Issue 15, June 2007
June 15, 2007 Adding real benefit to the .aero domain
An important part of the work of the .aero team is to help the industry explore and understand some of the innovative thinking that is a continuing feature of the Internet community. For example, in October last year, .aero chaired a session at the US-based Air Transport Association’s e-business for...
June 15, 2007 Meet the registrars - Secura
Ever since the .aero domain was opened for business in March 2002, only members of the aviation community - including airlines, airports, aerospace companies, organizations, associations, government agencies and qualified individuals - have been able to register a .aero name. Those registering for t...
June 15, 2007 The .aero domain just keeps on growing
The .aero domain continues to offer a unique service to the industry, providing an exclusive top level domain as a development platform for innovative Internet-based services that use the well-established aviation naming and coding conventions. Through 2006, there was a significant increase in regis...
June 15, 2007 Spreading the word across North America...
Through June and July, the .aero domain is featuring on the home page of PartsBase.com, the worlds largest on-line aviation market place. With a bias towards the massive North American market, the company nevertheless serves 23,000 end-users, representing some 4,500 member companies worldwide. Parts...
June 15, 2007 ...and Air Transport News chooses .aero
The recently launched Air Transport News - a daily e-mail and online newsletter produced in English by 11Aviation Publications, a specialist aviation publisher based in Athens, Greece - is affirming its industry credentials by using the .aero domain. The newsletter (which can be found at www.airtran...
June 15, 2007 Who owns and runs the Internet - the evolving role of ICANN
When the Internet Protocol was first developed, a crowd of networks evolved beginning with the US Government-funded ARPANET. Ultimately they were linked together to create what we know today as the Internet. From the outset, no-one owned the Internet. However, someone had to keep track of all the pr...
June 15, 2007 What's happening to the digital divide?
You may not have realized it, but 17 May was World Information Society Day, a moment set by the UN to remind the world of the vision set out at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2005 to build "a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented information society". The drivers ...
