RE: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] Status report from the writing team

["Edmon Chung" <edmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Eric,

To be more accurate, DotAsia, as the Sponsoring Organization for ".ASIA" 
oversees the policy development processes for the registry from the HK 
headquarters.  And as a not-for-profit organization, our headquarters are 
focused on community projects that promote internet development and adoption in 
Asia.

The headquarters also maintain the finances and registrar balances from the 
Hong Kong office.  And we have staff stationed in Vancouver for Registrar 
relations and in Beijing.  

You are correct that Afilias is our technology services provider.  The 
infrastructure for the registry database I believe is operated from North 
America.  The DNSes are of course distributed globally.  I believe part of the 
technical support is provided out of the India office as well.

This I think should be a very different situation than Afilias and .INFO with 
their entity in Dublin.

Edmon



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-soac-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:owner-soac-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric Brunner-Williams
Sent: April 26, 2011 7:03 AM
To: Evan Leibovitch
Cc: soac-newgtldapsup-wg@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] Status report from the writing team


Evan,

Part 2, bullet item 4, final two sentences reads:
"The majority of the current 21 New gTLD Registries are located in USA 
or Europe. There is one in Hong Kong and absolutely none in a 
developing country."


The .asia registry technical function ("the registry") is not located 
in Hong Kong, it is performed by Afilias, from Afilias' North American 
registry services platform, however it is correct that the .asia 
registry registrar liaison function ("sales") and marketing function 
("marketing") and web presence ("web") are located in Hong Kong.

I mention this as Afilias also frequently represents itself as being 
outside of North America, referring to its Dublin, Ireland corporate 
tax entity.

To the best of my knowledge, the only gTLD registry operators not 
located in Reston and Toronto are .museum, operated in Stockholm until 
2009, and subsequently in Dortmund, and .cat, operated in Dortmund.

Restated, 19 of the 21 New gTLD Registries are located in North 
America. The remaining 2 are located in Europe. One registry maintains 
a marketing and sales presence in Asia.

Eric