ccTLD Meeting @ Rome

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• ccTLD Meeting _at_ Rome
• Mar 2nd, 2004
• Ching Chiao, TWNIC
• chiao_at_twnic.net.tw

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Content

• Internet in Taiwan
• About TWNIC
• .tw Registry Service
• Other Projects

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Taiwan Profile
East China Sea

• Land Area
• - 36,000 KM2
• Population
• - 22,45 million
• Household
• - 6.9 million
• Per Capita Income
• - US 11,633
• PC penetration (household basis)
• - 72 (source TWNIC)

Pacific Ocean
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Internet in Taiwan
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Internet Penetration (As of Jan 2004)

• Internet Users 11.6M (12 yr old)
• Broadband to Household 3.3M
• -Average Speed 1.5M/64K
• -Average Cost per Month 35 USD
• Wireless LAN (802.11) 11
• Mobile Phone Internet (GPRS/PHS/3G) 6
• -Mobile Phone Penetration 111

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Outgoing bandwidth to Foreign Countries (2004.1,
source map.twnic.net.tw)
Rank From TW to Bandwidth (Mbps)
1 USA 27082.089
2 Japan 7856.008
3 Hong Kong 5412.520
4 China 3119.232
5 South Korea 766.528
6 Singapore 318.824
7 UK 200.256
8 Australia 50.880
9 Malaysia 50.880
10 Philippines 46.784
11 Macau 10.240
12 Thailand 4.096
13 Indonesia 2.048
14 Saudi Arabia 2.048
15 France 0.256
Total 44922.686
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Number of .TW Domain Names (as of Jan. 2004)

• ASCII Domain Names 133,244
• com.tw 96,129
• idv.tw 22,221
• org.tw 5,293
• net.tw 1,472
• edu.tw 4,124
• gov.tw 1,783
• ebiz/club/game.tw 774/880/578
• Chinese Domain Names20,887
• Chinese.tw

Restricted
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Domain Name Growth - ASCII
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Chinese.tw (BIG5)
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About TWNIC
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What is TWNIC?

• .tw Registry Service
• - Org. 1996 / Est. 1999
• - ICANN contracted ccTLD manager (2003)
• IP (v4/v6) Address Allocation
• - Founding member of APNIC

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TWNICs Organizational Structure
Board of Directors supervisors Chairman of Board
International Affairs Committee
Network Security Committee
Executive Director
Domain Name Committee
IP Address and Protocol Committee
Vice Executive Director
Domain Name Dept.
IP Dept.
Intl Affairs Public Relations Dept.
Technical Dept.
Admin. Dept.
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and theres more

• APTLD Secretariat
• ISOC Taiwan Chapter ? ALS
• Chinese Domain Name Consortium (CDNC) / JET
• ccNSO Member
• APNIC / ASO / PIR.

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.tw Registry Service
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.tw Registration service

• Registry-Registrar Model
• - 9 Domestic Registrars (Using API)
• - Rev. Share Model w/ Ceiling Price
• - Top 3 registrars take up 80 of total
  registration
• - Register-First-Pay-Later Policy
• - 18 ICANN Accredited Registrars Signed Up thru
  
• NeuLevel, More to Join (Using EPP 4)
• - Real-time registration
• Value-Added Services
• - Dynamic DNS
• - DNS security scan service
• - DNS online training
• - Browsers Plug-in for Chinese Domain Name

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Regulations

• Supervision and Guidance for Internet Protocol
  (IP) Address and Domain Name Registration and
  Management Services by DGT
• Guidelines for Administration of Domain Name
  Registration
• .tw Registration Agreement
• TWNIC Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy
• Guidelines for Authorization of Domain Name
  Registration Services

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Domain Name and Internet Protocol Regulatory
Hierarchy Diagram
Telecommunications Act (Article 20.1) Promulgated
by the Presidential Order


Supervision and Guidance for Internet Protocol
Address and Domain Name Registration and
Management Services (Article 7) Approved by DGT
Guidelines for Administration of Domain Name
Registration Approved by TWNICs Domain Name
Committee
Guidelines for Administration of IP Address
Registration Approved by TWNICs IP Committee
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TWNIC Domain Name Dispute Resolution

• Similar to current UDRP
• Two dispute resolution service providers are

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Other Projects

• Chinese.tw Promotion
• ASCII.tw under evaluation
• 0944 ENUM Trial Project
• - www.enum.org.tw
• Grand IPv6 Project
• - www.ipv6.org.tw

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Thank You