[governance] ccTLD regulation [WAS Re: Statement madein Plenary]

[Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law ha scritto:
>> Someone else noted the issue of the non-governmental ccTLDs. 
>
> What do you mean by "non-governmental ccTLDs"? I'm not sure I understand what 
> you are referring to.

I mean the small remaining number of ccTLDs run by private parties 
pursuant to a delegation from Postel, rather than by a government agency 
or by agreement with the government.


>
> I fully
>> agree they likely to be shafted here, and that this is unfair.  I do think, 
>> though, that this is or at least ought to be primarily an issue of domestic 
>> law in the nation where the ccTLD operator resides (which is required to be 
>> the nation to which the two-letter code commonly refers).
>
> Well, no, there are cases in which this is not true (e.g. .nu and .tv). Years 
> ago there was a controversy between the government of Niue and the ccTLD 
> manager which, outside the country, was running the TLD basically as a gTLD 
> targeted mainly at Scandinavian countries; the government wanted to get it 
> back, but apparently couldn't, and the ccTLD manager, being in another 
> country, was not subject to its power. At that time, this was brought up as 
> an example of the problems caused by the lack of sovereignty by countries 
> over their ccTLDs. I am not sure about how that ended, though - any 
> information on this would be appreciated.
>

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