[151058] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Sat Mar 10 12:05:45 2012
Date: 10 Mar 2012 12:01:18 -0500
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "David Conrad" <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <876DBCE2-60E2-40D1-84BA-792C285A41B7@virtualized.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> The IDN TLDs (to date, with the exception of the test IDN TLDs) are more properly considered ccTLDs as they are the localized version of country names.
Good point.
> Also, one could make a distinction between sponsored TLDs and generic TLDs, but that's probably splitting hairs.
I suppose, but they all have similar registry and registrar agreements
with ICANN, which is what makes them different from ccTLDs.
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