Problems with Albanian Domains

Dear Elvis,

The RIPE database is not an authoritative source of information for
domains. The RIPE NCC does not register domain names. The information
on domain names in the RIPE Network Management Database has no effect
on operations; it is there as a convenient reference. It is not a
domain name registry that is maintained by the country code Top Level
Domain (ccTLD) administrators. There is no general obligation of any
kind to put a newly registered domain name in the RIPE database, so
there is no guarantee that all of the registered and operational
domains will be present there. In fact, RIPE NCC encourages the
ccTLDs in its region to set up their own whois databases.

You can find the contact of the country code TLDs on the
web-page of IANA (The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority),
see http://www.iana.org.

Regards,

Engin Gunduz
RIPE NCC Database Group


On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 Elvis.Samson at ernst-young.de wrote:

> Hi,
>
> why is the albanian domain inima.al accessible through internet, but not
> listed in the ripe database? there are some european TLDs, where I couldn't
> find accessible websites in the ripe database. is there a reason for this
> or an error?
>
> regards and thanks for your help,
> elvis samson
>
>