The .quebec domain is a

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and Community Priority Application that was proposed to

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by PointQuébec.

Origin

PointQuébec is a

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aiming to improve the businesses, culture, tourism, and online identity of

Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...

and the Québécois through the .quebec

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. According to the PointQuébec organisation, .quebec will allow all Québécois to register their domain names under .quebec. Michel Philibert, a spokesman for PointQuebec, stated,

"We have our own culture, and we have our own way of doing things, and we want to also affirm our presence on the web".

History

PointQuébec's application for the GeoTLD was approved, and was delegated to the Root Zone on April 16, 2014.Delegated Strings, ICANN.org
Retrieved May 30, 2014. The application was supported by the

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and other cultural, technical, and economic institutions in the province. The application received support from all political parties in the legislature. It received "substantial financial support from the

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", including a $185,000 loan, and is a not-for profit organisation. The organisation verified legitimate registrations via statements of intent through a post-verification registration system. On December 19, 2013, PointQuébec received a registry agreement signed by

for .quebec after passing all the required processes needed to become a registry operator for the

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. .quebec was delegated to the Root Zone of the

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on April 16, 2014, completing the successful application for the string. .quebec officially launched on November 18, 2014. Along with TLDs such as .africa, .cat, .paris, .quebec and other new TLDs fall into the new category of

s. The issue of new top level domains in general and .quebec in particular has been discussed at various

meetings since 2005.

References

External links

Register for .QUEBEC
{{DEFAULTSORT:Quebec 2014 establishments in Quebec Internet properties established in 2014 Mass media in Quebec Internet in Canada Sponsored top-level domains

Origin

History

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