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	Afilias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Afilias was formed in September 2000 by a group of industry leading domain name registrars in recognition of the need for increased competition in the domain name industry at the registry level.
		Afilias was selected by ICANN in November 2000 to launch.info, the first new gTLD domain supported by EPP and based on a "thick" registry model.
		Afilias is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with US offices near Philadelphia, sales offices in London, UK, an operations center in Toronto, Canada, and operational offices in New Delhi, India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afilias (247 words)

	Internet Society (ISOC) Dot org Bid
		Afilias was formed in September of 2000 in recognition of the need for increased competition in the domain name space at the registry level.
		Afilias was the first of the seven new TLD operators selected by ICANN in November of 2000 to launch a new registry system using a thick registry model based on the new EPP standard.
		Afilias partnered with AusRegistry in the development of the winning proposal that secured the team the rights to operate the registry and is a participant in the creation of the overall infrastructure to manage the new registry.
	www.isoc.org /dotorg/afilias_background.shtml (742 words)

	Afilias calls to explain .info fiasco \| The Register
		Afilias gave us a bell this afternoon to raise a few problems it has had with our coverage of the.info registration process and explain what it is doing to clear up the mess from the first top-level domain launch since the Internet's origins.
		Afilias will pay WIPO a fee for each one considered, although not as much as the $295 that trademark holders (and domain owners) currently have to pay to be considered at the domain dispute arbitrator.
		Afilias USA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Afilias (an Irish company) and has been set up solely to run payments in dollars and avoid the problems with transatlantic money changing, we were told - Afilias has no idea how Bob Connelly missed it.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2001/10/10/afilias_calls_to_explain_info (802 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Challenge to bogus net name holders
		Afilias, which runs the.info domain, has filed the first challenges to those domains it believes were obtained using bogus information.
		Afilias has initially mounted a challenge to 741 suspect domain holders, but the final total of challenges is expected to be in the thousands.
		Currently Afilias is combing its database for suspect domain holders and will soon mount a challenge to the claims of up to 10,000 bogus.info domain owners.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1768000/1768279.stm (327 words)

	Afilias gets to grips with .info fiasco \| The Register
		Afilias, the registrar behind the new.info top-level domain, has outlined its latest approach to the mass cybersquatting problem that has troubled it from launch at the end of July.
		Afilias is also running a parallel database to enable companies to make changes to domain registration information.
		Afilias has naturally been keen to avoid words like 'disaster', 'incompetent', etc but it did have the decency to call us up and admit to the problems in October.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2001/12/06/afilias_gets_to_grips (316 words)

	Afilias Backgrounder
		Afilias is a global leader in advanced back-end domain name registry services and provides a wide range of advanced capabilities essential to the smooth and efficient operation of any Internet domain name registry.
		Afilias successfully implemented the largest transition of an Internet domain name registry in history when it completed the cutover of registry services for the.ORG registry from VeriSign to its system, on behalf of PIR, in January 2003.
		Afilias Limited is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with U.S. offices near Philadelphia, PA, sales offices in London, UK and Düsseldorf, Germany, an operations center in Toronto Canada, and operational offices in New Delhi, India.
	site.info /about_afilias/backgrounder (669 words)

	ICANN \| .NET Application Form
		In February 2001, Afilias Limited ("Afilias"), a private, for-profit company limited by shares, was formed under the laws of Ireland, for the purpose of negotiating and executing a contract with ICANN for the management of the.INFO TLD.
		Afilias also worked diligently to ensure that the processes and procedures put in place to implement and administer the policy would be straightforward and easy for registrars to understand and use.
		Afilias executed a clear well- thought through migration plan that was easy to follow as well as implement for the registrars involved in the transition.
	www.icann.org /tlds/net-rfp/applications/afilias.htm (15908 words)

