1. Afilias – intro/update Presented by: Desiree Miloshevic, Advisor, International Affairs and Policy Development February 26, 2004, APTLD meeting, APRICOT Kuala Lumpur

2. Introduction to Afilias Founded by consortium of 18 Registrars World-Wide Next generation registry services provider Complete services: registration thru resolution –Fast / Stable /Secure Multinational –HQ in Ireland; sales offices in Germany, UK, US; technical operations in Canada Over 4 million domain names in management –INFO registry –ORG back office provider –ccTLDs back office

4. .INFO Top Level Domain.INFO – first new completely unrestricted TLD after.COM –Recognizing/leveraging a new space Attracted wide variety of registrants- –Countries, charities, businesses, individual users, leisure industry –Example: great country fit – spain.info Helped expand online communities: –Bloggers, directory services –Example: alac.info

5. Global.INFO Growth is Steady Fast build pressured system to keep up 1,200,000 Registrations

6. New Developments Faster Standard for DNS –Registration to resolution in <2 minutes globally E-num technology test- Convergence of telephone and DNS industry Internationalized Domain names:Afilias will enable local character sets in.INFO, e.g. www.österiche.info Initial launch for German script umlaut characters ä, ö, ü

7. Afilias and APTLD APTLD market has a significant potential and we are committed to its development Afilias would like to work with the community for the exchange of information and its registry expertise and explore opportunities

8. Thank You ! C U @ ccTLD lunch in Rome, sponsored by Afilias, Tuesday, March 2nd Contact: Desiree Miloshevic T: +44 20 7602-9695 E: dmiloshevic(@)afilias.info