The Mayor of Paris was very upbeat about the new TLD project when he spoke during the ICANN meeting in Paris. Not surprisingly Paris is one of the European cities that is pushing hard to get its own tld .paris.
According to news released earlier today the .paris bid is going to be using a combination of AFNIC and CORE.
AFNIC already runs the .fr cctld operations, while CORE runs .cat’s operations.
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