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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 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 IDNs and has worked extensively to implement arabic based TLDs. 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...Eglish article or Arabic Article

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Fabulous

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 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, 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......read more

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-'''Tucows''', an acronym for '''The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software''', is best known for its popular website directory of shareware, freeware, and demo software packages available for download. '''1993''' Tucows began in Flint, Michigan. It was originally started by [[Scott Swedorski]] as a website to offer software on a freeware or shareware basis. '''1995''' Tucows is aquired by Toronto-based ISP Internet Direct. '''1999''' Tucows is accredited by [[ICANN]] as a domain name registrar. '''2000''' Tucows launches an Open[[SRS]] platform and began accepting domain name registrations from [[ISP]]s and web hosting companies. '''2001''' Tucows merges with Infonautics, Inc., an internet information services company.  '''2006''' Tucows acquires [[NetIdentity]]. At the time, [[NetIdentity]] owned 68% of all US and European surname domain names. '''2007''' Tucows acquires ItsYourDomain.com,, a privately held [[ICANN]]-accredited wholesale registrar offering domain services through a network of over 2,500 affiliates with over 700,000 domains under management. '''2008''' Tucows launches [[Hover.com]]. Tucows discontinues ItsYourDomain.com, NetIdentity, and DomainDirect, merges them, and forms Hover. '''2008''' Tucows announces the launch of [[Butterscotch.com]], an online video network with video tutorials to explain internet technology. '''2010''' Tucows announces that it has undertaken a "Dutch auction" to purchase 3.9 million shares of its stock for a $.70 per share.....[[Tucows|read more]]
+'''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 [[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, [[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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