At last, ICANN says...

".CAT is proposed for the Catalan linguistic and cultural community"


Main reasons given by puntCAT:


"Catalan is the 19th and 23rd language in terms of online use" (...)

"Catalan is not a marginal language offline either. Taking a single statistic, the number of books published in 2002, Catalan totals 8183, compared to roughly 7000 in Finland, 6000 in Greece of 9000 in Hungary" (...)

"You certainly know painters such as Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró or Antoni Tàpies, musicians like Pau Casals, Montserrat Caballé or Josep Carreras, architects like Antoni Gaudí, Josep Puig i Cadafalch or Ricardo Bofill. We stop here ;-)" (...)

"Google or Yahoo cannot (yet!) use a google.cat or yahoo.cat for their (existing) Catalan-language versions" (...)

"The final question would certainly be: .cat? Meow!! Yes ;-) But then .net means“clean” in Catalan, and .nu, “naked”. And this can be expanded to exhaustion. Some names are nicer in different parts of the world. That’s a fact, not a bug.

puntCAT comes here, with huge support from its community, with a solid proposal, a viable registry and lots of innovative ideas. Give .cat a chance!"



For a complete reading, visit: http://www.icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/cat.htm

Today is a great day for Catalonia! Congratulations to all those who have made it possible!