Just Approved: .GAL and .EUS

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The Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) , the organization responsible for assigning network addresses, has authorized the use of the domain . gal for Galician.

After a year of study, Icann has given the green light to the domain. Gal to be used by the community of the Galician language and culture, according to information provided by the Association PuntoGal .

The candidacy. Gal, which was launched in 2007 to promote Galician culture and language on the Web The initiative was backed by more than 13,700 people and 110 institutions in Galicia, including relevant agencies of culture such as the Royal Academy, the Galician Culture Council or the three universities. "A likely next achievement do. Gallon achievement é da sociedade no seu galega conxunto" highlighted a few months ago PuntoGal president, Manuel Gonzalez.

After approval of the project, the next step will be to enable the domain in a process that will be delayed until later this year or early 2014. Then open the call for application identifiers in. Gal, for what at first preference will be institutions that work in favor of the Galician language and culture.

In its first year, the Catalan domain. Cat, the only regional character that exists today in Spain, added 20,000 users, while in Galicia 10,000 are recorded annually. Es domains. With these precedents, the. 8,000 gal could get IDs, but Camilo Regueira adviertía that "é moi Prévisions facer complicated." What does ensure the association is that the registry can finance itself, which does not require extra aid for maintenance.

For any payoff, PuntoGal is committed to ICANN to establish a foundation, as has been done in Catalonia, to reinvest the money in projects that promote Galician language and culture in the field of new technologies. "Nós count that year. Tódalas join Institucions gal, but likely to be aimed é tamen Queren feel Moitas companies and moitos preto da comunidade das 13,700 individuals persoas apoian us," explains Regueira.

Approval for also. Eus

It has also been approved.
Eus for Basque, which was promoted by PuntuEus, created in 2008, consists of more than fifty organizations from different fields, such as the Royal Academy of the Basque Language Euskaltzaindia or Basque Country University .

References:
- lavozdegalicia.es
- lavozdegalicia.es (in English)