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− | The [[IANA Functions Stewardship Transition]] is a process and community discussion regarding the transition of [[IANA]] functions stewardship from its historical contract with the United States government's [[NTIA]] to the global Internet community. The process and discussion is spearheaded by [[ICANN]] and its various stakeholder groups, and was catalyzed by an announcement in March 2014 by NTIA that they would be relinquishing the stewardship to the Internet community.
| + | '''[[.versicherung]]''' is a new [[gTLD]] delegated in [[ICANN]]'s [[New gTLD Program]] on 22 May 2014. It is managed by the Dotversicherung-registry gmbh, with back-end registry services provided by [[RegistryASP]]. |
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− | The press release outlined a number of principles which the ICANN-community drafted proposal must meet: | + | Versicherung is a German word meaning "insurance". The TLD was created for the use in the insurance industries in Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. |
− | *Must Support and enhance the multistakeholder model;
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− | *Must Maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet [[DNS]];
| + | The initiative to develop the .versicherung domain name space was led by Matthias Pfeifer and Managing Director [[Axel Schwiersch]]. |
− | *Must Meet the needs and expectation of the global customers and partners of the IANA services; and,
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− | *Must Maintain the openness of the Internet.
| + | Their will be an international auction for [[.versicherung]] held on 26 August 2015. The auction will be conducted by [[Right of the Dot]] and Heritage Auctions. |
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− | <small><strong>Related: [[ICANN]] - [[IANA]] - [[DNS]] - [[Root Zone]] </strong></small> | + | <small><strong>Related: [[RegistryASP]] - [[.insurance]] - [[.insure]] </strong></small> |
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