Multilingual Internet Names Consortium
Multilingual Internet Names consortium or MINC is pioneer organization for multilingual domain names. It is a non-profit and non-governmental organization working actively in internationalization of multilingual domain names since its conception. Being an international organization, it has its members from all of the world including people from academics, software companies, ISPs, TLD administrators, research or government.[1] MINC is a part of The Multilingual Internet Group which include WebSynergys Inc., Ankabooot, LIve Multilingual Translator and ArabicSSL.[2]
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| Type: | non-profit |
| Industry: | Internet |
| Founded: | June 2000 |
| Founder(s): | i-DNS.net,APNG,IDRC |
| Country: | International |
| Businesses: | International Coordination Mechanism Council ICMC |
| Email: | sec07[at]minc.org |
| Website: | MINC |
| Blog: | MINC News |
| Key People | |
| Khaled Fattal, Chairman & CEO Tan Tin Wee, Vice Chairman(2000-2004) | |
Development
MINC is there from around mid of 2000. The idea of consortium was turned into reality by combined efforts of Asia Pacific Networking Group APNG, National University of Singapore NUS, i-DNS.net, the International Development Research Centre IDRC of Canada and members of the Asia Pacific Internet academic, government and business communities.[3]
The Arabic charter of consortium was established by Asaad Y. Alnajjar.[4]
Mission Statement
MINC aims for equalization of internet by providing ground to multilingual domain names, internet protocols, technical coordination with other international organizations.[5] MINC looks forward to a day when everyone around the globe will be able to communicate over the internet in their very own language. It is in close coordination with language centers of different countries like JDNA (Japanese), CDNA (Chinese), INFITT (Tamil), Euro-LINC (European Languages), CYINC (Cyrillic), GLWG (Georgian), RLWG (Russian ) as well as The Arabic language and scripts WG (Arabic) and ULWG (Urdu).[6]