Afilias is a Gold Sponsor of the APRICOT 2010 Meeting.  The ten-day long summit consists of seminars, workshops, tutorials, conference sessions, birds-of-a-feather (BOFs), and other forums all with the goal of spreading and sharing the knowledge required to operate the Internet within the Asia Pacific region.

DUBLIN, IRELAND – 6 October 2009 – Today Afilias President & CEO Hal Lubsen released the following statement concerning ICANN’s new Affirmation of Commitments with the US Department of Commerce:

[八月三日 北京讯] 全球知名互联网基础设施供应商 Afilias，今日正式宣布加入了中文域名协调联合会 (Chinese Domain Name Consortium，CDNC)。Afilias将与CDNC共同和其他注册管理机构一起合作，以国际化域名技术，来服务广大的中文用户群。Afilias负责维运全球近一千五百万个，多达十五种不同的顶级网域名称 (Top Level Domains, TLDs)。

BEIJING - August 6, 2009 - Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has joined the Chinese Domain Name Consortium (CDNC).  Afilias will work with the CDNC to coordinate and collaborate with other registries to reach Chinese language Internet users with Internationalized Domain Name technology.  Afilias is a registry services provider to nearly 15 million domain names, across 15 top-level domains (TLDs).

"The importance of the Chinese domain name market cannot be understated," said Mr.

[八月三日 北京訊] 全球知名網路基礎設施供應商 Afilias，今日正式宣佈加入了中文域名協調聯合會 (Chinese Domain Name Consortium，CDNC)。Afilias將與CDNC共同和其他註冊管理機構一起合作，以國際化域名技術，來服務廣大的中文用戶群。Afilias負責維運全球近一千五百萬個，多達十五種不同的頂級網域名稱 (Top Level Domains, TLDs)。

Düsseldorf, GERMANY - 17 March 2004 - Afilias, a global provider of Internet domain name registry services, announced Wednesday that it has opened registration for .INFO German script internationalized domain names (IDNs), which now enables Internet users to register Web addresses containing the German characters ä, ö, and ü. Afilias opened registration yesterday evening. As of 13:00 UTC (08:00 a.m. EST) on 17 March, over 13,000 German script IDNs were registered, the first of which was kinderbücher.info.

Düsseldorf - 17. März 2004 - Afilias, globaler Anbieter von Diensten zur Vergabe von Domain-Namen und Betreiber der generischen Top-Level-Domain (gTLD) .INFO, gibt bekannt, dass am Mittwoch der Start der internationalisierten Domain-Namen (IDN) in deutscher Schreibweise erfolgt ist. Damit können Internet-Nutzern nun Webadressen registrieren, die die Umlaute ä, ö und ü enthalten. Heute um 13.00 Uhr UTC (14.00 Uhr deutscher Zeit) lagen bereits über 13.000 deutsche IDN-Domain-Registrierungen vor, wobei der erste Name kinderbücher.info war.

Düsseldorf, GERMANY - 27 January 2004 - Afilias, a global provider of Internet domain name registry services, announced Tuesday that it will launch the first standards-based registrations of German script internationalized domain names (IDNs) under the .INFO generic top-level domain (gTLD) on 26 February 2004. Registrations will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis and will enable the registration of Internet domain names that contain the widely used German script umlaut characters: "ä", "ö" and "ü".

Düsseldorf - 27. Januar 2004 - Afilias, globaler Anbieter von Diensten zur Vergabe von Domain-Namen und Betreiber der generic Top-Level-Domain (gTLD) .INFO, wird ab 26. Februar 2004 Registrierungen der ersten standardkonformen internationalisierten Domain-Namen (IDN) in deutscher Schreibweise annehmen. Die Vergabe der Namen erfolgt nach der Regel „first-come, first-served" und ermöglicht erstmals die Registrierung von Internet-Domain-Namen mit den häufig vorkommenden deutschen Umlauten „ä", „ö" und „ü".