[apnic-talk] Why is the APNIC in the Domain Name Business ?

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Subject: [apnic-talk] Why is the APNIC in the Domain Name Business ?
From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming at unety dot net>
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 11:38:11 -0500
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Why is the APNIC in the business of reserving .NET domain
names and deciding who should get them and who should not ?

Isn't this domain name speculation ?

Also...what country code does "AP" stand for ? By the convention being
established below xxNIC.NET implies that AP is the country code. Has
the APNIC.NET given itself a special exception ?


@@@@ http://teckla.apnic.net/annual_reports/1997/resource_status.htm#c4_1

"In addition, as an attempt to promote a common naming system for national
Network Information Centers in the AP region, APNIC reserved xxNIC.NET
domain names where "xx" is the 2-letter ISO-3166 country code for countries
in Asia and the Pacific Rim. As a result, APNIC has the authority to delegates
these xxNIC.NET domains to appropriate organizations in the Asia and Pacific
Rim regions and this delegation authority rests with the APNIC Executive Council.

To date, the following xxNIC.NET domains have been delegated:

THNIC.NET
AUNIC.NET
KRNIC.NET
TWNIC.NET
JPNIC.NET
MYNIC.NET

Requests have been received in the past for TONIC.NET (Tonga),
CNNIC.NET (China), SGNIC.NET (Singapore), PHNIC.NET (Philippines),
INNIC.NET (India), IDNIC.NET (Indonesia), LKNIC.NET (Sri Lanka),
VNNIC.NET (Viet Nam) and PKNIC.NET (Pakistan), however no additional
delegations have yet occurred as the organizations in question did not meet
the criteria (i.e., obtain a "rough consensus" of the Internet community in the
country in question and/or represent the government of the country in question
directly) for the delegation to occur prior to the end of 1997."

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Also...why would the APNIC be deciding on the above countries
if the IANA (old or new) has already delegated a TLD to someone
in the country ?

Does this mean that the APNIC does not agree with the IANA selections
and blocks these countries from getting domain names ?


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Jim Fleming
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