PuntoGal
PuntoGal Association is an organization working on achieving a new TLD .gal for representation Galician community. The aim is use the .gal by Galician websites for bonding Galicians present around the world.[1] Inspired by .cat (registered to Catalan community by ICANN) Galicians are striving to have more visibility of their language and culture on the internet.[2]
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| Type: | non-profit |
| Industry: | Internet |
| Founded: | 2006 |
| Headquarters: | Apartado de Correos 55 15780 Santiago de Compostela |
| Country: | Spain |
| Email: | info[at]puntogal.org |
| Website: | PuntoGal.org |
| Facebook: | PuntoGal, PuntoGal |
| Twitter: |  @puntogal
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| Key People | |
| Manuel Gonzalez, President Camilo Regueiro, Vice President | |
PuntoGal association was created in 2006 to realize the dream of having .gal domain.[3] For the past 5 years, the association is active in ICANN activities and meetings to better represent their proposal.[4] PuntoGal presented their agenda on 10th ICANN Studienkreis meeting held in January 2010 in Barcelona.[5]
Supporters
The dotGal initiative is being supported 12000 people around the world so far. Besides the organizations supporting the project are:
- Galician Royal Academy.
- Galician Council of Culture.
- University of Santiago de Compostela.
- Galician Radio & TV Company.
External Links
- PuntoGal news channel.