Mr Dmitry “Vladimir Putin” Medvedev the recently appointed Prime Minister of Russia is promoting the idea of Cyrillic domain names to be implemented on the Internet. Although Cyrillic is currently part of the IDN roll out by ICANN, it does brings international attention to the fact that the Internet is a predominantly English based system…

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In march 2008 11 new .maori.nz registrations occurred with 83 renewals that month. The total number of .maori.nz registrations at the end of March 2008 were 504. .iwqi.nz in the same time period had 1 new registration approved with several other dubious applications, 11 renewals with a total number of registrations for .iwi.nz being 60.…

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As the Internet is growing we are beginning to see more groups demand more personalisation and taking steps to ensure they do not fit into the old fashioned mold of Country Code domains being assigned based on a UN list that had no regard for bi/mono cultural countries and countiures that are independent of their…

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The article below irks me. The hoi pol-loi of the Internet have no idea which country a CC TLD is associated with, in fact even what a CC TLD is. The use of .tv is a great and efficient marketing ploy. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/D3D9A2A1CB6E2A5FCC257423006C69FF By Jo Bennett Auckland & Wellington | Monday, 7 April, 2008 Yours from…

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The ICANN board has agreed to charge a full fee for newly registered com, .net, .org, .info, .name, .pro, and .biz domains, ending the 5 day grace period that domain tasters utilised. I see this will dramatically decrease domain tasting but not cease the practice all together. We will just see smarter domain registration tools…

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I am amazed at how many .nz addresses have been typo squatted. Using a different keyboard for the past 2 days which has a “l” and “h” keys that stick. Whilst on the Internet i have seen copious typo squatted addresses in the .nz domain. This surprises me as we have a Disputes service for…

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.lat for Latino’s is being discussed in preparation for the ICANN board to consider next year. Personally i think this is a fantastic idea. If successful, it will join; .cat (Catalans), .cym (Welsh language speakers) .asia (Asia) and .scots if successful. For the first time we are seeing a global mindset change that the Internet…

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Recently i was sent an email about a TradeMe auction selling generic/cultural Maori domain names at highly inflated prices. A Maori web site owner then wrote an article on her web site and emailed her list of contacts promoting the auction and asking that everyone go and purchase their iwi and other generic Maori domain…

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The ability to create a macron in a web address became one step closer to reality this week when the DNC opened the public consultation seeking feedback in issues to implement IDNs in the .nz hierarchy. Once implemented, people will be able to use macrons in their web and email addresses. As it happens, the…

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In July NZMIS published an open letter to InternetNZ, seeking their consideration to implement a bilingual Domain Name System for .nz. A somewhat pathetic and narrow focused responce was received this week. In essence stating that InternetNZ will not implement a bilingual DNS, because it is not a current policy. I will keep this blog…

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.bank.nz (moderated) was approved as New Zealand’s 14th 2ndLevel domain name last week. That makes 5 new 2nd level domains since 2002. A sure sign the Internet and in fact the governance .nz body are both maturing. I envisage that banks having thier own 2LD should reduce the risk of phishing attacks unless people get…

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Today New Zealand Maori Internet Society sent an open letter to InternetNZ asking for a blingual DNS to be made available. The open letter is at the link below: http://www.amio.maori.nz/forums/viewtopic.php?t=200 It will be an interesting topic.

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Writing a macron in a domain name is possible in several existing domain names including .com . An example is one of my own domain names www.māorimacrons.com . Yes, the macron is supposed to be there. Currently it is not possible in .nz . Domains that allow a non English character to be used are…

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We live in a country with two official spoken languages. Our country is known by both its English and Māori names. Aotearoa/New Zealand. Our national mountains are known by their bilingual names. “Aoraki/Mt Cook”, Taranaki/Mt Egmont” and the list goes on. NZ has bilingual sign posts, government departments, schools, early childhood facilities and much more…

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