The french newsletter DomainesInfo has published an interview with DotSport founder Patrick Vande Walle on the present and future of the .SPORT domain
Thursday 26 June 2008
DotSport interview with DomainesInfo
By DotSport on Thursday 26 June 2008, 00:00 - Press Clippings
Sunday 22 June 2008
The International Herald Tribune on new Top Level domains
By DotSport on Sunday 22 June 2008, 20:08 - Press Clippings
The International Herald Tribune has published today an article on the new Top Level domains, mentioning the .sport initiative.
Friday 20 June 2008
.Sport presentation at EGENI - Paris
By DotSport on Friday 20 June 2008, 12:30 - Events
The presentation made this morning at EGENI Paris is here
Thursday 19 June 2008
.Sport on Twitter
By DotSport on Thursday 19 June 2008, 17:03
Follow the day to day life of .sport. We are now on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/dotsport
Tuesday 17 June 2008
Discover .SPORT at EGENI Paris - 20th June
By DotSport on Tuesday 17 June 2008, 09:09 - Events
The annual EGENI event in Paris will take place on the 20th June 2008, right before the ICANN meeting, at the same venue.
We will take this opportunity to present the .SPORT project. It is your chance to discover what is behind .SPORT and how you can help make it happen.
Monday 16 June 2008
Press Release - Announcing .SPORT
By DotSport on Monday 16 June 2008, 00:00 - Press Releases
Luxembourg, Luxembourg - 16 June 2008
The DotSport® Consortium announced today the launch of a proposal to create .sport top level domain on the Internet. It is expected that ICANN, the organization allocating new top level domains on the Internet will launch a call for proposals for new top level domains in Fall 2008.
The vision of the DotSport® Consortium is to create a globally visible domain that embodies the different actors of the sport community. Sport is a nearly universal value, associated with the physical development of human beings, with competition and performance. It benefits from a positive image in all cultures.
The sport community is large and global. It ranges from top international associations to millions of large and small sports clubs all over the world. Sports is also a large industry, ranging from individual and collective sporting equipment to media groups. The .sport domain can be naturally used by individuals, businesses, organisations as well as community groups, promoting a diverse and dynamic community within the .sport namespace. This matches well and is consistent with the multicultural and vibrant community in sport.
“Sport” is also a word used in many languages. throughout the world. This makes the domain name truly international and able to cross cultures and languages, just like sport itself. A dedicated domain can help cement a common identity that will be reinforced by the reinvestment of registry proceeds into programs using sports for the development of less favoured regions in the world. Further, the fact that the “sport” word and context in nearly ubiquitous will help cement this identity and strong visibility.
The DotSport® consortium is looking forward to collaborate with the sport community actors to make this domain name a success. Several sport federations have already indicated their eagerness to see a specific top level domain.
"We see this as a major opportunity to launch a successful top level domain. The possible uses are endless for the sport community", says Patrick Vande Walle, a veteran Internet expert and founder of the DotSport® consortium,
Press contact information: Anne Deschuyteneer (anne@dotsport.info)
Friday 23 May 2008
Welcome !
By DotSport on Friday 23 May 2008, 12:54
Welcome to the world of .Sport !
The DotSport® Consortium intends to run the generic top level domain (gTLD) .sport of the Domain Name System of the Internet. We will work towards having .sport included in the root zone according to the rules set forth by ICANN and be delegated the management of this gTLD.
While current gTLDs tend to focus on a vertical groups (e.g. commercial entities, network providers, organisations, museums, cooperatives, etc.) or regional groups within the global Internet, .sport will embrace a horizontal perspective, with a clear brand to reach and enrich the broad global community. Unlike country code TLDs also, which target a local audience, .sport will allow the user to express a international community relevance.
The sports community is large and global. It ranges from top international associations to millions of large and small sports clubs all over the world. Sports is also a large industry, ranging from sporting equipment to media groups. The .sport domain can be naturally used by individuals, businesses, organisations as well as community groups, promoting a diverse and dynamic community within the .sport namespace.
“Sport” is also a word used in many languages. When we looked at the Wikipedia page on sport, we noticed that 26 languages used the exact word «sport» in Roman script. So, unlike other top level domains which are mostly meaningful in the English language,.sport aims at reaching across borders, cultures and languages, true to the values of the sports community. In fact, more than 1.4 billion people use the word "sport" daily.
For more details, jump to the Most Asked Questions page.