ICANN Weekly Newsletter
News from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
http://www.icann.org Week ending 31 August 2007
Announcements This Week
Updated Proposed .MUSEUM sTLD Registry Agreement Posted for Public Comment
An updated version of the proposed .MUSEUM sponsorship agreement is posted today for public comment.
31 August 2007
ICANN in the News
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China sale spurs domain name boom (CBC News - Canada)
An aggressive price promotion in China of website domain names with the ".cn" top-level domain helped spur a fivefold increase in the number of websites using the suffix, according to the company that operates many of the web's core directories.
30 August 2007
ICANN Tests IDN TLD (Live!) (CircleID)
William Tan discusses ICANN's IDN TLD test bed plan which includes translations of the string .test into eleven written languages (Arabic, Chinese-simplified, Chinese-traditional, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Tamil and Yiddish) and ten scripts (Arabic, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Han, Hangul, Hebrew, Hiragana, Katakana, Tamil).
28 August 2007
ICANN Featured Individual: Kurt Pritz, Senior Vice President, Services
Kurt Pritz is a qualified and practicing attorney with an impressive 20-year Corporate career in Executive Operational roles. As Vice President, Production at Walt Disney Imagineering, Mr. Pritz directed the engineering and manufacture of theme park shows worldwide. Prior to that, he worked as Plant Manager supervising over 200 employees for Eaton Corporation, the manufacture of electronic assemblies and avionics sub-systems. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Physics, an M.B.A. and a J.D.
Upcoming Events
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23 - 28 September 2007 - AfriNIC 7 - Durban, South Africa
17-19 October 2007 - ARIN XX - Albuquerque, NM, USA
22-26 October 2007 - RIPE 55 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
29 October - 2 November 2007: 30th International Public ICANN Meeting - Los Angeles, CA USA
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