	Domain names > Expanding The Internet Beyond .com > October 5, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Afilias LLC, New York, has bid to introduce the first unrestricted TLD since the creation of.com,.net, and.org in 1980, and is bidding for the.info,.site, and.web TLD strings.
		Afilias submitted an application to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Marina del Rey, Calif., Monday in response to ICANN's decision to accept applications for the introduction of new TLDs in July 2000.
		Afilias' member registrars, in aggregate, registered more than 10 million domain names in their last fiscal year, and represent about 80 percent of all active domain name registrations transacted over the last 10 years.
	www.techweb.com /wire/29115748 (523 words)

	ElectricNews.net:News:Afilias alters .info registration policies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Afilias said on Thursday that it had strengthened its sunrise policies and challenge process to ensure the effectiveness of the registration system.
		Afilias' initial sunrise policy required all registrants who participated in the sunrise registration period to have a valid trademark of national effect prior to 02 October 2000 and submit the corresponding information at registration.
		Afilias said, as a tool to battle cybersquatters who resell names quickly, it has locked these registrations for 180 days to both secure the data and ensure that no domains avoided scrutiny under the subsequent challenge process.
	www.enn.ie /news.html?code=5018962 (673 words)

	Web Host News \| Afilias Strengthens .Info Registration Policy
		Afilias' initial Sunrise policy required all registrants who participated in the Sunrise registration period to have a valid trademark of national effect prior to Oct. 2, 2000 and submit the corresponding information at registration.
		In August of this year, Afilias also announced it would exercise its rights under the Sunrise Challenge process and submit a bulk challenge against remaining Sunrise names that appear to be facially invalid.
		Names that are successfully canceled as a result of Afilias' bulk challenge, as well as requested deletions and other names that may have been canceled due to challenge proceedings but that have not been registered, will be returned to public availability in early 2002.
	thewhir.com /marketwatch/info1206.cfm (760 words)

	News and Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Afilias will be attending the ICANN meeting in Shangahi, China, on October 28-31, 2002.
		Afilias attended the ICANN meeting in Accra, Ghana, on March 10-14, 2002.
		Afilias attended the quarterly ICANN meeting in Marina del Rey, California on November 12-15, 2001.
	www.afilias-india.info /news (345 words)

	Summary of Application of Afilias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Afilias executed a term sheet with Tucows, Inc. ("Tucows") wherein a joint venture between Tucows and Q9 Registration Services will serve as the technology provider to Afilias and provide the technical infrastructure and database management of the TLD registry for at least the first two years of operation.
		Afilias does not plan to restrict the number of qualifying registrars that may register names in the proposed general TLD and plans to treat all qualifying registrars equally.
		Afilias, LLC is an organization recently formed by 19 different accredited registrars to establish and operate an unsponsored, unrestricted generic top-level domain registry.
	www.icann.org /tlds/report/info1.html (2580 words)

	Internet Society (ISOC) Dot org Bid
		Afilias pioneered the use of EPP, and is the registry that possesses the most experience with it.
		Afilias’ existing systems are already powerful enough to run the.ORG TLD (with capacity to spare), meaning that PIR and Afilias are ready to hit the ground running.
		Afilias has directly relevant experience in this area, since it helped design and test the new registry system for the redelegated.AU domains, which is being used to transition 250,000+ domains from the current registry operator.
	www.isoc.org /dotorg/summ.shtml (2366 words)

	ISP-Planet - Webhosting - .INFO Doing Better Than Expected
		Afilias, awarded the registry contract to.info, one of seven new TLDs approved by ICANN last year, has managed to garner 900,000 registrations since its Sunrise pre-registration process began late last year.
		Though Afilias officials scoffed at the high number, the registry recently announced it had challenged 25 percent of registrations and was returning challenged domains to market.
		Roland LaPlante, Afilias vice president and chief marketing officer, said the company was fairly pleased at the results of Connor's report, though he felt it important to point out the report's survey only included a subset of the TLD's number of working websites.
	www.isp-planet.com /hosting/2002/info_020718.html (1116 words)

