A working group has been formed by the Norwegian Ministry of
Transport and Communicationsto consider whether there is a demand in the
country for new generic Top Level Domainssuch as .OSLO or .TRONDELAG.
The Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority will chair the
group.
Norid, the registry for .NO domain names, will be represented in the
working group together with several other experts and stakeholders, such
as the Consumer Council of Norway, the Norwegian Industrial Property
Office and Abelia - the Business Association of Norwegian knowledge and
technology based enterprises, and the University of Oslo, Faculty of
Law.
The working group's mandate is to discuss and advise on the need for
more TLDs that are in Norway's national interest, as well as looking at
the management model should there be a demand for such gTLDs.



