[dns-wg] retiring old ccTLDs

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:49:44AM -0800, David Conrad wrote:
> Max,
> 
> If you believe IANA should depart from historical and existing  
> policies with regards to delegations and removals of two-letter top- 
> level domains, I would suggest you initiate an ICANN policy  
> development process within the appropriate supporting organization 
> (s).  Until that time, IANA is pretty much constrained to follow  
> existing policies despite the fact that some people might be making  
> money registering names for a country that no longer exists.

Or, convince the people maintaining the iso list, to re-add SU as at least
a reserved TLD, as the country code still seems to be used.

Politically it's better to solve the problem there then try to have
ICANN make an exception.

Regards,

Andre Koopal
> 
> Rgds,
> -drc
> 
> On Nov 1, 2006, at 1:13 AM, Max Tulyev wrote:
> 
> >Doug Barton wrote:
> >
> >>My point is, we actually do have a policy here, and the SU operators
> >>are running their operation with deliberate disregard for it. If you
> >>don't like the policy, there are places to debate it, however since
> >>this isn't one of them, I think I'll leave it at that.
> >
> >You also can take a look at official SU statistics, for example,
> >previous month:
> >
> >http://stat.nic.ru/en_su/2006/10/31/trend-20061031.shtml
> >http://stat.nic.ru/en_su/2006/10/31/summ_trend-20061031.shtml
> >
> >This domain grows even it have huge price (
> >http://www.nic.ru/en/index.html ). So people really need it.
> >
> >-- 
> >WBR,
> >Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253 at FIDO)
> >
> 

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