	Signdomains - Domain Name Registration Services \| Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"Afilias is delighted to participate in the expansion of the Internet as a global resource that fosters communication, commerce and community," said Richard Lindsay, Chairman of the Afilias Board of Directors.
		Afilias' proposal to operate a new TLD registry was one of 47 applications submitted to ICANN on October 2, 2000.
		Afilias' member registrars provide their services on a global basis with 65% having offices in North America, 53% in Europe, 26% in Asia and the Pacific Rim, 5% in Australia, and 5% in the Middle East, some having offices in more than one region.
	www.signdomains.com /news.shtml (2285 words)

	News
		Afilias' integration of UltraDNS' managed DNS will also ensure that those organizations that register and use.INFO extensions will be able to get their online presence up and globally resolvable within minutes of registration.
		Afilias, a fully integrated global provider of domain name registry services, maintains international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, a sales office in London, sales and operational facilities in Toronto, and administrative offices in the U.S. near Philadelphia, PA. Afilias provides a full range of registry services leveraging proven technology that is fast, reliable and secure.
		Afilias was formed in September of 2000 and was the first new gTLD operator selected by ICANN in November of 2000 to launch a new registry system using a thick registry model based on the new EPP (extensible provisioning protocol) standard.
	www.ultradns.com /news/articles/020903.htm (777 words)

	Afilias Appoints Chief Technical Officer to Run First "Thick" Domain Name Registry: .INFO
		Afilias is the first of the new top-level domains (TLDs) to globally implement an XML-based thick registry.
		Afilias is an consortium of eighteen of the world's leading domain name registrars, with operations across ten countries.
		Afilias was formed in September of 2000 in recognition of the need for increased competition in the domain space.
	www.afilias.info /news/press_releases/pr_articles/2001-10-29-01 (624 words)

	Wired News: Dot-Info Challenges Name-Grabs
		Afilias said it would require other challengers to produce proof that they owned a valid trademark, in order to prevent one dishonest applicant from taking a domain name from another.
		Afilias will also allow domain name retailers to fix any errors in application forms before the bulk challenge period and allow domain name holders who did not mean to file during the preregistration period to withdraw their applications.
		Afilias said early in the fall that it would allow legitimate trademark holders to challenge the registrations before the company itself mounted a "bulk challenge" of remaining suspect names.
	wired-vig.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,48875,00.html (659 words)

	Afilias Begins Bulk Challenge Process
		Afilias officials say the World Intellectual Property Organization, one of four domain name dispute companies formed to mediate contested domain names, will spend the coming weeks trying to contact the owners of the Sunrise registrants.
		Afilias, a registry that's gotten off the ground fitfully, seems to be heading in the right direction to weed out cybersquatters before those domains go "live" later this year.
		Heather Carle, Afilias spokesperson, said the purpose of their domain dispute task force the past several months has been to eliminate the obviously-fake domain registrations, not involve innocent parties.
	www.internetnews.com /xSP/article.php/957171 (813 words)

	War breaks out over Afilias cock-up resignation \| The Register
		Afilias certainly seems to think it is right in its approach.
		Connolly's demands were that Afilias give him a list of the domains registered during the "sunrise" period for trademark holders.
		The new directors of Afilias USA are to be the same as the current Afilias.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2001/09/10/war_breaks_out_over_afilias (597 words)

	Domain News \| The Domain Times Net \| Domain Industry Network Newspaper
		Afilias will assist NIXI in the creation of the.IN Registry to implement the recent liberalization of domain registration policies by the Indian Government's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, by broadening the domain's distribution channel, implementing new registry technology and enabling near real-time registration of new names.
		Afilias India will provide the required operational and support staff to run the registry-service operations for the.IN registry.
		The deployed technology will be based on Afilias' registry services that currently support the fifth and sixth largest generic TLDs in the world in addition to seven other country code domains.
	domaintimes.net /newseng.php?mhnews_id=306&mhnews_newsid=4689&mhnews_page=1 (208 words)

	finsights.com - Afilias India to provide enhanced technology for liberalization of .IN domain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		“Afilias was selected as our services provider based on its superior technology, international domain expertise and a shared vision for the proliferation of the.IN domain,” said Amitabh Singhal, CEO of NIXI.
		The deployed technology will be based on Afilias’ industry leading registry services that currently support the fifth and sixth largest generic TLDs in the world in addition to seven other country code domains.
		Afilias and NIXI are currently developing a transition and launch plan for the.IN domain.
	www.finsights.com /article43086.html (486 words)

