GeoTLD

GeoTLD

Top-Level-Domain strings which are intended to be used as signification or virtual identifier of a geographical, geopolitical, ethnic, linguistic or cultural community within the Domain Name System can be called GeoTLDs. Examples:

GTLD

* .αθήνα (.athens)
* .berlin
* .cat (Catalan community)
* .gal (.es) [http://www.puntogal.org/ PuntoGal]
* .中国 (.china)
* [http://www.dotcym.org .cym] (Welsh community)
* .sco (Scots community)
* .bzh (Breton community)
* .%D1%80%D1%84 (Russian Federation)
* .上海 (.shanghai)
* تونس. (.tunis)

ee also

* Internationalized domain names
* Proposed top-level domains
* Generic top-level domains

Links

* [http://www.intgovforum.org/contributions_for_1st_IGF.htm Contribution about GeoTLD at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum IGF in Athens 2006]
* [http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/arc/governance/2007-06/msg00185.html Article about GeoTLDs by former German Governmental Advisory Committee GAC member at ICANN Michael Leibrandt]
* [http://sanjuan2007.icann.org/node/35 Workshop on GeoTLDs at ICANN Meeting in San Juan June 2007]
* [http://public.icann.org ICANN Public Participation Website]
* [http://idn.icann.org ICANN IDN wiki]
* [http://www.citytld.com/literature.htm CityTLD literature]


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