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Cultural and society GTLD objections will help protect Maori online
Archived from August 20 2012 The new GTLD program from ICANN which closed its first round of applications included a number of cultural identity and society names being applied for by corporations. The public have been able to express their objections to strings and have been busy doing sohere. While it may seem as…
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dot kiwi nz launches with new Maori cybersquatting
Archived from September 10 21012 .kiwi.nz was launched at 10am this morning in an effort to gain at least 500 registrations within a month so that the domain could be a permanent domain. Within one hour 1000 registrations occurred. Already I have noticed a dozen cyber-squatted Māori names. If you have not already done so, I would suggest you…
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Cultural and society GTLD objections will help protect Maori on-line
The new GTLD program from ICANN which closed its first round of applications included a number of cultural identity and society names being applied for by corporations. The public have been able to express their objections to strings and have been busy doing so. While it may seem as though it is not relevant to…
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New web domains in NZ: Will they help or hinder Māori and Iwi?
The New Zealand governing body of .nz domain names has released a new public consultation to discuss changing the way .nz web addresses look. As opposed to .co.nz , .maori.nz, .iwi.nz, etc., the proposal calls for a simple .nz address. This will have a number of positive impacts (if managed correctly early in the process)…
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Iwi implications of .kiwi.nz
As the .iwi.nz moderator, I publically opposed the .kiwi.nz application. The main reason was that I believe it would force Iwi to register their current domain names in .kiwi. to protect Iwi on-line identity. It is a common practice for unscrupulous people to register names that are similar to genuine names that may be spelt incorrectly…
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.maori.nz statistics for Dec 2011
The Domain Name Commissioner released her monthly statistics on .nz domain names for December 2012. The details and summaries are below including my commentary. .maori.nz / māori.nz 663 registered .maori.nz names in December 2011 compared to 621 in December 2010. There were 82 renewals, 8 new registrations for December 2011 with 12 new registrations and 97 renewals…
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September 2011 Māori and Iwi domain summary
The Domain Name Commissioner released her monthly statistics on .nz domain names for September 2011, the details and summaries are below including my commentary. .maori.nz / māori.nz 642 registered .maori.nz names with 118 renewals, 15 new registrations .iwi.nz 76 registered .iwi.nz names with 17 renewals and no new registrations. Summary .maori.nz / .māori.nz is still…
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August 2011 Māori and Iwi domain summary
The Domain Name Commissioner released her monthly statistics on .nz domain names for August 2011, the details and summaries are below including my commentary. Again, there is currently no public statistical information about International Domain Names-IDN (domains with macrons). .maori.nz 636 registered .maori.nz names with 9 renewals and 2 expired domain names. As with last month, it…
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.iwi.nz Proposed moderation policy update
As Iwi are evolving, and taking on new definitions within New Zealand legislation, it has become time to review and modify the .iwi.nz moderation policy , also available at http://dnc.org.nz . In my role as the .iwi.nz moderator, i am proposing that one extra criterion be included to the existing .iwi.nz policy. The proposed criterion will…
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Registering a domain name with a macron
Macrons within New Zealand domain names and international domains (.com, .org. .net, etc ) are possible, but with many limitations with finding a suitable New Zealand provider. .nz Since July 26 2010 in New Zealand, all authorised domain.nz registrars have to be able to register a .nz domain name with a macron, they are not…
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Macrons can be used in .iwi.nz domain names.
In 2010, New Zealand domain names became technically “able” to include Māori macrons ā ē ī ō ū. The principal community of interest for macrons are those holders of .iwi.nz and .maori.nz domain names, though any .nz address can have a macron. Most domain name providers have not made it easy to register addresses with…
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.maori.nz myths
There are many misunderstandings about .maori.nz and its availability. This brief post should educate and dis spell any misunderstandings.
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Google Aotearoa in Your Local Domain
The latest Google Doodle competition that recently announced the finalists provoked an old thought regarding the Google Aotearoa logo for the Visit Google’s Site in “Your Local Domain” page where Aotearoa is not shown in the listings. The Google Wiki tool for Google Aotearoa is also in English much to my surprise. But I am…
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What next if your Indigenous domain name has already been registered ?
For many Indigenous Peoples and any other organisation it is common to prepare to register your domain name only to find that someone has cyber squatted it or perhaps a member is using it for their own use. Too often groups are confined to thinking that if their name is not available in the .com,…
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Issues for Māori Language with IDN being released
Issue 1: An immediate issue for Māori Language is the use of the umlaut (äëïöü). There are two issues here. (a) For many years the umlaut was implemented as an alternative for the macron and is widely accepted as a macron. It is quite likely that a user with Māori fonts will use an umlaut…
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Māori macrons in domain names are now available
Recently and with minimal media attention (yes media i am happy to talk to you) in New Zealand and the Pacific, the ability to write non English characters into Web addresses became a reality for many of the worlds popular extensions such as .com, .org, .net, .tv and so on. Thus giving Māori the ability…
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Dot Indigi
.indigi is a new Internet domain name that will be the self governing Indigenous equivalent of the .com or .org . In late December 2008 i was appointed the Leader for this initiative which can be found at www.dotIndigi.com . While preparing our policy paper on .indigi i am often asked the same questions by…
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Macrons in domain names
Again we are celebrating Māori Language week in 2009 – 19 years after the Web was created. The milestone for the Māori Language week is that this is the first Māori Language week that we have the ability to use macrons in domain names within the international set of domain names .com etc. Within the…
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FaceBook – your name in the link
FaceBook to offer vanity URL’s the Saturday. The consequences of not getting the right name for your organisation are significant.