	ICANNWatch \| Afilias - the Protector of Trademark Rights
		Afilias claimed that its Sunrise Policy was designed to allow trademark holders to obtain ‘their’ trademarks before ‘their’ name was available to others.
		Afilias’ agreement with ICANN (http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/unsponsored/ registry-agmt-appk-26apr01.htm) permits the Registry to reserve names for its own use.
		They were told by Afilias that they could register designatedorderturnaroundsystem (for which dot is an acronym) as compensation for the loss (or should it be hijacking?) of their trademark-based right to dot.info under Afilias’ (or should it be everyone-else-but-Afilias-and-its-registrars?) Sunrise Policy.
	www.icannwatch.org /articles/03/07/13/166207.shtml (1424 words)

	Afilias Makes Changes To Sunrise Policy
		"Afilias is eager to ensure that the Sunrise registration process is an effective test bed from which to learn how intellectual property can be adequately protected during the rollout of a new top-level domain," Lubsen said.
		Afilias officials said they have taken steps to further reduce any cybersquatter grabs, now demanding proof of trademark ownership before giving out the domain name.
		The policy changes are a good sign Afilias will have corrected some of its own Sunrise registration procedures in time for its Dec. 26 house cleaning, when the domain extension owners perform an in-house "bulk" check of all Sunrise registrations.
	www.internetnews.com /xSP/article.php/935271 (842 words)

	Afilias Bids For Rights to Run .NET Registry
		Afilias will provide a $0.25 per domain allowance to registrars to defray expenses related to technical upgrades associated with the transition.
		Afilias will also establish a $1,000,000 IIF to be placed at the disposal of the TAG for research, development, testing, and implementation trials.
		Afilias Limited, a fully integrated global provider of domain name registry services, maintains international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, sales offices in London, England and Düsseldorf, Germany, sales and operational facilities in Toronto, Canada, administrative offices in the U.S. near Philadelphia, PA, and operational offices in New Delhi, India.
	www.afilias.info /news/press_releases/pr_articles/2005-01-19-01 (825 words)

	WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center - Domain Name Disputes (New gTLDs)
		Such Challenge proceedings are governed by the Afilias Rules for Sunrise Registration Policy for.info (the "Rules"), and administered exclusively by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center").
		Afilias has announced its intention to challenge, after the end of the Sunrise Challenge Period (which ends on December 26, 2001), Sunrise registrations that appear to have been made on the basis of inadequate trademark information.
		On November 20, 2001, Afilias has posted a revised Sunrise Challenge Policy and Rules in which these challenges are referred to as "Challenges of Last Resort" (see in particular Policy, para.1 and Rules para.1).
	arbiter.wipo.int /domains/gtld/info/sunrise/guide.html (6820 words)

	Afilias Grabs Some Registry Support
		Officials at Afilias Ltd. Tuesday put in a bid for LibertyRMS, Inc., a back-end registry support subsidiary of Tucows, Inc., giving the.info owners more control over their service and the potential for profit down the road.
		According to Afilias officials, the agreement puts control of its.info TLD more securely in its hands and ends a two-year contract with the company to provide technology support for the registry.
		Afilias is part owner of AusRegistry, Pty Ltd., managers of the.au ccTLD.
	www.internetnews.com /xSP/article.php/998121 (412 words)

	Carr & Ferrell Resource Center - "Summing Up the .INFO Sunrise Policies"
		Afilias, the registry responsible for the registration of.info domains, offered a “sunrise” registration and challenge period so that trademark owners could take prophylactic measures to protect their rights before the launch of.info.
		As a result, Afilias has awarded dubious sunrise registrations for suspiciously generic-sounding words (e.g., shoes.info, etc.) with which, potentially, no trademark rights are associated.
		But Afilias has not offered any clear picture of what its own challenge to these registrations will be.
	www.carr-ferrell.com /pubs/html/dotinfosquatter.html (773 words)

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