.cat

May 2020 Internet top-level domain for the Catalan people .cat 2005 12 19 Sponsored top-level domain Active Associació puntCAT Accent Obert Catalonia Catalan linguistic and cultural community Sees some use in Catalonia and Catalan-speaking areas; occasionally sees use for websites related to cats 109,110 May 2019 http://fundacio.cat/en/observatory/infographic/growth-cat-domain-1 Growth of the .cat domain fundacio.cat 2019-05-15 2019-10-01 en https://web.archive.org/web/20191001120005/http://fundacio.cat/en/observatory/infographic/growth-cat-domain-1 2019-10-01 dead Screening is done both before and after registration to ensure registrants are part of applicable community Direct second-level registrations are allowed ICANN New sTLD RFP Application UDRP, Charter Eligibility Dispute Resolution Procedure (CEDRP), Compliance Reconsideration Policy (CRP) Domini.cat Yes .cat (spelled out in ca punt cat ca ˈpuŋ ˈkat) is a sponsored top-level domain intended to be used to highlight the Catalan language, developed by ICANN and Fundació puntCAT (now known as Accent Obert). History Before .cat was available, and given the reluctance of certain Catalan institutions, companies, and people, to use .es, .ad, .fr, .it domains (depending on the state respectively) for their domains, alternatives emerged. An example of this was the website for the city of Girona in Catalonia, which preferred to use a .gi domain ("ajuntament.gi", the word "ajuntament" meaning both "city council" and "town hall"), even though .gi is the country code for Gibraltar, instead of the corresponding .es as a Spanish local authority.Currently http://www.ajuntament.gi/ https://web.archive.org/web/20040317163605/http://www2.ajuntament.gi/ 2004-03-17 redirects to http://www2.girona.cat/ca https://web.archive.org/web/20181009235111/http://www2.girona.cat/ca 2018-10-09 Creation To solve this matter, in September 2005 the .cat TLD was approved, designed to meet the wishes and needs of the Catalan linguistic and cultural community on the Internet. This community is made up of those who use Catalan for their online communications, and/or promote the different aspects of Catalan culture online and prefer it to any other domain. The creation of the .cat domain was approved in September 2005.http://www.domini.cat/normativa/en_index.html CAT Domini.cat 2013-10-24 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131029192845/http://www.domini.cat/normativa/en_index.html 2013-10-29 The initial registration period went from February 13, 2006, to April 21, 2006. The registry was open to everybody starting April 23, 2006.http://www.domini.cat/en_faq/ CAT Domini.cat 2013-10-24 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130828121554/http://www.domini.cat/en_faq/ 2013-08-28 Registration The .cat domain is not territorial, but applies to the whole Catalan-speaking community, whether or not a site is based in Catalonia. In order to be granted a .cat domain, one needs to belong to the Catalan linguistic and cultural community on the Internet. A person, organization or company is considered to belong if they either: already have content in Catalan published online. have access to a special code (sometimes called ENS), issued during special promotions or by agreements with certain institutions. develop activities (in any language) to promote the Catalan culture and language. are endorsed by 3 people or 1 institution already using a .cat domain name. Prominent users of the domain include but are not limited to FC Barcelona,Web Oficial del FC Barcelona https://www.fcbarcelona.cat/ca/ 2025-02-20 www.fcbarcelona.cat ca Girona FC,Girona FC Web Oficial https://www.gironafc.cat/ 2025-02-20 www.gironafc.cat ca Teatre Nacional de Catalunya,Teatre Nacional de Catalunya https://www.tnc.cat/ https://web.archive.org/web/20241227141003/https://www.tnc.cat/ 2024-12-27 2025-02-20 Teatre Nacional de Catalunya ca Ara,Diari ARA News from the leading Catalan newspaper https://en.ara.cat/ 2025-02-20 en.ara.cat Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya2014-02-26 Home EN https://www.museunacional.cat/en 2025-02-20 Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya en and Museum of the History of Catalonia.Inici https://www.mhcat.cat/ 2025-02-20 www.mhcat.cat ca-ES Incidents Government interference In September 2017 a Spanish court ordered that all .cat domain names that were being used to promote the Catalan independence referendum shall be taken down.Michele Neylon September 20, 2017 DotCat Registry Offices Raided by Spanish Police https://www.internetnews.me/2017/09/20/dotcat-registry-offices-raided-spanish-police/ Internet News On September 20 the Spanish police raided the offices of puntCAT and arrested CTO Pep Masoliver for sedition.Kevin Murphy September 20, 2017 puntCAT head of IT charged with 'sedition' http://domainincite.com/22146-puntcat-head-of-it-charged-with-sedition Domain Incite Following this, puntCAT released several tweets and a press statement on their website that condemned this action, calling it "shameful and degrading, unworthy of a civilized country [and] immensely disproportionate".September 20, 2017 Intervention at Fundació puntCAT's headquarters https://fundacio.cat/en/news/intervention-fundacio-puntcats-headquarters dead https://web.archive.org/web/20180830110549/https://fundacio.cat/en/news/intervention-fundacio-puntcats-headquarters 2018-08-30 2017-09-21 On October 31, 2017 several Catalan Government websites including president.cat, govern.cat and catalangovernment.eu were taken down due to the political crisis in Catalonia and due to the take over of authority by the Government of Spain. Domain hacks Despite the restrictions, the domain has been exploited for feline-related domain hacks, such as nyan.cat.2015-05-14 Domain Hacks - 100 Sites Using Unusual Top-Level Domains https://www.webhost.al/domain-hacks-100-sites-using-unusual-top-level-domains.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20170623174407/https://www.webhost.al/domain-hacks-100-sites-using-unusual-top-level-domains.html June 23, 2017 2015-05-14 webhost.al In September 2017, with the domain's filters weakened after the raid by Spanish police, American neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer was briefly hosted on a .cat address.Redondo Mónica 'The Daily Stormer' consiguió hacerse con el dominio .cat https://hipertextual.com/2017/10/the-daily-stormer-consiguio-hacerse-con-dominio-cat October 7, 2017 Hipertextual October 6, 2017 esJeffries Adrianne The Daily Stormer just lost its new .cat domain https://theoutline.com/post/2376/the-daily-stormer-just-lost-its-new-cat-domain October 7, 2017 The Outline October 6, 2017 Impact Following the success of the .cat domain, other language and culture-based domain names have emerged, such as .eus and .gal for the Basque language and culture (Euskal Herria) and the Galician language and culture (Galicia), respectively, as well as the .bzh domain-name dedicated to the Breton language and culture in Brittany."Navegar en català" ("Navigating in Catalan"), Vilaweb, 16 May 2014. (Article in Catalan)Internauta Radio Programme from 13 May 2014, about the .cat domain on the web and on the PuntCat Foundation, Vilaweb. (Programme & interview in Catalan). It can also be found here: Internauta PodcastsPointBZH.com https://web.archive.org/web/20090328174454/http://www.pointbzh.com/ March 28, 2009 , Association bzh, Quimper. (Site in Breton, French and English) References External links ca Information and register process Peter Gerrand, 2006: 'Cultural diversity in cyberspace: The Catalan campaign to win the new .cat top level domain' (Issue 11:1) The European Cultural and Linguistic Domains Network eclid.eu http://www.eclid.eu/index.php?lang=en https://web.archive.org/web/20161225215401/http://www.eclid.eu/index.php?lang=en December 25, 2016 usurped left Category:Catalan language Category:Mass media in Catalonia Category:Sponsored top-level domains Category:Internet properties established in 2005 sv:Toppdomän#Generiska toppdomäner