Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:23:59 -0700
When a group of pro-Palestinian activists stormed a recital by the Jerusalem Quartet at the Wigmore Hall recently – forcing Radio 3 to cut off live transmission – they were acknowledging something about this hall, as well as making a clumsy political point. "We all have our views about what's going on in Gaza, but as an institution we are neutral," says John Gilhooly, the soft-spoken, determined ...
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:39:34 -0700
Being overweight is the greatest risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes. With two thirds of the U.S. population now overweight and half of these individuals (one third) meeting the medical definition of obese, the connection between weight and type 2 diabetes is of great medical interest. Studies show that even modest weight losses reduce this risk. Even more interesting has been the ...
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:56:00 -0700
The Irish government will not default on any of nationalised Anglo Irish Bank's senior bonds because it would endanger the sovereign's own funding prospects the finance minister said on Wednesday.
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Kozlemeny a .SIC domenium bejegyzeserol
2009 majus 15 | SzNTA Szekely Nemzeti Tanacs kezdemenyezesere sikerul a virtualis terben megjeleniteni Szekelyfoldet. A domeniumnevek kiosztasat es legfelso szintu felugyeletet ellato szervezet, az ICANN majus 13-an kelt irasbeli tajekoztatasa szerint jovahagyta - a siculitas roviditesekent - a .sic legmagasabb szintu domeniumnevet, igy 2010 elso negyedevetol ez lehet Szekelyfold sajat internetes tartomanyneve. A "siculitas" mai forditasa "szekelyseg", viszont a kozepkori magyar kozigazgatasban azt az onkormanyzo, szabadsagjogokkal felruhazott kozosseget jelentette, amelyre a nevvalasztassal visszautalunk, es amely ilyen modon nemcsak a regionalis identitast jeloli, hanem a szekely szabadsag tortenelmi gyokereit is.
Szekelyfold sajat internetes azonositoja lehetove teszi, hogy 2010 elso negyedevetol a szekelyfoldi onkormanyzatok, intezmenyek, cegek, maganszemelyek honlapjainak cime Szekelyfoldre utalo ".sic" vegzodesu legyen. A szekely autonomiatorekves egyik allomasakent, gyozelmekent ertekelhetjuk, hogy a vilaghalon orszagok, autonom regiok, kulturalis kozossegek kozott Szekelyfold onallo entitaskent jelenik meg. Ezen tulmenoen a vilagban szetszortan elo szekelyek osszefogasanak jelkepe is lehet az uj domeniumnev, hiszen szervezeteiknek, intezmenyeiknek meg fogjuk adni a lehetoseget, hogy .sic vegzodesu honlapcimuk legyen.
Az ICANN kilenc masik regio domenium- (legmagasabb szintu tartomany( nevevel egy idoben hagyta jova a Szekelyfoldet. A hirekben igy kerulhet egymas melle Szekelyfold, Quebec, Skocia, Baszkfold, Bretagne, Cornwall, Anglia, Galicia, Wales es Leon.
A Szekely Nemzeti Tanacs soron kovetkezo ulesen donthet arrol, hogy Szekelyfold nemzetkozi jelzesenek ajanlja egyben a SIC roviditest.
source: Press Service of the Szekler National Council
Alairasaval On is tamogathatja a .sic legfelso szintu domainnev inditasat.
Az alabbi bannerre kattintva elerhetove valik a Szekelyfold onallo kulturalis es foldrajzi identitasata vilaghalon is lehetove tevo .SIC domaint tamogato urlap.
2009-ig ajanlott domain kiterjesztesek .SIC .FIN ...
.SIC, Dracula's TLD!
Stephane Van GelderOne of the good things about new gTLDs is that they make ignoramuses like myself a little less dumb. Take Szeklerland. Until a few minutes ago, I d never heard of the place. A quick browse on Wikipedia and now I know that it s almost the birth place of Dracula. Szeklerland refers to " the territories inhabited by the Szekely, a Hungarian people living in eastern Transylvania, centre of present-day Romania. They live in the valleys and hills of the Eastern Carpathian Mountains".
Well it seems the Szekler people also call themselves the "Siculitas" and their National Council is intending to request .SIC from ICANN. It is clear that lesser known communities and territories like Szeklerland have a whole lot to gain from obtaining their own TLD. Just ask the Catalans if they are anything but happy with the way .CAT has put them on the world map!
So good-luck to Szeklerland and let s hope that they don't run into any interference from ICANN s very own SIC, the acronym for the Board s Structural Improvements Committee. Not that anyone could call that jolly band of fellows a bunch of bloodsuckers :-( (sorry SIC members, couldn t resist that awful pun, and awful I have to admit it is(.
Posted by Stephane Van Gelder in New TLDs at stephanevangelder.com