Margarita Valdes, Legal and Business Director of NIC Chile, has been elected to the Council of the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO), a position she will take at the conclusion of the ICANN meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica, in March 2012 .

The ccNSO is a support organization of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) responsible for the development of policies for country-code top level domain registries (ccTLDs) worldwide.

Margarita Valdes has performed outstanding work in Latin America, especially in the formalization of Latin American and Caribbean TLD Association (LACTLD), an organization for ccTLDs of Latin America and the Caribbean, that she also presided over the period 2006 - 2008. She also represented the ccNSO in the "Nominating Committee" (NomCom) of ICANN.

We congratulate Margarita for this nomination, which honors the Chilean and Latin American community involved in Internet development.

NIC Chile
Santiago, September 28, 2011.

NIC Chile, a center of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile, is in charge of administering the domain name registry of .CL, that identifies Chile in the Internet. In this role, it is responsible before the local and global Internet community for its secure and efficient operation, to allow persons, enterprises and institutions to build their identity on the Internet, under.CL.