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Dr Karaitiana Taiuru regularly composes blog posts on topics relating to Māori and Artificial Intelligence, Data Sovereignty, Safety, Cultural Appropriation and other related topics. Please subscribe to the RSS feed http://www.taiuru.co.nz/rss to keep up to date.
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.eng for England
First published: 24 April 2008 · Last updated: 7 October 2026 As the Internet is growing we are beginning to see more groups demand more personalisation and taking steps to ensure they do not fit into the old fashioned mould…
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Pitcairn Islands worlds worst spammers
First published: 12 March 2008 · Last updated: 9 October 2026 I would label this humor if the results were not published in an industry publication. SOPOHS a well known Anti Virus vendor published a scathing report about the Pacific…
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Domain tasting
First published: 30 January 2008 · Last updated: 9 October 2026 The ICANN board has agreed to charge a full fee for newly registered com, .net, .org, .info, .name, .pro, and .biz domains, ending the 5 day grace period that…
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Māori macrons in web addresses – IDNS
First published: 19 December 2007 · Last updated: 23 October 2026 Tonight the DNC public submission period on implementing IDN’s in the .nz space closed. Public submissions can be read here http://www.dnc.org.nz/story/30294-29-1.html . It concerns me that some organisations have…
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Maori hacker?
First published: 15 November 2007 · Last updated: 7 October 2026 With some amusement i read the NZ herald article that claimed one of the so called Maori terrorists (whom may i add is not charged under the Terrorism Act)…
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So called online Activists
First published: 7 November 2007 · Last updated: 7 October 2026 As i write, I am aware of name suppression and not identifying the arrested. When the so called Māori terrorists were arrested, a popular Māori web site was shut…
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Māori not so advanced with technology
First published: 27 October 2007 · Last updated: 7 October 2026 I had the pleasure of having coffee with the chair of the Vanuatu Internet Society and executive member of the Pacific Islands Internet Society in Christchurch yesterday, at a…
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Online activism part 1
First published: 10 August 2007 · Last updated: 9 November 2026 We are seeing the Internet being used as a new age tool for activism by ordinary mum and dad folks, common interest groups, general public who are disgusted at…
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Bilingual Domain Name System for .nz
First published: 9 August 2007 · Last updated: 10 November 2026 In August 2007, as Chairman of the New Zealand Māori Internet Society, I wrote an open letter to InternetNZ and the Domain Name Commissioner. It proposed that the existing…
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Google in Māori
First published: 23 July 2007 · Last updated: 23 October 2026 With great disbelief and frustration, I read the following article ;objectid=10453254) which also appears on Stuff about a husband and wife team whom have either mislead the NZ Herald…
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Macrons in Domain Names
First published: 11 July 2007 · Last updated: 23 October 2026 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,…
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.nz bilingual Domain Name System
First published: 5 July 2007 · Last updated: 9 October 2026 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…
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Māori Language Domain Names
First published: 28 April 2006 · Last updated: 23 October 2026 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…
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Predictive Txt Database
First published: 9 February 2006 · Last updated: 9 November 2026 This paper was first published in 2011. It looked at the Māori words in Telecom New Zealand’s predictive text list and compared them with lists of common Māori…
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Te Kete Pōtae
First published: 9 August 2005 · Last updated: 10 November 2026 Te Kete Pōtae is a resource and policy framework created in 2005 and republished as HTML below. For many years the written Māori has relied on the use of…
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Bi lingual Web Site Guidelines
First published: 9 December 2003 · Last updated: 9 November 2026 I wrote these guidelines in 2003, when more and more organisations, government agencies and iwi were starting to put te reo Māori on their websites, but few had worked…
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Domain Names
First published: 9 June 2002 · Last updated: 9 November 2026 I wrote this guide in 2002, shortly after .maori.nz was created in September of 2022 following the New Zealand Māori Internet Society’s second application to InternetNZ. At the time,…
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Taiuru, K.N. (2010, August 22). Blog – Te Kete o Karaitiana Taiuru. Taiuru & Associates Ltd. https://www.taiuru.co.nz/blog-2/