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  • Bilingual Domain Name System – update

    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

    .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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  • blingual DNS – udate

    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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  • Macrons in Domain Names

    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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  • .nz bilingual Domain Name System

    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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  • Māori Language Domain Names

    First published in 2006 as a pdf. Republished in 2023. Introduction Māori Language web addresses or as they are known globally “Internationalized Domain Name” (IDN) is a domain name or Web address, represented by local language characters. In the case of Māori Language it represents macron characters in Internet addresses. An example of this is…

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  • Past and Present .iwi.nz Moderation Policies

    .iwi.nz Moderation Policy 1997-2000 The policy below was the original policy and was not updated until 2000 by the current moderator by consulting The Maori Internet Society. iwi.nz is a moderated 2nd level domain. Before considering applying for iwi.nz you must meet, in the first instance the following 2 rules: Rule 1. You must be…

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