At 16:38 -0800 3/10/12, Owen DeLong wrote:
The more telling fallacy here that really speaks to the heart of why I am dismayed and disappointed by ICANN's management of the whole TLD mess is the idea that a CCTLD is the property of a TLD operator to begin with.
This is not true. First, there is the ccTLD itself - it is an organization that is recognized has having legitimate claim to the country code. These do change at times. Then there is the ccTLD operator. Some ccTLDs "own and operate" and some do out source the technical operations, sometimes just DNS, sometimes everything (e.g., the database).
When out sourcing, the ccTLD "owner" makes contractural demands of the operator. If the ccTLD requires an in-country DNS presence that is easily arranged by the operator. (The operator reflects the cost in the price.) With the growing awareness of the role of the Internet, ccTLDs do not let the operator "do their thing."
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