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TLD Tuesdays (Vol. 3): .LGBT

Posted on by Neha Mestry

“The future is fluid.”

For centuries, gender identity, expression, sexuality, and relationships have been governed by social norms and in some cases, unreasonable phobias. Today, our world has come a long way from giving death penalties to homosexuals to legally recognizing same sex relationships.

This has only been possible because of the LGBT folks, and resolute activists, who not only challenged rudimentary beliefs but also strived hard to eradicate them. What’s more, the LGBT community also got its very own domain extension!

You guessed it right, or TLD in focus for this Tuesday is .LGBT.

Industry News, Registries

Afilias and CERT-In Sign MoU to Improve Internet Security in India

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Cooperation and knowledge sharing will help emergency response to cyber-security threats

New Delhi, India–February 12, 2008 –Afilias, a global provider of registry services, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) to share critical information and resources to enhance cyber-security in India and world-wide, increase awareness of important security issues, and to cooperate in emergency response to critical threats.

“The Internet is a global network, security threats are best addressed through cooperation between organizations and across borders. Afilias’ global expertise will help us improve our ability to report on and respond to threats that affect India, and the sharing of data will help in protecting core Internet infrastructure and the domains that Afilias supports in India.” said Dr. Gulshan Rai, Director of CERT-In.

Industry News, Registries

Afilias Announces Spanish Names for .INFO

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Company enhances the non-English speaking Internet by allowing individuals to register web site names with native Spanish characters.

Afilias, a registry services provider, announced that Internet users can now register .INFO domain names that include the Spanish characters á, é, í, ñ, ó, ú, and ü. The introduction of these new domain names, termed Internationalized Domain Names, now enables Spanish-speakers to establish Web sites using words commonly used in Spanish such as película.info, teléfono-móvil.info, Ídolo.info, Piñata.info, and others.

The registry states that this set of Spanish characters adds to their broad support of IDNs, bringing the total number of languages supported to ten. IT also states that these include scripts for Spanish, German, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian and Korean.