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<big>'''Welcome to ICANNWiki'''</big>, a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable guide to the world of [[ICANN]].  It is intended for use by people attending [[ICANN]] conferences as well as those following what's happening from afar.  So far we have [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles written and, of course, have plenty more [[ICANNWiki:Community portal|to do]]!
 
  
We are in the process of migrating content from [http://www.icannwiki.org the original site] to the new site, here at '''ICANNWiki.com'''.
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You are more than welcome to help ...  well actually, we really need your help editing the information being added!  If you're interested, please just make a login and [[Getting Started|get started]] if you're familiar with Wiki and if not, send any one of us ([[Raymond King|Ray]], [[Andrew Merriam|Andrew]] or [[Caterina Purves|Caterina]]) an e-mail and we'll get you going!
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'''Dr. Abdulaziz AL-Zoman''' is an associate professor who works for CITC as an IT Consultant, and is the director and founder of the [[SaudiNIC|Saudi Network Information Center]]. SaudiNIC is responsible of registering domain names under the Saudi [[ccTLD]], [[.sa]] and IDN ccTLD, [[.السعودية]]. In 1986, he received his bachelor degree in computer engineering from the College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science in 1990 and 1995, respectively, from the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Dr. Al-Zoman attends and presents at industry conferences, such as those associated with the [[IGF]]. He is an expert on [[IDN]]s and has worked extensively to implement arabic based [[TLD]]s. A list of some his presentations at Industry conferences is found below. His participation in international conferences, such as those related to the [[WSIS]], is often focused on regional issues regarding Arabic IDN implementation and the means to develop the Arab Information Society...[[Abdulaziz Al-Zoman|Eglish Article]] or [[عبدالعزيز حمد الزومان (In Arabic بالعربي)|Arabic Article]]
 
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'''Fabulous''' Pty., Ltd. provides domain name registration and domain monetization programs. This company specializes in generating revenue for their customers through pay per click ([[PPC]]) links from the traffic the domains receive.  The company is based in Brisbane, Australia and currently has over 900,000 domains under its management. Formerly known as [[Domain Intellect]], Fabulous is a subsidiary of the Australian company [[DarkBlueSea.com|Dark Blue Sea]], Ltd. In 2000,  [[Michael Dowling]], an IT and Marketing specialist form Melbourne, Australia, founded a domain name registration company [[Domain Intellect]]. The company was sold to Dark Blue Sea Ltd., a publicly listed company in Australia, in 2002. At that time, [[DarkBlueSea.com|Dark Blue Sea Ltd.]] was an Internet based company planning to register 100,000 domains in the first year of operation and therefore bought [[ICANN]] accredited registrar Domain Intellect to serve this purpose.  According to Mike Robertson, previous Business Development Manager of Fabulous, the company was originally designed to service Dark Blue Sea's own internal portfolio......[[Fabulous|read more]]
 
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<center><table style="background-color:transparent"><tr><td>[[Image:BillAndHill.jpg|thumb|250px|Bill and Hill in San Francisco]]</td><td>[[Image:Maori_Mural.jpg|thumb|345px|Vint Cerf dancing with the Maori]]</td><td>[[Image:Vint_farewell_2.jpg|thumb|250px|Vint Cerf says farewell to LA]]</td></tr></table></center>
 
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