1. 1.ht - Haiti Network Information Center (www.nic.ht) Geogetown - University of Guyana February 14, 2007 Max Larson Henry ISOC ccTLD Workshop

2. 2 Contents Background Naming structure Naming Policies Domain names Stats Fee structure Organization Perspective

3. 3 Background Upon its establishment in March 1997, the.ht ccTLD was delegated by Dr. Jon Postel (then in charge of the IANA function at the Information Sciences Institute) to Jean Claude Filien, of HINTELFOCUS, as administrative contact, and Domain Administrator, of HINTELFOCUS, as the technical contact. In March 2002, ICANN received an expression of interest to redelegate the.ht ccTLD to the Consortium FDS/RDDH. The Government of Haiti supported this request. The Haiti Government, through the Haitian Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications (MTPTC), recognized Consortium FDS/RDDH as the appropriate delegee for the.ht ccTLD, and expressed an interest to have Consortium FDS/RDDH formally recognized by ICANN as the delegee for the.ht ccTLD Formal Request of the Consortium FDS/RDDH for Redelegation of.ht Top- Level Domain – Approved January 2004 Operations : May 19, 2004

4. 4.ht Naming structure

5. 5.ht Naming structure(2) Restricted zones

6. 6 Policies Technical requirements Two Working name server Zonecheck succesful Domain name requirements Not generic (Country, Internet Protocol…) Not offensive.ht Is an Open registry

7. 7 Domain names Stats

8. 8 Domain names Stats(2)

9. 9 Fee structure

10. 10 Organization(Staff) RDDH Coordinator Admin contact Tech Contact Secretary Escrow Agent

11. 11 Technical infrastruture GenericWhois ? Remote access : ssh Backup (tar/scp) Registration/Billing www/mail.nic.htwww/mail.nic.ht (rh, Apache, coldFusion, Social info…), SGBD (rh, mysql) 128 Kbps (satellite) / IP from the Internet provider 128 Kbps (fiber) / IP from the Internet provider

12. 12 Whois data

13. 13 Perspective Security Robustness Flexibility Application (registration, whois, zone file generator …) Obtain resources from LACNIC (Minimum allocation policy) Increased reliability, trustworthiness Whois, anycast ? Better response time Change convention (less restriction on name) HIXP (Working Process) Hosting an Anycast F-Root Copy

14. 14 maxlarson.henry@fds.edu.ht