Galicia begins the final stretch to obtain the gal domain

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Six years after the foundation of the association puntoGal, Galicia is beginning the final stretch to obtain its own domain name on the Internet, which is granted by the Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). On this path, the Galician association has joined other candidates such as the Basque, Breton, Welsh and Scottish ones, to achieve this symbol of "identity" of the Galician Community which, in the words of the president of the association, Manuel González, is a cultural and also economic opportunity.

In this venture, which has had the unanimous australia telegram users mobile phone number listsupport of the Galician political forces and the last two Galician governments – the bipartite one and the current one led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo – Galicia has also found the support of Catalonia, which has had the Sunday '.cat' since 2005. The director of the puntoCAT Foundation, Jordi Iparraguire, supported this Tuesday with his presence the official presentation of the candidacy of the Galician domain, in which all the participants agreed to meet in 2013 to "celebrate" the achievement of this brand on the Internet, and with the confidence that in "a year and a half" the first pages with this brand can begin to be registered.



"I think it is a step, without wanting to be clichéd, historic for the Galician language and culture. It is a transcendental step," said the president of the association in statements to the media, who noted the positive consequences from a social, cultural, technical and economic point of view.

In this way, he pointed out that "it will contribute to increasing self-esteem to identify ourselves on the network as a differentiated community"; it will be a means of "propaganda and visibility for Galician culture" with what this means at an "identity" level; it will have a social cohesion purpose, as a way of "recovering roots" for all those Galicians and descendants around the world; it will facilitate the operation of search engines, grouping information; and it is an economic opportunity, because the benefits of registering a page with this domain will remain in Galicia and will be reinvested in the Community.

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In this regard, and after predicting that the '.gal' will suffer the same fate as the .cat, Jordi Iparraguire has assured that the Galician domain "can work" and has supported this with the experience of the Catalan brand, as well as explaining that it is an economic opportunity in different aspects.