 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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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 OpenSRS platform and began accepting domain name registrations from ISPs 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.....read more
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