members. Newly elected
Board Members met after AGM to decide office bearers and two associate
membership applications. Members have voted in favour of Peter Dengate Thrush
as Board Chair unanimously and Shariya Haniz Zulkifli as Senior Vice
Chairman. Both ICANN Rome Meetings
The first round of ICANN meetings in
2004 was held on 2-6 March in ICANN Proposed Corrections to Bylaws
During the ccNSO Launching Group's work,
and discussions with ccTLD managers, ambiguities causing confusion in the
ccNSO Bylaws were brought to the Launching Group's attention. The ccNSO
Launching Group has conveyed these ambiguities to staff, and requested that
language changes be made for clarification purposes. (more) Ten New Sponsored TLD Applications Received
ICANN announced that it has received ten
applications for new sponsored top-level domains (sTLD's). (more) VeriSign Sues ICANN to Restore Site Finder
The suit, filed in the central district
of California, claims that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) has transformed itself over the last
six years from a modest technical coordinating body into the "de facto
regulator of the domain name system." The lawsuit, which alleges breach
of contract and antitrust violations, was filed just three days before the
beginning of ICANN's meeting in Rome next week. (more) APRICOT
2004 at Kuala Lumpur
Following the successful hosting of the
APRICOT in 2001, |
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2. Members’
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welcome
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.lk: LK Domain Registry |
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from .au |
Legal Action: Domain Names Australia auDA is taking legal action against Domain
Names Australia Pty Ltd, over mass mail outs during 2003. (more) |
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from .cn |
.CN Domain Name Registration Outnumbers .COM Registration
in China during 2003 As of the end of February 2004, 350,000
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from .jp |
JPRS and KRNIC Signed MoU on ENUM DNS - Agreed to
Cooperate on Development And Trial of "ENUM DNS" Related
Technologies - Japan Registry
Service Co., Ltd., (JPRS) ,the company responsible for management and
administration of .JP top-level domain and overall management and operation
of the JP domain name system (JP DNS) and Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
(IIJ, NASDAQ: IIJIE), one of Japan’s leading
total network service solutions providers today announced the introduction of
IP Anycast technology to the 'a.dns.jp' operated by JPRS and the 'd.dns.jp'
operated by IIJ, among all JP DNS servers (a.dns.jp - f.dns.jp) operated by 6
organizations. The introduction of the new technology aims to improve the
reliability of the JP DNS. IP Anycast technology(*) enables the distribution
of multiple DNS servers with the same name to various sites and provides a
better quality of service, better load handling, and improved fault
tolerance. (more) |
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from .hk |
HKDNR is pleased to announce the
commencement of the new Second-Level '.hk' domain name ('2LD') Priority Registration
Period at 12:00 noon on 26 January 2004 to 12:00 noon 19 March 2004. (more) |
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from .kr |
As of December 2003, the number of
people over the age of 6 who access the Internet more than once a month on
average is 29.22 million. It will not take long before we see the figure
exceed 30 million. That means 65.5% of the total population are using the
Internet, up 6.1 percentage point (2.95 million in number) from the end of
the previous year. (more) KRNIC
Notifies Domain Suspension/Deletion Information via Mobile Phone KRNIC announced that it will launch notification
service to inform .KR domain holder of current status of domain registry via
SMS. (more) Conference on the Joint Development of 'Guidelines for
IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment' Joo Yong-wan, Team Manager of KRNIC
(Director Song Kwan-ho), participate in the conference on the joint
development of 'Guidelines for IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment' held
at JPNIC ( Promoters
Meeting for the Establishment of RFID Association The Preparatory Committee for 『RFID Association』(tentative) Promoters Meeting hold a promoters meeting at JW Marriott Hotel
Seoul on December 11, to discuss the establishment of 『RFID Association』(tentative), which will serve as a cooperative body among industry,
academia, research centers and government. (more) KRNIC built a base for a full-fledged
use of IPv6, the main framework of ubiquitous environment, through its “Study
on the Implementation of IPv6 DNS Pilot Network and Interoperability between
IPv4 and IPv6 DNS”. (more) |
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from .nu |
Niue Rebuilds After Cyclone Devastation I look around and I see that |
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from .nz |
InternetNZ Keeps Watching Brief on Verisign Verisign’s legal case against the numbering
authority ICANN is a threat to the stability and future global strength of
the internet itself, says InternetNZ executive director Peter Macaulay. (more) New Zealanders may get new second-level
domains to follow geek.nz and maori.nz later this year, after InternetNZ
released its draft 2LD policy yesterday. (more) Domainz Accredited by International Domain Name Body Wellington-based internet domain name
provider Domainz Ltd can now register website addresses ending in global
extensions, including .com and .org. (more) InternetNZ Launches Stopspam Website InternetNZ continues the war on spam.
Announcing the launch of the stopspam website www.stopspam.net.nz , the leader of the InternetNZ
stopspam Taskforce, David Harris states “While the stopspam website will not
prevent spam, it is a resource for anyone who wants to find out what can be
done to reduce the volume of spam they receive” Mr.Harris continues “We are
providing a rallying point for anti spam action in New Zealand”. David
Harris, who is best known as author of the globally successful email product
Pegasus Mail, has developed the website as part of his contribution to the
InternetNZ stopspam Taskforce. (more) InternetNZ Call for Unbundling of Telecom Local Loop
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from .ph |
DotPH
Comments on Business World Article DotPH responded to an online article on the NTC hearing on the Guidelines
for administering the domain. (more) Civil
Society Bats for 'Non-Profit' .ph Domain Registry Some representatives of the civil
society showed support to the recently drafted guidelines on the
administration of the Philippine (.ph) domain name. However, they also urged
government to ensure greater public access to the use of the domain. (more) Disini Disappointed Over Gov't Handling of .ph Rules The current administrator of the
".ph" domain name is disappointed over the way the National
Telecommunications Commission (NTC) handled the drafting of the guidelines of
administration of the country-code top-level domain. (more) Disini
Reaction to Guidelines Article The PH ccTLD administrator posted comments
to an online article on the guidelines issued by the
NTC. (more) Disini to Remain as '.ph' Administrator, Says NTC Joel Disini will remain the
administrator of the Philippine country-code top-level domain or
".ph", and the duly authorized administrator of the domain name,
according to the new draft guidelines on the administration of
".ph". (more) DotPH
Comments on NTC Guidelines The PH domain Registry submitted
comments on the NTC's Draft Guidelines to regulate the PH domain. (more) |
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from .sg |
Welcome to SGNIC's new website! (more) |
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from .tk |
Dot TK Connects Smallest Country in The World to The
Internet Dot TK, the exclusive Registry Agent for
Internet domains of the South Pacific |
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from .tw |
Taiwan’s First IPv6 Showroom Opened to Public v6Corner, 2003 Taiwan ISP Directory Published For public’s further understanding of
current Taiwan ISP industry development, TWNIC has published 2003 Taiwan ISP
Directory, which includes introduction and figures /statistics of Taiwan ISP,
ISP-related articles and regulations, etc. (more information in the
Traditional Chinese Version) |
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from .vn |
Domain Name
Registration and Intellectual Property in Vietnam Registration of domain names under the
country code top level domain dot.VN in |
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3. Future Meetings (April/May 2004)
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