[Chapter-delegates] ccTLD management

[Borka Jerman Blazic]

Dear all,

In Slovenia the ccTLD is from 1992 in the hands of the Educational and 
"academic" network, which
owned by Slovenian government. There is no body that have an insight in 
the politics of .SI
registration. The applied policy was very restricted, e.g..g. we were not
allowed to register as "ISOC".si, (in 1996)  or "Internet Society", they 
requested
we to add the word "drustvo" - meaning "society". So our domain is: 
"isoc-drustvo.si".
They were protecting their monopole regarding all Internet issues (they are
the biggest ISPs in the country) and the monopole   is still in place.
They are member of  EUrId as well together with Czechs and in all bodies 
dealing with domain registration
policy.

We have been registered under our legislation rules at the Slovenian 
court as
"society of professionals" and that was the excuse for requesting the 
word "drustvo" to be part
of our sub-domain.
However, few years ago the registration of sub-domains was allowed to 
several registrars in the country that
are charging the registration (the restriction of the dictated "sub-domans"
was relaxed), but the TLD is still in the hands of that organization  
without no national body (the director of ARNES).

With regards,

Borka

ISOC Slovenia

Dne 12.5.2013 17:53, pis(e Grigori Saghyan:
> Dear Elver,
> In Armenia .am ccTLD manager  is the "Internet Society" NGO, or in short
> form- ISOC.AM. (At the same time this NGO is ISOC Armenian Chapter).
>
> Practically all Armenian ISPs and registrars have their representatives
> in ISOC.AM as members.  ISOC.AM had founded in 2000 a commercial
> structure, 100 % of shares of this commercial structure belong to
> ISOC.AM, the name of this structure is "Internet Technology Center" -
> ITC. This was done because there is a difference in taxation for NGOs
> and commercial structures. All registrars, as commercial structures,
> have their agreements with  ITC, not with ISOC.AM directly.
>
> As a ccTLD manager ISOC.AM had only one clime from one registrar in
> 2007,  when this registrar applied to Armenian Anti-Monopoly commission
> with complaint on pricing policy. As a result, Anti-Monopoly Commission
> recognized ITC as a monopolist, which is reasonable - today there is
> only one .am ccTLD.
>
> ITC now is under Anti-Monopoly Commission regulation,   have  to
> substantiate domain registration fees, have to  provide
> non-discriminatory policy, prepare reports for the Commission, etc.
>
> But at the same time ITC is under control of ISOC.AM - as a subsidiary.
> All problems possible to discuss inside ISOC.AM, in worst case, if it
> will be impossible to have balanced solution inside ISOC.AM, one  can
> apply to Anti-Monopoly Commission.
>
> Grigori Saghyan
> ISOC.AM
>
>
>
>
> On 12.05.2013 8:47, Elver Loho wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> Quick question: what role does your chapter play in the management of your country's specific top level domain?
>>
>> I'm wondering, because we occasionally have some disagreement with the .ee manager, but other than being able to talk to them, we have no say in things. Is this the case elsewhere as well?
>>
>> Best,
>> Elver
>> .ee chapter
>>
>> elver.loho at gmail.com
>> +372 5661 6933
>> skype: elver.loho
>> Sent from my iPhone
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