Re: An Open Letter to the IAHC

[Kevin Brown <kevinbr@netcomm.ie>]

At 1:36 +0300 30/12/96, Aveek Datta wrote:

>
>Of course it is not as simple as that; ISO country TLDs are monopolized
>by the government in question. So let me change TLDs to "iTLDs/gTLDs".
>
>Aveek
Aveek,

ISO TLDs are NOT given to the governments, they are given out.....well I am
not sure I know how they are given out. But remember, they are mostly given
to whomever asks for them. First. Period. I am waiting for IANA to qualify
and confim this but I wait and I wait.

I would like to have time to survey the registration process for all TLDs,
but no time. I was recently asked by Sun to register sun.xx in various
countries. None of these registries for ISO TLDs were run by a government.
Most governments don't know that they have been delegated a registry.


Kevin

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