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

["Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" <michele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26 Apr 2011, at 00:37, Edmon Chung wrote:

> 
> 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.


.mobi's offices are in Dublin as well and their CEO etc., are based there (see: 
http://mtld.mobi/community/contact )
.tel is based in London (see: http://telnic.org/contact.html)


> 
> 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 - that's not entirely correct. See above

Regards

Michele


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