The Swedish ccTLD .se

NIC-SE Network Information Centre Sweden AB1

II-stiftelsen - www.iis.se

Managed by:

The Foundation for Internet Infrastructure(In Swedish: Stiftelsen för Internetinfrastruktur or in short II-stiftelsen/IIS)

Subsidary:

NIC-SE (Network Information Centre Sweden)Anders Janson, Chairman of the board

Per-Olof Josefsson, CEO

The Swedish ccTLD .se


Comparison relative other European ccTLD

• Legal status of registry

Private company 6

Part of academic network 6

Association 4

Foundation 4

Government agency 3

Telecom Operator 1

Others 9

According to CENTR Survey 2002


This presentation

• Structure and figures for .se

• Major events during 2003

liberalization april

introduction of IDN october

legislationproposal for .se



TPTEST – band width testA Freeware program that measures the speed of (the band width) of the Internet connection. Founded by the IT commission. Further developed by IIS in conjunction with PTS and Swedish Consumer Protection Board (Konsumentverket). URL tptest.iis.se

Internetdagarna (The Internet Days)A yearly two day conference about the Internet infrastructure, security and usage. Gathers most of the Swedish Internet community.www.iis.se/Internetdagarna

Investigation and research workII-stiftelsen does their own investigations, supports research and standardization work within among others DNS. In 2002 a new Internet study was initiated.

International standardization workII-stiftelsen contribute to IETF:s international standardization work for the Internet.

II-stiftelsen’s other areas (1/2)



International representationParticipates in international forums, ICANN, IETF, Centr.

ENUMII-stiftelsen and NIC-SE work in conjunction with PTS to evaluate ENUM (telephone number in the DNS-system).

A body for commenting legislation etcII-stiftelsen is the body considering proposed legislation for among other issues IT-infrastructure.

DNSSECII-stiftelsen participates actively in the development of a standard for safer DNS-request on the Internet.

DNSTESTII-stiftelsen develops a tool to control DNS-configurations within .se.

II-stiftelsen’s other areas (2/2)


.se registration development

Number active domains in .se domännamn

96 574 106 418

214 417

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2001 2002 2003


Transition to domainrules 3.0

Year 2003

Receivingperiod

Wednesday2 april13:00

Thursday27 march 16:00

Rule 2

Wednesday9 april 12:00

Monday28 april13:00

Open applications rule 3.0All applications are assigned the same timestamp

Normal registration starts

NIC-SE databasemailboxes

registrar

application

Message to registrars and endusers

via e-mail

Different priorities

Applications buffering according first come – first serve

Wednesday23 april13:00Randomselection

Allocationperiod


Transition statistics

• 106.325 registrations 31 dec 2002

• 110.763 registrations 31 mars 2003

• 41.757 registrations 2-9 april

Number of applications total: 62.319 Number of duplicates total: 5.188 Increase with 38% 5189 domainnames with more than one applicant (25122)

• 157.927 registrations may 2003

• 214 417 registrations 31 dec 2003

• An increase over 100% (101,5%) during 2003


Example of a Swedish Newspaper


Which characters to include in first phase?

• Why ”å, ä, ö, ü, é” for .se? Why not only å, ä och ö in the first phase?Why only these characters?

• ”I strongly recommend the characters Å Ä Ö É Ü in the first phase of the IDN introduction. These characters has been part of the national census bureaux since the time of computerizing it, see Swedish standard document SIS 63 21 27 (SS 63 21 27 version 2 1984) och Statskontorets technical norm nr 3 (3:2 from 1984; 3:3 from 1993).”

Wolf ArfvidsonSenior AdvisorStatskontoret/The Swedish Agency for Public Management


Introduction of IDN in .se

From registrars via e-mail

Time schedule

Receivingperiod Allocationperiod

Tuesday14 october 13:00

Tuesday21 october 12:00

15 november – 1 december

Pre- IDN-autoreg

Thursday23 october12:00

NormalRegistrationIDN-domainname

Priority queue Normal registration IDN-domainname

Continous registration ”classic” domainname


Sunrise rules at the introduction of IDN

• If there exists a previous registration for the same name but without diaresis you get priority to registraing the same with diaresis according to prevoius published table: Translitteration å ---> a, aa

ä ---> a, ae ö ---> o, oe

ü ---> u, ueé ---> e

• Priority gets all that has registered before 11 june 2003 (time for the deciscion of this rule was taken).

• Only one registration allowed per classical domainname

• In the case two or mor applicants apply for the same name, the one one with oldest registration date has precedence.


Statistics for the IDN introduction

• Totally for the period 14.822 correct applications was received

4.619 priority registrations

10.203 new registrations

• The number of unique applications was 8.764.

The priority queue contained 4.619 applications, of which 4.604 was unique. For 15 domainname the several applicants, in which case the ones with the oldest registartion dates was allocated the name.

The new registration queue contained 10.203 applications for 5.090 unique domainnames. For 962 domainname there was more than one applicants. Selection of applicants was made according to random selection (lottery) in the same way as for the liberalisation transition in april 2003.


The most popular domainnames

sök.se 206båt.se 143varumärken.se 119öl.se 103kläder.se 97göteborg.se 93malmö.se 68mäklare.se 59fastighetsbyrå.se 57domän.se 53

åre.se 47köp.se 47åhlens.se 47domännamn.se 44sälj.se 44båtar.se 44hälsa.se 43företag.se 43åhléns.se 42böcker.se 36


.se relation with the government

• Probably the most analysed cc in the world…

• 2000 The Domain Name Committee

• 2003 The committee implementing the e-.communication directive proposes:”a law regarding the national top-level domain for Sweden”


The Domain Name committe

• IIS be contracted by government

• Government to appoint two members of IIS board

• New simpler rules without prior assessment


Law regarding .se

• Purpose?

• Objective

Administered efficient, robust and secure, protect common interest

• Supervising authority

Access to information, equipment, premises

Empowered to issue injunctions

Inspection fee (2 euro/domain)

Price control


Law regarding .se - cont

• IP-rights in database recognized

• Obligation to transfer registration data to new administrator

• Safety copy of database to be kept with supervising authority


IIS main objections

• Conflicts the constitution ”Lex in casuae”

• Conflicts the European convention on human right

• Conflicts basic rules of competion and freedom of trade


What´s next

• National Post and Telecommunications Agency to make a survey regarding which functions in the operation and administration of top-level domains that are essential to ensure security in the DNS

• To be continued

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