Language Observatory
2006-05-16
An interesting article on .cat TLD realization
As being mentioned by Mikami Sensei here . I took a portion from a paper authored by Peter Gerrand in First Monday entitled "Cultural Diversity in cyberspace: The Catalan campaign to win the new .cat top level domain".
Image of Amadeu Abril from ICANNWIKI
I believe that it was an interesting reading. Please read it!!!. On the other hand, I hope to receive the first hand information from Amadeu Abril himself on the realization of .cat. (Note: An email was sent to him today)
| He was then asked: “But doesn’t .cat create a precedent for
thousands of minority languages, all wanting a TLD?” Abril’s response was: “You can set thresholds, to meet ICANN’s goal of financial viability for a registry. How many minority languages are spoken in more than one country? Of these, how many are written languages? Of these, how many have at least, say, five million speakers? [Catalan is credited with 10 million speakers as a first and second language.] You might find perhaps 15 languages satisfying those criteria. That is not too many to introduce as language–based sTLDs.” Some ICANN directors were apparently concerned that UNESCO might fund 5,000 new cultural sTLDs. To which Abril’s response was: “What is the problem if someone pays?” |
I believe that it was an interesting reading. Please read it!!!. On the other hand, I hope to receive the first hand information from Amadeu Abril himself on the realization of .cat. (Note: An email was sent to him today)
posted at 23:44:17 on 2006-05-16
by zaidi -
Category: grammatologia -
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