ccTLD Presentation for KIccTLD Presentation for KI

byMr Bwanouia AberaamManager Engineering

PRESENTATION FORMATPRESENTATION FORMAT• BRIEF BACKGROUND• CURRENT REGISTRATION POLICIES • DOMAIN STRUCTURE • HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN USE• STAFFING AND RELEVANT

REGULATORY BODIES • FEE STRUCTURE / FUNDING MODEL• FUTURE PLANS

BACKGROUND• In 2003, Telecom Services Kiribati Ltd (TSKL),

fully owned government company was given the mandate by the government to run the ccTLD service and be the manager

• In February 2005 the Telecommunications Acts was amended, a regulatory body is formed called Telecommunications Authority of Kiribati (TAK). It was given the mandate by law to manage the state resources, one of which is the country code TLD (KI).

• Starting from 1 July 2005, TAK was started managing TLD under the current legislation and be the current manager for ccTLD (KI)

CURRENT REGISTRATION POLICIES

• Our current policies are in line with the ICANN on Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.

• Starting from July 1st, we will shift to adopt the Council of Country Code Administrators (CoCCA). This is due to migration from the current system to their system.

DOMAIN STRUCTURE

• Currently, we sell domain names at the top and second levels.

• For TLD - .ki• For Second Level – biz.ki; com.ki; edu.ki;

info.ki; net.ki; org.ki, and gov.ki• When we adopt the new system additional

second level would be included like mobile.ki,

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN USE

Current System• Hardware: Servers Proliant HP, cisco

routers

• Software: Operating system is - Mandriva LINUX : Registry software is a non Shared Registry Software

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN USE

New System (Software)• CoCCA software – an EPP compatible shared

registry system written and maintained by CoCCA members. Source code is free for CoCCA members

• Has two modules an EPP shared registry and a basic registrar system

• Uses the postqres database (http://www.postqresql.org)

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN USE

• Uses the Resin Java Application Server (http://www.caucho.com)

• TLD name servers used BIND and run on FreeBSD

• The Registrar module uses the database driven powerDNS system (http://www.powerdns.com) and no zone generation required

• Centos – Test environment and FreeBSD for nameservers

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN USE

New System• Run it on Apple G5X serve rack mount

servers.• Run OTE (test environment) on Intel boxes

running on Centos• Run nameservers on intel boxes with

FreeBSD• Network Operation Centre (NOC) – 10mb

link & 1.5 racks at a tier- 1 carrier with bio-metric 24/7 access racks in Sydney AU

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN USE

• ¼ rack with a TLD DNS server and a mirror of the software (disaster recovery) in Seattle Washington.

• Use cisco routers and sonicwall firewalls

• Each member encouraged to maintain a local mirror server Intel box for data escrow and disaster recovery

STAFFING AND RELEVANT REGULATORY BODIES

• Staffing: Currently, only 1 staff looks after the daily management of the ccTLD – Manager Engineering. For maintenance it is the responsibility of the host – TSKL

• New System – For maintenance it is the responsibility of the ccTLD Manager and CoCCA members who maintained the servers at the NOC in Sydney

STAFFING AND RELEVANT REGULATORY BODIES

• RELEVANT REGULATORY BODIESCurrently, Telecommunications Authority of Kiribati (TAK) which the regulator for the Telecommunications Sector in Kiribati, which is also the manager of the ccTLD for Kiribati is the only regulatory body under the current legislation

FEE STRUCTURE / FUNDING MODEL

• Currently TLD .ki annual and renewal fee is AUD1000

• Second Level Domains – AUD150 annual and renewal fee.

• All proceeds from TLD and Second Level Domains go to the “Telecom Development Fund”. This fund is solely for the development of the Telecommunications infrastructure in Kiribati.

FUTURE PLANS

• To completely cut over from the current operator which is TSKL by the end of June and start with new system 1 July 2006

• To make policies that are in line with the law of Kiribati, the uniform domain name dispute resolution of ICANN and current best practices by other ccTLD operators

FUTURE PLANS

• To review the annual fee and renewal fee to attract more customers

• Will allow other accredited registrars to sell domain names for ki

• Recruit more staff if the need arise in relation to the service.

• To continue abreast our staff with the development in the operation of the service by sending them to workshops or trainings like this one.