Pierre Verbaeten

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Petrus Verbaeten, born April 23rd, usually called Pierre, is a Belgian professor emeritus in the Computer Science Department at the KU Leuven, and has more than 226 publications to its name. [1] [2] He managed the internet domain field .be from 1989 to 2000.

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Biography

Verbaeten studied electronics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and graduated in 1969. The direction computer science was founded in 1971. His first contact with computer science was during his military service. He then followed Applied Mathematics, in which a few computer science fields occurred.

Electronics physics, engineering, technology and applications that deal with the emission, flow and control of electrons in vacuum and matter

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EURid vzw is the non-profit organisation appointed by the European Commission as the domain name registry that operates the .eu top-level domain and its variants in other scripts - .ею as of 1 June 2016.

A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a fully qualified domain name. For example, in the domain name www.example.com, the top-level domain is com. Responsibility for management of most top-level domains is delegated to specific organizations by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which operates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and is in charge of maintaining the DNS root zone.

DNS Belgium non-profit organisation responsible for managing the .be top-level domain

DNS Belgium is a non-profit organisation responsible for managing the ccTLD .be top level domain, as well as the new gTLD domain extensions .brussels and .vlaanderen. Domain names are registered by the various agents of DNS Belgium, on behalf of their individual clients, as part of a decentralised registration and applications procedure.

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References

  1. ↑ Publications Petrus (Pierre) Verbaeten
  2. ↑ List all publications
  3. ↑ Function in EURid
  4. ↑ History .be
  5. ↑ DNS: member Verbaeten
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