The Colombian government has been accused by its own internet community of fixing a contract so that just one North American company in particular is eligible to operate the .co top-level domain-name registry.
read more (the register uk)
In a tendering process that has become increasingly controversial, the Colombian government’s technology ministry produced a list of technical requirements for overseeing 2.3 million .co domain names. But many are saying that the requirements actively exclude everyone in the market except US-based registry operator Afilias.
While those technical requirements appear to be designed to ensure that only the largest registry operators in the market are eligible, one of criteria even excludes the company that has been running the .co registry for the past 10 years, Neustar: a fact that Neustar itself pointed out.
Despite having migrated more than 50 top-level domains in the past two years, UK-based Centralnic is also ineligible, thanks to a requirement to have, at some point, handled the migration of one million domain names at once.
And, incredibly, even VeriSign – the operator of the world’s largest registry, dot-com – may not eligible because of that requirement to have migrated one million domain names in one go. Other registry operators, including Donuts, which runs over 200 top-level domains, and Nominet, which runs over 13 million .uk names, as well as a number of other registries, are also excluded.
read more (the register uk)
read more (the register uk)
In a tendering process that has become increasingly controversial, the Colombian government’s technology ministry produced a list of technical requirements for overseeing 2.3 million .co domain names. But many are saying that the requirements actively exclude everyone in the market except US-based registry operator Afilias.
While those technical requirements appear to be designed to ensure that only the largest registry operators in the market are eligible, one of criteria even excludes the company that has been running the .co registry for the past 10 years, Neustar: a fact that Neustar itself pointed out.
Despite having migrated more than 50 top-level domains in the past two years, UK-based Centralnic is also ineligible, thanks to a requirement to have, at some point, handled the migration of one million domain names at once.
And, incredibly, even VeriSign – the operator of the world’s largest registry, dot-com – may not eligible because of that requirement to have migrated one million domain names in one go. Other registry operators, including Donuts, which runs over 200 top-level domains, and Nominet, which runs over 13 million .uk names, as well as a number of other registries, are also excluded.
read more (the register uk)
