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  • Macrons not recognised in email by Government and Polytechnic web sites and systems

    Macrons not recognised in email by Government and Polytechnic web sites and systems

    If you have te reo Māori or macrons in your email address, it is unlikely you will be able to contact a government department, MP, local council or a polytechnic. Read the full report here. Most of the 158 NZ government department website online contact forms surveyed, would not accept an email with macrons. This…

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  • Indigenous Domains not effected by new .nz domains

    Indigenous Domains not effected by new .nz domains

    Latest .nz statistics today show little change with Indigenous Domain names despite registrations being made directly at .nz and the new .kiwi.nz and .kiwi domains. Stats for March 2015 .maori.nz = 1059 registered domains with 126 renewals with 19 cancellations (in line with previous months) and 17 new registrations. .iwi.nz = 87 registered domains with…

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  • Indigenous Issues with new GTLD’s

    Indigenous Issues with new GTLD’s

    I was asked to present to the ICANN 47th meeting Durban South Africa about Indigenous perceptions of the new GTLD program. The speech I gave is written below and on YouTube. Considering I only had 5-7 minutes and a few weeks to prepare, it was very light on details but does cover a number of…

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  • Cyber Squatters in Indigenous Domains

    Cyber Squatters in Indigenous Domains

    I was interviewed by Radio Waatea about Cyber Squatters. You can hear the interview here or read the full article here. It really surprises me that people are still trying to hold Iwi to ransom over hijacked names when Iwi have .iwi.nz . All the cyber squatters are doing is making .iwi.nz more authentic for the public and valuable to…

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  • Dot Māori Internet suffix

    Dot Māori Internet suffix

    Archived from August 12 2012 .maori is a possible Internet address suffix that is being discussed by groups of Māori and non Māori. This is a summary of findings from thefeasibility reportI wrote. .maori will not provide any benefit to Māori and will likely be more detrimental to the increasing Māori presence on the Internet.…

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  • GTLD objections will help protect Maori online

    GTLD objections will help protect Maori online

    Archived from August 20 2012 The new GTLD program from ICANN which closed its first round of applications included a number of cultural identity and society names being applied for by corporations. The public have been able to express their objections to strings and have been busy doing so here. While it may seem as…

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  • dot kiwi nz launches with new Maori cybersquatting

    Archived from September 10 21012 .kiwi.nz was launched at 10am this morning in an effort to gain at least 500 registrations within a month so that the domain could be a permanent domain. Within one hour 1000 registrations occurred. Already I have noticed a dozen cyber-squatted Māori names. If you have not already done so, I would suggest you…

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  • Cultural and society GTLD objections will help protect Maori on-line

    The new General Top Level Domain GTLD program from ICANN which closed its first round of applications included a number of cultural identity and society names being applied for by corporations. The public have been able to express their objections to strings and have been busy doing so. While it may seem as though it…

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  • New web domains in NZ

    The New Zealand governing body of .nz domain names has released a new public consultation to discuss changing the way .nz web addresses look. As opposed to .co.nz , .maori.nz,  .iwi.nz, etc., the proposal calls for a simple .nz address. This will have a number of positive impacts (if managed correctly early in the process)…

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  • Iwi implications of .kiwi.nz

    As the .iwi.nz moderator, I publically opposed the .kiwi.nz application. The main reason was that I believe it would force Iwi to register their current domain names in .kiwi. to protect Iwi on-line identity. It is a common practice for unscrupulous people to register names that are similar to genuine names that may be spelt incorrectly…

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  • maori.nz statistics for Dec 2011

    The Domain Name Commissioner released her monthly statistics on .nz domain names for December 2012. The details and summaries are below including my commentary. .maori.nz / māori.nz 663 registered .maori.nz names in December 2011 compared to 621 in December 2010. There were 82 renewals, 8 new registrations for December 2011 with 12 new registrations and 97 renewals…

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  • September 2011 Māori and Iwi domain summary

    September 2011 Māori and Iwi domain summary

    The Domain Name Commissioner released her monthly statistics on .nz domain names for September 2011, the details and summaries are below including my commentary. .maori.nz / māori.nz 642 registered .maori.nz names with 118 renewals, 15 new registrations .iwi.nz 76 registered .iwi.nz names with 17 renewals and no new registrations. Summary .maori.nz / .māori.nz is still…

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  • August 2011 Māori and Iwi domain summary

    August 2011 Māori and Iwi domain summary

    The Domain Name Commissioner released her monthly statistics on .nz domain names for August 2011, the details and summaries are below including my commentary. Again,  there is currently no public statistical information about International Domain Names-IDN (domains with macrons).  .maori.nz 636 registered .maori.nz names with 9 renewals and 2 expired domain names. As with last month, it…

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  • Registering a macron domain name

    Macrons within New Zealand domain names and international domains (.com, .org. .net, etc ) are possible, but with many limitations with finding a suitable New Zealand provider. .nz Since July 26 2010 in New Zealand, all authorised domain.nz registrars have to be able to register a .nz domain name with a macron, they are not…

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