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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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  • Advice for tr.im users

    Advise to organisations who are customers of the tr.im url services.

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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.

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  • .ORG Representative

    Yesteraday i was officially elected to join to .ORG Advisory Council as an Asia Pacific representitive. The media release below. As a staunch beleiever of “being the voice of the people” i would like to hear from anyone in the AP region who are stakeholders in the .ORG or even if you have an opinion…

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