.ht - Haiti Network Information Center (www.nic.ht)

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

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• Contents
• Background
• Naming structure
• Naming Policies
• Domain names Stats
• Fee structure
• Organization
• Perspective

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• 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

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• .ht Naming structure

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• .ht Naming structure(2)
• Restricted zones

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

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• Domain names Stats

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• Domain names Stats(2)

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• Fee structure

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• Organization(Staff)

Escrow Agent

• RDDH Coordinator
• Admin contact
• Tech Contact
• Secretary

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• Technical infrastruture
• GenericWhois ?
• Remote access ssh
• Backup (tar/scp)
• Registration/Billing
• www/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
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• Whois data

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• 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)

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• maxlarson.henry_at_fds.edu.ht