.cat is a sponsored top-level domain intended to be used to highlight the Catalan language and culture. Its policy has been developed by ICANN and Fundació puntCAT. It was approved in September 2005.
Before .cat was available, and given the reluctance of certain Catalan institutions, companies and people to use .es, .ad, .fr, .it domains (depending on the state respectively) for their webpages, alternatives emerged. An example of this is the webs...
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.cat is a sponsored top-level domain intended to be used to highlight the Catalan language and culture. Its policy has been developed by ICANN and Fundació puntCAT. It was approved in September 2005.
Before .cat was available, and given the reluctance of certain Catalan institutions, companies and people to use .es, .ad, .fr, .it domains (depending on the state respectively) for their webpages, alternatives emerged. An example of this is the website for the city of Girona in Catalonia, which preferred to use a .gi domain ("
http://www.ajuntament.gi/", the word "ajuntament" meaning both "city council" and "town hall"), even though .gi is the country code for Gibraltar, instead of the corresponding .es as a Spanish local authority.
To solve this question, in September 2005 the .cat TLD was approved, intending to attend the claims of that part of the Catalan linguistic and cultural community on the Internet. This community is made up of those who use Catalan for their online...
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