Fundació puntCAT

Who we are

The .cat project is a civil society initiative. The Institute of Catalan Studies, the Catalan Broadcasting Corporation and the Catalan Chapter of the Internet Society are of particular importance as founding patrons of the Fundació puntCAT and for their support in the process of obtaining the domain. In addition to these organisations, 98 institutions and associations from throughout the Catalan-speaking world and from all of the different sectors of culture and activity, 2,615 businesses and 65,468 people lent their explicit support to the candidature of the .CAT domain, which significantly helped its success.

Because Fundació puntCAT is a non-profit institution, profits from the .CAT register are used to ensure the continuity and viability of the register, to foster the information society in Catalan-speaking areas and to take action to ensure that the domain is universally accessible.

Board of trustees

First Board of trustees consisted of:

• Chairperson: Mr. Joan Francesc Gras (ISOC-CAT)
• Vice Chairperson: Mr. Salvador Alegret (IEC)
• Secretary: Mr. Jordi Alvinyà (CTecno)
• Treasurer: Mr. Ramon Rovira (CCRTV)
• Committee member: Mr. Vicent Partal (Vilaweb)

Second Board of trustees consisted of:

• Chairperson: Mr. Salvador Alegret (IEC)
• Vice Chairperson: Mr. Jordi Alvinyà (CTecno)
• Treasurer: Mrs. Carme Basté (CCMA)
• Commitee member: Mr. Joan Francesc Gras (ISOC-CAT)
• Commitee member: Mr. Vicent Partal (Vilaweb)

The third Board of trustees is actually formed by:

• Chairperson: Mr. Salvador Alegret (IEC)
• 1st Vice Chairperson: Mr. Joan Francesc Gras (ISOC-CAT)
• 2nd Vice Chairperson: Mr. Carme Basté (CCMA)
• Secretary: Mr. Oleguer Serra (Federació Llull)
• Treasurer: Mr. Ramon Carbonell (FemCat)
• Commitee member: Mr. Diego Gomez (Federació Escola Valenciana)
• Commitee member: Mr. Carles Riba (Federació Centres Estudis Parla Catalana)
• Commitee member: Mr. Carles Salvador (Associació Catalana Enginyers Telecomunicacions)
• Commitee member: Mr. Llorenç Valverde (UOC/IN3)

Associations of which we are a member

puntCAT is a full member of the Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Registries Constituency, the committee of top-level generic domain names, which in turn is part of the ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) .

Associate member of CENTR (Council of European National Top-level Domain Registries) since March 2007.

puntCAT is also an associate member of LACTLD (Latin American and Caribbean ccTLDs organization), since May 26th 2009.

In September 2009, ECLID was founded (European Cultural and Linguistic Internet Domains), a working group composed of five initiatives whose aim is to create their own Internet domains for their respective cultural and linguistic communities: .bzh, for Breton, .cym, for Welsh, .eus for Basque, .gal for Galician and .scot for Scottish; and .cat, the only existing Cultural and Linguistic Top Level Domain, that serves the needs of the Catalan speaking online community, acting as ECLID advising member.

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