[ncdnhc-discuss] Redelegation of .us Country-Code Top-Level Domain

[Chun Eung Hwi]

Dear Members,

What do you think about this?


>From http://www.lextext.com/icann/index.html


.US Redelegation was an "Emergency". 

No sooner had I written the item below, than this popped up on the ICANN
web site suggesting that "ICANN authorized an emergency redelegation" of
.us to NeuStar. Read it carefully. It's short, but speaks volumes. (and it
doesn't change the point I made about the DOC.)  -- November 19, 2001 --

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Redelegation of .US Complete. 

>From all appearances, the redelegation and transition of .us from Verisign
to Neustar is complete. The nameservers for us. now point exclusively to
three servers maintained by NeuStar (last week the NeuStar servers were
just three of eight nameservers in use). And, as of Friday, 16 November
2001, the IANA database was updated to designate NeuStar as the
sponsoring, administrative and technical contacts. Unlike the recent
redelegation of .au, no IANA report accompanied, much less recommended,
this change. What this makes clear is that ICP-1 (and RFC 1591) have no
application to the operation of the .us TLD. The implications aren't
trivial. The U.S. Department of Commerce has retained policy authority
over some aspects of DNS administration. And if the Department of Commerce
has chosen to follow its own practices, and not ICANN's, when redelegating
this particular ccTLD, why could it not do the same for creating new
gTLDs?  -- November 19, 2001 --


Regards,

Chun Eung Hwi
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Chun Eung Hwi
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