Domain name registration at IIT - CNR ITALY Stefano Trumpy International Relations Unit of the 00it00registry
Italian National Research Council Institute for Informatics and Telematics
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Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) target: suitably respond to the challenges launched by the information and communication technologies IIT became operative since 1st March 2002, but its background is dated in the late 60's, within CNUCE Institute IIT exhibits a good harmony between research and technological activities: two aspects of one single goalInstitute for Informatics and Telematics
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The Registry activity
December 1987: IANA approved the ccTLD00t00and assigned the role of Italian Registry to CNR-CNUCE Today IIT-CNR acts as the Italian Registry which is in charge of assigning domain names within the country code top level domain 00t00(ISO 3166-1) IIT interacts with more than 2.500 providers/maintainers (Registrars) At present, more than 950.000 domain names are registered under the ccTLD 00t00/font> Registration can be submitted by natural or juridical person of the EU CountriesInstitute for Informatics and Telematics
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Organization of the registry
The function of 00anager00of 00it00is performed inside a department of a research Institute of the National Council of Research; the administrative contact is the Director of the Institute; Up to December 2003, the regulatory function has been performed by an external organization composed by experts in DNS, called Naming Authority; in this way, the registry didn00 have direct responsibility of the rules applied; A transition is on going: the constituencies of the Local Internet Community have selected their representatives to form a committee for the rules (policy board) acting under the umbrella of the registry; that committee will include representatives of the government; The constitution of an independent entity, with the participation of CNR, is under evaluation.5
The Italian Registry Internal Organisation
Operations
Legal aspects
External Relations
International Relations
Director
IIT/RA
Systems
Steering
Committees
About 50 people including staff-operators, administrative persons and technicians (35 m*y equivalent)
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Registry-Registrars like, but not exactly The Registry also interacts with the Registrants At present the Registry manages both electronic and paper documents The Letter of Assumption of Responsibility (LAR) is received on paper We are moving to electronic papers digitally signedRegistrant
Registry
Registrar
The Italian Registry External Organisation
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Registration of new domain names: 4,91 EUR + VAT Change of registrar: 4,91 EUR + VAT Change of domain name assignee: 4,91 EUR + VAT Maintenance rate: 4,91 EUR + VATThe Italian Registry Tariffs (years 2002-2004)
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Number of registered domains
The Italian Registry Statistics
The active domains are ~90% of the registered domains
Juridical person deregulation
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Number of contestations at the registry from 1998 to 2003
The Italian Registry Statistics
deregulation
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Types of contestation procedures
The Italian Registry Statistics
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Reassignment procedures
(Contestations with judicial action from 1998 to 2003)
The Italian Registry Statistics
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Running Domain Names: > 950.000 Average registration time : 4,8 hours Annual fee/domain name: 4,91 euro+ VAT Number of 00com00and 00net00names registered in Italy: slightly more than 40% of those registered under 00it00/font> The estimated number of Internet users in Italy is today around 23 millions Annual budget: about 5.000.000 euro Personnel: about 50 people (35 m*y equivalent)The Italian Registry in numbers
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ENUM Italian trial should start before the end of the year Contacts are in progress with AGCOM and the Ministry of Communications for running the teer 1 A presentation of IIT proposal will be done in October 2003 during an ENUM meeting organised by AGCOMThe Italian Registry ENUM status
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Evolutions demanded by the LIC and/or planned by the registry
Eliminate limitations for physical persons Adoption of IDN Eliminate the letter for assumption of responsibility ? Improving security and stability Improving WHOIS services also taking into account national and European directives Harmonizing with 00eu00public policy directives and operations Setting up of a PKI Certification Authority This issues and others will be addressed soon by the newly constituted policy boarddownload Domain name registration at IIT - CNR ITALY Stefano
