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Catalan Speaking People Get Own Domain Name

am 19.09.2005 von Law & Justice

The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has created a precedent with its approval of the .cat domain extension for the Catalan language community. Critics say that by approving .cat for Internet sites in Catalan and pertaining to Catalan language and culture, ICANN is giving a ‘virtual’ national status to Catalonia, one of Spains wealthiest and most powerful semi-autonomous regions, with Barcelona as its capital. The new .cat domain can be used as of January 2006.ICANN is the internets key oversight agency responsible for managing and coordinating the Domain Name System (DNS) to ensure that every internet address is unique and that all users of the internet can find all valid addresses. ICANN was selected by the U.S. government in 1998 to oversee internet policies. However, the US Department of Commerce retains a vetoing power over ICANN’s decisions. It has asked ICANN to delay approval of a new .xxx domain name as a virtual red-light district for porn websites.The application for the .cat domain was an initiative of PuntCAT, a coalition of 98 organisations supporting the Catalan language and culture, including writers and editors associations, professional and technological associations, schools, companies, federations and media consortiums etc. PuntCAT successfully advocated a domain name for the Catalan language community. Catalan is an official language in Spain and is widely spoken in the autonomous Spanish region of Catalonia, as well as in the Balearic Islands, the region of Valencia and parts of the region of Aragon. It is also the official …

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