who are we?

Who are we?

• APTLD (Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association) is an organization for ccTLD (country-code Top Level Domain) registries in Asia Pacific region.

• originally established in 1998, and in 2003 legally established in Malaysia.

APTLD region

Objectives• To promote skills development and

information exchange related to Internet domain names amongst members

• To provide a forum to discuss policy matters affecting Internet domain name related entities

• To act as an interface with Internet coordination bodies and other bodies involved in the Internet domain name operation

backgorund• Four regional organizations: AFTLD,

APTLD, CENTR, LACTLD

• The objectives of all regional organizations are to promote and participate in the development of high standard of Internet Country Code Top-Level Domain Registries (ccTLDs) for the benefit of its members and the Internet. The organizations have their own regional focus.

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• APTLD will achieve its objectives through consensus building, coordination and collaboration; respecting cultural and historical variations amongst the ccTLDs and their Local Internet Communities.

• APTLD is based on membership, and its activities are funded by membership fees.

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• Relationship with ICANN: An Interest in, but no commitment to ICANN– Most of us have some kind of relationship with

ICANN– More are members of the ccNSO– Very few have contract with ICANN

• Committed to Local mores

• See APTLD as an Independent facilitator of experience of peers

Membership

• Ordinary Members – 38

• Associate Members – 22

• Total – 60

• Join us: www.aptld.org/join

Ordinary Members

.ae .af .au .cc .cn

.cx .fj .hk .hm .in

.ir .jo .jp .kr .lk

.mn .mo .my .nf .np

.nr .nu .nz .pg .ph

.ps .sa .sb .sg .th

.tj .tk .tv .tw .vn

.wf .ws .iq

Associate Members

Vanuatu

ictQatar GDNS PIR Autonomica

Meetings

Three meetings a year:

• Sri Lanka –Jun27 – 28 2010– Focused on IDN

– IPV6

• Amman, Jordan–October30 –November 1, 2010

- IDN, DNSSEC and Risk Management of Domain Name Abuses

Meetings

• Hong Kong – February 2011 w/APRICOT

– AGM

– New Board

– Focused on marketing and promotion on your ccTLDs

– Different ccTLDs – organisational frameworks and registration policies

What do we discuss together ?• Registries running models• Marketing and promotions, growing of registration• Relationship with Registrars • Engagement with ICANN: IDN; JPA; IANA

function…• Governance of Internet• IDN( internationalized Domain Name)• Security: DDOS Attacks and DNSSEC• IPv6 in the ccTLDs• New GLTDs impact on ccTLDs

Trainings

• Sri Lanka APTLD: IPv6 by APNIC, Registry Operation training by NSRC/ICANN/ISOC

• Amman Jordan APTLD meeting: Advanced Registry Operation training by Delta/ICANN/ISOC

• Hong Kong APTLD meeting: Secure Registry Operation training by Delta/ICANN/ISOC

Surveys

• Questions on DNSSEC – October 2010

• Internal Issues – April 2010

• Overall Membership – December 2010 collaborating with all other regional TLD organizations:CENTR , LACTLD

• Examples:

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Registration Policy• All respondents applied first-come-first-

serve policy for domain names registration.

• All replies said they do not require the domain name to correspond with the name of the domain name holder in any way.

• Over 90% of them said domain names registered are transferrable.

Comments to ICANN

• Comments on ICANN’s Discussion Draft: Affirmation Reviews

• Comments on the Proposed Implementation Plan for Synchronised IDN ccTLDs

• Comments on Draft Final Report on Policy Aspects Regarding Introduction of Single Character IDN TLDs

IDN ccTLDs• APTLD is one of the major advocates: we

have the biggest demand on IDN in our region

• 24 out of 27 either delegated or under evaluation IDN ccTLDs are in our region

• Closely follow-up on the development, e.g. IDN ccPDP, JIG IDN WG

Inter-regional activities• Signed MOU with AFTLD, LACTLD and

CENTR at ICANN Cartagena meeting at end of last year to collaborate by exchanging information related to the security of the Domain Name System, best practices etc.

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Regional activities

• APTLD assisted organizing the AP Regional IGF in June 2010 in Hong Kong, – Very successful meeting, more than 200

attendees

• Sponsored several Internet governance workshops for young people: APNG

• assisting the Pacific IGF and ccTLD Workshop for New Caledonia, April 2011

Collaborations

Currently:

• APNIC

• APRICOT

• ICANN

• CENTR

• AfTLD

• LACTLD

Pursuing:• IGF

• IETF

Other activities

• New General Manager: Jian Zhang• Bi-weekly newsletter

Bi-Weekly newsletter• (.AE)

• TRA Encourages Trademark Owners to Seize Opportunity to register dotEmarat

• The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) extended the registration in the (dotEmarat) Sunrise period for an additional six months to give Trademark owners greater opportunity to take advantage of the unique offer.

• (http://www.aeda.ae/eng/news.php?id=97)

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• (.AU)

• Victorian Flood Affected Communities Given a Voice Online

• auDA has released a series of free websites for communities affected by recent flooding throughout Victoria.

• (http://www.auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-28012011/)

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• (.HK)

• 2010 Top 10 ‘.hk’ Website Competition Result Announced

• (https://www.hkirc.hk/company_info/events_news.jsp?item=211)

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Bi-weekly News letter• (.MY)• .my DOMAIN REGISTRY now supports Internationalized Domain Names for Jawi at the

Second Level• (http://www.domainregistry.my/readnews.php?id=110) •  • (AusRegistry)• AusRegistry International leading the new TLD charge at two US domain name

conferences• AusRegistry International will be sharing its expertise as a global leader in Domain

Name Registry Services to raise awareness of new Top-Level Domains (TLD) at two leading domain name industry conferences to be held in the US in February.

• (http://www.ausregistry.com/news-dotNXTnDomainfest.php) •  • (.RU)• The Commission on Examination of the Current Situation with the Open Registration of

Domain Names in IDN TLD .РФ has announced its conclusion• (http://cctld.ru/en/news/news_detail.php?ID=1261)

For More Information…

• www.aptld.org

• General Manager Jian Zhang: Jian@aptld.org

• Secretariat: sec@aptld.org

Thanks!

• April 2011

• Jian Zhang GM APTLD

• jian@aptld.org