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<h2><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">News
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-08dec09-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-08dec09-en.htm</a></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN Welcomes
100th Member to the Country Code Names Supporting Organization</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 11.25pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">8
December 2009</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On 3 December, ICANN’s
Country Code Name Supporting Organization (ccNSO) welcomed the Centro de
Informatica da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, operator of the country code .MZ
(Mozambique), as its 100th member. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Since its inception in 2003,
the <a href="http://ccnso.icann.org/">ccNSO</a> has provided <a href="http://www.ccnso.icann.org/about/members.htm">country code top-level
domain name (ccTLD) managers</a> a unique, global platform to share information
and experiences with other ccTLD managers and the broader ICANN community, and
to develop global policy recommendations regarding country code top-level
domains. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ccNSO <a href="http://www.ccnso.icann.org/about/members.htm">membership</a> has grown
significantly during recent years. In 2009 alone, the ccNSO added 18 members,
including country code operators for .IL (Israel), .DE (Germany) and .EU
(European Union). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The <a href="http://ccnso.icann.org/">ccNSO</a> now provides a worldwide forum for
ccTLD managers to meet and discuss issues that concern them. For example, ccTLD
operators collaborated in the ccNSO to develop a coordinated response to global
Internet security threats, conduct studies on the use of wildcards and
re-direction in ccTLDs, and develop recommendations for the introduction of
internationalised ccTLDs. It is also a forum to nurture consensus, technical
cooperation and skill building among ccTLDs, and facilitates the development of
voluntary best practices for ccTLD managers. Concerted efforts by the ccNSO (in
cooperation with many others) over the last two years will bring to the
Internet in 2010 the first top-level domain names to operate without using
Western-based characters, an initiative referred to as Internationalized Domain
Names (IDNs). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN looks forward to
continued growth in ccNSO membership, and encourages all ccTLD operators to
join. </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Further Information:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ccNSO membership trends (<a href="http://ccnso.icann.org/about/ccnso-membership-august-2003-november-2009.pdf">PDF</a>,
41K) and <a href="http://www.ccnso.icann.org/about/faqs.htm">FAQs</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Alphabetical list of <a href="http://www.ccnso.icann.org/about/members.htm">all 100 ccNSO members</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ccnso.icann.org/applications/form.htm">Application for
membership</a> (ccTLD managers only) </span></p>
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