In addition, if the newest ICANN bylaw proposal goes through as is, individual countries will be left to deal completely with their own TLD administration process, instead of being part of the global domain-name process that many hoped would come from the dissolution of IANA and the creation of ICANN, IATLD said in its statement.

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The involvement of SADC Secretariat in the workshop presented an opportunity to discuss the process of reinforcing the Culture domain within the SADC Secretariat.

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He said much of the information was already in the public domain and there "was no desire to exclude anyone from the process".

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For this reason, we are building an online NGO directory and a validation process with the NGO community to ensure that only NGOs qualify to own the domain name.

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Registries like .asia and .nu, which each control tens of thousands of Web sites, say they are willing to experiment with the new process, which could help cut their costs by reducing the number of fraudsters who register domain names without paying for them.

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But, when somebody challenges the authority or the domain of a police officer who was just called to restore order, the discretionary process of the officer is not the same as that of a bystander.

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