VENETO.ORG LEADING THE WAY FOR .VEN

	.ven is the proposed Top Level Domain for the Venetian community. What is a Top Level Domain? TLDs are the last portion of a web address. The most common are .com (for commercial sites), .org (for non-profits), .edu (for universities) and so on. There are also two-letter TLDs for countries: .it for Italy, .ca for Canada, and so on.

But TLDs are not just limited to countries and few other generic acronyms. In fact, ICANN (the international governing body that assigns new TLDs) is in the process of assigning new TLDs for other communities and groups.

Pioneering these new generic-TLDs, ICANN has already approved .cat for the Catalonian community.

What consitutes the Venetian community? Everyone knows Venice as the most visited city in the world, but the Venetian community extends beyond the lagoon that hosts the most charming city in the world. In fact, Venice (originally Venetia) takes the name from the population that inhabits the surrounding territory for thousands of years and it currently counts a few million people.

.ven would serve as the web TLD for the Venetian community just as .cat serves the Catalonian community. Venetians are not quite defined by political boundaries, since they live across different Italian regions. In fact, millions of descendants of Venetian immigrants also live in Canada, Australia and mostly Latin America where they still preserve through various associations their traditions and Venetian language .

The Venetian community is also defined by its history (centuries of Venetian Republic), its language (rich of literature and recognized by the Veneto regional government ), and its culture (celebrated by several year-round events, publications and magazines written in Venetian).

Veneto.org, a non-profit organization established ten years ago to promote Venetian culture and heritage, is applying for ICANN's approval of .ven with the support of the Veneto regional government (the Italian region whose capital is Venice), the Venetian business community (comprised of several business associations) and other cultural organizations promoting Venetian culture and heritage.

Please feel free to contact us for more information and support of the .ven initiative

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