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GNSO Council Election for ICANN Board seat 14
February - March 2005 - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

http://gnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-18feb05.htm

.in domain registrations cross 50,000 
THE `.in' country code domain name registrations have
crossed the 50,000 mark within the first two days of
opening of real-time registrations for the general
public.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/02/19/stories/2005021902210500.htm

IN domain name goes public
The recently launched .IN country code internet domain
name Registry services set up by the National Internet
Exchange of India (NIXI) has opened the real-time
registration for the general public from today.
 http://www.indiainfoline.com/news/news.asp?dat=53946
 
Why Business Must Survive In Real Name- Economy? 
The name identity of a business will now be the only
measure on how a name works in a
micro-multi-national-formation in a maze of countries
and cultures. Economical powers are defined by their
cyber-presence and simultaneous accessibilities in
targeted countries. Here, big cumbersome visuals are
replaced by fluid URLs thus creating a new
name-economy.

http://www.indiantelevision.com/mam/special/y2k5/naseem/naseem7.htm
 
vn: Registering domain names remains a blurry issue
The digital age has created a host of complications
for intellectual property issues around the world.
Advanced technology has, most ostensibly, turned
movies, music, books and even pharmaceuticals or last
night’s maths homework into easy prey for pirates and
frauds.

http://www.vneconomy.com.vn/eng/?param=article&catid=16&id=050218101239

ISC upgrades domain name system root server to IPv6
with Juniper Networks 
Juniper Networks, today announced that the Internet
Systems Consortium (ISC) has upgraded the Domain Name
System F Root installation at its New Zealand location
with Juniper Networks M-Series routing platforms. The
upgrade allows the name servers at the location to
handle next-generation IPv6 packet addressing.
 http://www.digitimes.com/telecom/a20050214PR206.html

Domain Event - Apple ITtunes
For Apple, the domain name is probably seen as being
of crucial strategic importance, for itunes.co.uk
domain holder Benjamin Cohen probably less so. But he
has every right to the name and insists that had Apple
offered him a reasonable sum and not gotten heavy with
the lawyers, he might have handed it over.
 http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/40601.html

Asia, a Potential of 100 Million New Domain Names in
Next 10 Years 
EuroDNS, one of Europe's leading Domain Name
Registrars, today announced the launch of
www.asiadns.com to expand into the Asia/Pacific
region, the world's largest and fastest growing
Internet Market.

http://press.arrivenet.com/bus/article.php/589681.html

Asien, ein Potential von 100 Millionen neuen
Domainnamen in den kommenden 10 Jahren
EuroDNS, ein europäischer Domain Anbieter, startet
heute seinen neuen Dienst www.AsiaDNS.com um in den
Asia/Pazifik Raum zu expandieren, den weltweit
grössten und am schnellsten wachsenden Internet Markt.

http://www.computerwelt.at/detailArticlePr.asp?a=90003&n=5

http://www.homepagekosten.de/news_content_32124717_news.html

RegistryPro's 'First Fifteen' Engineers Receive the
Exclusive .Eng.pro Domain Name
.Pro Domain Launches Secure and Confidential Internet
Communication to Engineers Who Seek the Highest
Assurance in a Registry

http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=11579

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Information Summit Set for Tunisia 
The World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) is to
hold a preparatory meeting in Geneva next week ahead
of an information technology conference in Tunis.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200502170832.html
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Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and
BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>.

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