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The delegation of the .DO ccTLD happened on August 25, 1991. This delegation took place during the first stage of the CUNet (Caribbean University Project), the initiative from the OAS undertaken to set up an academic, scientific, technological and research network among the universities in the Caribbean.

The Internet Governance Forum 2018 was held from 12 to 14 November. More than 3000 onsite and remote delegates participated in the 171 sessions at the meeting hosted by the Government of France at the headquarters of UNESCO, in Paris.

On October 10, 2010, the Netherlands Antilles were dissolved. Consequently, three new countries were born: Curaçao, Saint Martin and the BES Islands. A few months later, on January 2011, the University of the Netherlands Antilles presented its initial application to ICANN for the delegation of the .CW top-level domain for Curaçao.

LACTLD submitted its comments on the reservation of the 2-character strings at the top level consisting of one letter and one digit.

In December of 1991, the .CU was registered and delegated to the NIRV Center, from APC in Canada. A few years later, in January, 1997, the .CU country code top-level domain began to be administered by CENIAInternet, a network of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment in Cuba. This is how Cuba’s NIC was created.

Patrik Fältström is the Technical Director and Head of Security at Netnod. He is also a member of the ICANN’s SSAC. In this article, he explains the risks and problems associated to the use of emojis in domain names.