The State of ccTLDs

At 07:57 PM 9/7/98 -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
>It looks like the ORSC and the other RSCs
>will have their work cut out for them just to
>get the legacy TLDs documented.
>
>@@@@@ http://www.apng.org/apcctld/minutes/inaugural.html
>
>"6.  Comments from ITU
>Bob Shaw, ITU.  Research on Domains.
>Mr. Shaw's department had surveyed 220+ ccTLD administrators,
>contacting people by email, phone, fax and even telex, to try and
>identify who is the correct contact point for each ccTLD and record
>their address details.  Current records of ccTLD administrative
>contacts are woefully out of date, and it is important that accurate
>records of who is the primary contact for ccTLDs is maintained.
>
>The data collected has been sent to the IANA, and is currently
>available from   as a database of
>"Internet ISO 3166-Based Top Level Domains".  This resource will be
>linked from the APccTLD web site"

I understand there will be a more comprehensive report soon, but
not from Bob's "department". It will include ALL tld's.

As Bob has discovered, there are many ccTLDs with no contact
information whatsoever. 11 I believe. I think there is also
one ctlsd withonly one nameserver listed and one with
only one working. 

It's interesting to note that the technical requirements
the new tld community has set for itself far exceeds the
vast majority of cctlds. I don't mean to slag anybody,
I'm just pointing this out.




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