Dear Mr Moonesamy,
Do we have the number of active .mu domain names ? 80M a year would mean more than 53,000 domains.
Regards,
Frederic de Comarmond
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On Feb 28, 2015, at 0:19, "S Moonesamy" <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com<mailto:sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>> wrote:
Dear Sir,
I am copying this message to the Mauritius Internet Users mailing list as I represented the group in a meeting of the Multi-Stakeholder Forum which was set up by the Ministry of Technology, Communication and Innovation. I am also copying the message to the Information and Communication Technologies Authority.
Thank you for confirming your interesting in participating in a meeting of .mu registrars in Mauritius. I am waiting for the other .mu registrars to reply before suggesting a date and venue for the meeting.
I posted my notes of that meeting to the mailing list. It was mentioned during the meeting that the Government of Mauritius is for a re-delegation of the .mu ccTLD. The discussions on the mailing list point to the Mauritius Internet Users being for a re-delegation of the .mu ccTLD. The outcome of the meeting was to set up a small select committee to propose a way forward. Mr Gentil will be representing the .mu registrars on that committee. Mr Dabeesing will be representing the government side.
In my opinion, it is useful to talk about the problems related to the .mu ccTLD to find out whether there are real problems or not. After that talk we can discuss about the alternatives.
I'll comment about the .mu ccTLD. It is has been mentioned that the ccTLD is worth Rs 800 million. Let's assume that a .mu ccTLD is making Rs 80 million a year. It's unlikely that the operation (DNS servers and Whois servers) and providing support to .mu registrars would cost that much. There is a .mu Policy Development Process at
http://www.nic.mu/index.php/policy-development.html It states that the procedures are intended to:
- provide ample opportunity for participation and comment by all interested parties
- establish widespread Internet community consensus
I am not aware of any .mu policy where the local Internet Community had the opportunity to participate and comment. I have not seen any public message to establish widespread Internet community consensus.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Fri Feb 27 2015 - 20:33:10 PST