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Dot Award 2013 Contest – Win fame and fortune with the .fr TLD!

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12/18/2012

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Open to any person who has created a website under the .fr  TLD, the Dot Award 2013 contest is organized by the Fundació puntCAT – the Registry for the .cat TLD (Catalonia) – with the support of RVO-Society,  CENTR, ARNES and Afnic.  It is open to any student or group of students – secondary school, high school or university students – from the same school domiciled in the territory of the European Union as well as in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland. Various prizes – worth up to 750 euros – will be awarded to the best sites with the .fr  taking part in the contest.

 

The different stages of the contest

The Dot Award 2013 contest takes place in two stages:

  • During the first stage – from December 18, 2012 to March 14, 2013 – Afnic receives the entries for .fr  in the three different categories:  Design, Content and Information Technology. The Afnic jury awards 5 prizes in accordance with the contest rules and regulations, or a total of 15 prizes.

For each of the three categories, prizes of up 70 euros are up for grabs!

  • After this first stage, the 15 winning entries enter the second stage of the competition: the winning entries from each European organizer are accepted for the Dot Award 2013 contest by the Fundació puntCAT. Each entry will therefore compete in its original category of Design, Content and Information Technology.

The best websites in each category will win prizes worth € 750, awarded in May 2013.

 

To find out more:

About Afnic

Afnic is the acronym for Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération, the French Network Information Centre. The registry has been appointed by the French government to manage domain names under the .fr Top Level Domain. Afnic also manages the .re (Reunion Island), .pm (Saint-Pierre and Miquelon), .tf (French Southern and Antarctic Territories), .wf (Wallis and Futuna) and .yt (Mayotte) French Overseas TLDs.

In addition to managing French TLDs, Afnic’s role is part of a wider public interest mission, which is to contribute on a daily basis, thanks to the efforts of its teams and its members, to a secure and stable internet, open to innovation and in which the French internet community plays a leading role. As part of that mission, Afnic, a non-profit organization, has committed to devoting 11% of its Revenues from managing .fr Top Level Domain to actions of general interest, in particular by transferring €1.3 million each year to the Afnic Foundation for Digital Solidarity.
Afnic is also the back-end registry for the companies as well as local and regional authorities that have chosen to have their own TLD, such as .paris, .bzh, .alsace, .corsica, .mma, .ovh, .leclerc and .sncf.

Established in 1997 and based in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Afnic currently has nearly 90 employees.