Thursday, August 07, 2008
DotCym campaign benefits from WAG grant
As somebody who has been backing the campaign for Wales to have its own top level internet domain name for some years I am fully supportive of the £20,000 grant given to the DotCym campaign by the Welsh Assembly Government yesterday.
Back in 2006 I argued and won the case for the then Assembly's House Committee to support this campaign and subsequently the Shadow Assembly Commission also supported the move. I would like to see the Assembly's own website using a DotCym TLD and all the Assembly Members' e-mail addresses incorporating it as well.
The significance of this move is immense. It will offer an opportunity for Welsh businesses, Welsh civic society and our voluntary sector amongst many others to customise their on-line presence, emphasising their Welsh roots through their URL and e-mail addresses as well as in the content of their site.
There may well be some time to go before the campaign succeeds but I now believe that DotCym is an inevitability.
Back in 2006 I argued and won the case for the then Assembly's House Committee to support this campaign and subsequently the Shadow Assembly Commission also supported the move. I would like to see the Assembly's own website using a DotCym TLD and all the Assembly Members' e-mail addresses incorporating it as well.
The significance of this move is immense. It will offer an opportunity for Welsh businesses, Welsh civic society and our voluntary sector amongst many others to customise their on-line presence, emphasising their Welsh roots through their URL and e-mail addresses as well as in the content of their site.
There may well be some time to go before the campaign succeeds but I now believe that DotCym is an inevitability.
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so it's not going to be regulated then, like the FSB claimed? I could put my photography site in a .cym? or my blog? register it, whether the site was in Welsh or English?
needs to be DOTCWM (valley) rather rather than dotcym! make people recognise that Wales is a special, bumpy place with a language of its own.
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