ICANN Signs Agreement Giving UPU Managing Authority Over .Post Domain

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ICANN Signs Agreement Giving UPU Managing Authority Over .Post Domain

By CircleID Reporter
December 12, 2009, 6:15 pm PST Views: 10,006 Add Comment

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ICANN and the Swiss-based Universal Postal Union (UPU) have signed an agreement giving the UPU managing authority over .post as a top-level domain (TLD). At the highest conceptual level, the agreement represents linking the TLD with the real-world physical networks of the postal system, with 600,000 global physical offices and proximity to most humans. To enable its customers to take advantage of the services the UPU envisions for .post, the UPU is already installing the first computers in many villages in their local post offices to provide those services, says the announcement.

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