2009 July 19
by MHB
Over the last week, I have talked about the .cm extension on several occasion (here, here, and here) and in the comments to the post it appears there is a lot of confusion in the domainer community as to ICANN’s role in ccTLD’s
The short answer is, they don’t have much.
ICANN territory is Top Level Domains, the 21 existing TLD’s and the new proposed g’TLD’s
Simply put ccTLD’s “are not subject to the rules for TLD’s that the ICANN community develops but in most cases are subject to the regulation of the country or region that they are based”
Here is the official explanation by ICANN:
“”"There are over 250 ccTLDs, some of which have a contract with ICANN; others of which have signed working agreements with ICANN; and some of which have yet to enter any formal agreement with ICANN. ICANN however does carry out what is known as the “IANA function” in which every ccTLD’s main address is listed so the rest of the Internet can find it”.
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