Newsletter (November 2003)
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1. What’s New (01/10/2003 – 30/11/2003)
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APTLD Wellington Technical Workshop and Members’/Board Meetings
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2. Members’ Corner (01/10/2003 – 30/11/2003)
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from .au |
20-10-2003 auDA Moves to Tighten Grip on Resellers Australia’s domain name industry regulator has moved to tighten reseller compliance with its policies and codes in proposed changes to the current regulatory system. (more)
02-10-2003 Melbourne IT, the new owner of Domainz, wants to make the original .nz registrar a key part of its international business. (more)
02-10-2003 com.au and net.au Domain Registrations Exceed 350,000 auDA has announced that the combined number of com.au and net.au domain names has exceeded 350,000, triggering a 10% reduction in the price charged by AusRegistry to accredited registrars from 1 October 2003. (more)
01-10-2003 New Community Geographic Domain Names – Documents Published for Comment auDA is seeking public feedback about the implementation of new second level domains (2LDs) for community use of Australian geographic domain names. (more) |
from .cx |
06-11-2003
Dot CX is requesting input from interested parties on revisions to various CX ccTLD policies. The revisions are designed to assist in the interpretation of the Acceptable use Policy and the CX ccTLD Privacy Policy. Please follow the |
from .hk |
27-10-2003 Pre-Annonucement on the Launch of Second-Level ‘.hk’ Domain Name (‘2LD’) HKDNR is pleased to announce that the new Second-Level ‘.hk’ domain name (‘2LD’) will be launched tentatively by early 2004. The new 2LD refers to a shorter domain name category (eg ‘yourname.hk’) as compared to the existing 3rd level categories (eg ‘yourname.com.hk’). (more) |
from .jp |
17-11-2003 JPRS implemented the following service changes based on the voice of the local Internet community. Along with this change, some parts of the registration rule documents have been revised. JPRS believes JP Domain Name would become more user-friendly by this change. (more)
03-10-2003 Partial Closure of WHOIS Services WHOIS is the mechanism to publish registered information for the purposes specified in the “Policy Document (in Japanese)” (more) |
from .my |
02-10-2003 MYNIC Adds More Online Features MYNIC is pleased to announce that MYNIC is making the process of modification more convenient and easier to use. Customers can now update the data pertaining to their domain names directly, without going through the process of faxing confirmation for verification and subsequent updating in the MYNIC Database. This new service will be launched on 8 October 2003. (more) |
from .nz |
12-11-2003 Second Level Domains Policy Review InternetNZ, through the Office of the Domain Name Commissioner, is reviewing the existing Second Level Domains policy. (more)
23-10-2003 Cyber Law focus of new research fellowship at Victoria From censorship and defamation to controlling spam and viruses, the brave new world of cyberspace law is to be the focus of a new research position in the Victoria University School of Law sponsored by InternetNZ. (more)
17-10-2003 InternetNZ is reviewing its policy regarding the release of the .nz zone file to organisations outside the registry company. The current policy can be seen at http://dnc.org.nz/content/zone_transfer.pdf (more)
02-10-2003 2LD Discussion Document Released The Domain Name Commissioner (DNC) has released a discussion document on remodelling the second level domain (2LD) in New Zealand. (more) |
from .ph |
19-10-2003 DotPH Chief, Gov’t Agree to Cooperate The “.ph” country domain administrator and chief executive of DotPH, Joel Disini, has expressed his willingness to cooperate with government to resolve long-standing and controversial issues surrounding the country domain, a top government official said. (more) |
from .tw |
17-11-2003 TWNIC Launches IDN-standardised Chinese Domain Name Registration Service For local’s convenience, TWNIC together with 6 local registrars have launched IDN-standardized Chinese Domain Name Registration Service on 17th November. In addition to series of campaigns for promoting IDN-standardised Chinese domain name, a specific registration service web site with a user-friendly format was set for increasing end-user’s understandings of this new service. (more information in the Traditional Chinese Version)
30-11-2003 TWNIC call for public’s opinion on IP Policy and Resource Management For providing Taiwan’s Internet communities more channels to participate in Asia Pacific IP/ASN policy making, TWNIC will hold the first IP Policy and Resource Management Meeting to assembly public’s opinions. By doing so, TWNIC tries to create a transparent policy making process in order to speed the national Internet development. (more information in the Traditional Chinese Version) |