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I will be offline for the next few days.

First of all, May 1st is a holiday in Bulgaria (Labour day – but we don’t really work there).

Secondly, I’ve spent the last days working on a project document, and need some days off to think about it.

Will be back sometimes next week.

Have a nice weekend and great holiday!

and my immediate reaction: to send this letter to the editors, and to Bulgaraian all over the world:

To: Financial Times Editors
Financial Times No. 1
Sauthwark Bridge
London se1 9hl
England, UK
Copy: Bulgarian media

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Just a few days ago the Linux World 2006 conference took place in Boston.

Some of the news from there:

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The Internet Society (ISOC) – Bulgaria and its Internet Governance (IG) Project has sent the following contribution to the Secretariat of the IGF:

For those of you, who don’t know what the IGF is, please visit the IGF web site.
Also, see WSIS.

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When I read* the piece “The End User: Adults only? Not so fast”, published on March 30, 2006, I was tempted to respond at the IHT Digital Dialogue blog. I did that, but later, thinking again about the article, I concluded it’s difficult to explain all the problems around the proposed Internet top-level domain (TLD) “.xxx” on a blog comment.

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There are many places where the future of the Internet is being discussed.

I am looking towards writing a piece on that topic. If you have ideas, please, either send me an email at veni@veni.com, or drop a line here. Since my works are usually under CreativeCommons, your contribution will be noted.

In particular, I am interested in the influence of the WSIS and the Internet Governance Forum upon the development of the Internet; how the free and open source software community is changing the way we work; what are the important issues behind cyber security.

Thanks in advance!

A few days ago I wrote about the new top level domain (TLD), “.eu”, and mentioned my belief that it’s a good sign for the Internet, and for the market of domain names.

I also responded to some critics that the process of creating the new TLD was delayed by ICANN.

Here is the continuation of the story – from the person who originally proposed the foundation of “.eu” in… 1996.

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The new top level domain, “.eu”, started accepting applications yesterday.
As of today… No, as of this minute they have 1,240,956 registrants. Why I corrected myself, with “as of this minute”? Because 7 hours ago there were “only” 1,212,553 domains. 28,403 domains for 7 hours is quite an achievement.

Here are some excerpts from the media and from the EU Commissioner Mrs. Reding on that topic:

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Today sources from several developing countries’ governments world-wide announced, that Seattle-based Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has cut a deal with them to provide them with a new version of their MS WindowsXP, specially designed for developing countries.

The new version is called WindowsXP-8.

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