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The Swedish ccTLD .se
Managed by The Foundation for Internet
Infrastructure(In Swedish Stiftelsen för
Internetinfrastruktur or in short
II-stiftelsen/IIS) Subsidary NIC-SE (Network
Information Centre Sweden)Anders Janson,
Chairman of the board Per-Olof Josefsson, CEO
II-stiftelsen - www.iis.se
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Comparison relative other European ccTLD

• Legal status of registry
• Private company 6
• Part of academic network 6
• Association 4
• Foundation 4
• Government agency 3
• Telecom Operator 1
• Others 9

According to CENTR Survey 2002
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This presentation

• Structure and figures for .se
• Major events during 2003
• liberalization april
• introduction of IDN october
• legislationproposal for .se

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II-stiftelsens other areas (1/2)

• TPTEST band width testA Freeware program that
  measures the speed of (the band width) of the
  Internet connection. Founded by the IT
  commission. Further developed by IIS in
  conjunction with PTS and Swedish Consumer
  Protection Board (Konsumentverket). URL
  tptest.iis.se
• Internetdagarna (The Internet Days)A yearly two
  day conference about the Internet infrastructure,
  security and usage. Gathers most of the Swedish
  Internet community.www.iis.se/Internetdagarna
• Investigation and research workII-stiftelsen
  does their own investigations, supports research
  and standardization work within among others DNS.
  In 2002 a new Internet study was initiated.
• International standardization workII-stiftelsen
  contribute to IETFs international
  standardization work for the Internet.

II-stiftelsen - www.iis.se
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II-stiftelsens other areas (2/2)

• International representationParticipates in
  international forums, ICANN, IETF, Centr.
• ENUMII-stiftelsen and NIC-SE work in conjunction
  with PTS to evaluate ENUM (telephone number in
  the DNS-system).
• A body for commenting legislation
  etcII-stiftelsen is the body considering
  proposed legislation for among other issues
  IT-infrastructure.
• DNSSECII-stiftelsen participates actively in the
  development of a standard for safer DNS-request
  on the Internet.
• DNSTESTII-stiftelsen develops a tool to control
  DNS-configurations within .se.

II-stiftelsen - www.iis.se
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.se registration development
Number active domains in .se domännamn
250 000
214 417
200 000
150 000
106 418
96 574
100 000
50 000
0
2001
2002
2003
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Transition to domainrules 3.0
Year 2003
Wednesday 23 april 1300 Random selection
Monday28 april 1300
Wednesday 2 april 1300
Wednesday 9 april 1200
Thursday 27 march 1600
Receivingperiod
Allocationperiod
Rule 2
Open applications rule 3.0 All applications are
assigned the same timestamp
Normal registration starts
Applications buffering according first come
first serve
application
NIC-SE database
mailboxes
Different priorities
via e-mail
registrar
Message to registrars and endusers
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Transition statistics

• 106.325 registrations 31 dec 2002
• 110.763 registrations 31 mars 2003
• 41.757 registrations 2-9 april
• Number of applications total 62.319
• Number of duplicates total 5.188
• Increase with 38
• 5189 domainnames with more than one applicant
  (25122)
• 157.927 registrations may 2003
• 214 417 registrations 31 dec 2003
• An increase over 100 (101,5) during 2003

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Example of a Swedish Newspaper
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Which characters to include in first phase?

• Why å, ä, ö, ü, é for .se?
• Why not only å, ä och ö in the first phase?
• Why only these characters?
• I strongly recommend the characters Å Ä Ö É Ü in
  the first phase of the IDN introduction. These
  characters has been part of the national census
  bureaux since the time of computerizing it, see
  Swedish standard document SIS 63 21 27 (SS 63 21
  27 version 2 1984) och Statskontorets technical
  norm nr 3 (32 from 1984 33 from 1993).Wolf
  ArfvidsonSenior AdvisorStatskontoret/The
  Swedish Agency for Public Management

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Introduction of IDN in .se
Time schedule
Tuesday 14 october 1300
Tuesday 21 october 1200
15 november 1 december
Thursday 23 october 1200
Normal Registration IDN-domainname
Receivingperiod
Allocationperiod
Priority queue Normal registration
IDN-domainname
From registrars via e-mail
Pre- IDN-autoreg
Continous registration classic domainname
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Sunrise rules at the introduction of IDN

• If there exists a previous registration for the
  same name but without diaresis you get priority
  to registraing the same with diaresis according
  to prevoius published table
  Translitteration å ---gt a, aa
  ä ---gt a, ae
  ö ---gt o, oe
  
  ü ---gt u, ue é
  ---gt e
• Priority gets all that has registered before 11
  june 2003 (time for the deciscion of this rule
  was taken).
• Only one registration allowed per classical
  domainname
• In the case two or mor applicants apply for the
  same name, the one one with oldest registration
  date has precedence.

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Statistics for the IDN introduction

• Totally for the period 14.822 correct
  applications was received
• 4.619 priority registrations
• 10.203 new registrations
• The number of unique applications was 8.764.
• The priority queue contained 4.619 applications,
  of which 4.604 was unique. For 15 domainname the
  several applicants, in which case the ones with
  the oldest registartion dates was allocated the
  name.
• The new registration queue contained 10.203
  applications for 5.090 unique domainnames. For
  962 domainname there was more than one
  applicants. Selection of applicants was made
  according to random selection (lottery) in the
  same way as for the liberalisation transition in
  april 2003.

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The most popular domainnames
sök.se 206 båt.se 143 varumärken.se 119 öl.se
103 kläder.se 97 göteborg.se 93 malmö.se 68 mäk
lare.se 59 fastighetsbyrå.se 57 domän.se 53
åre.se 47 köp.se 47 åhlens.se 47 domännamn.se 4
4 sälj.se 44 båtar.se 44 hälsa.se 43 företag.se
43 åhléns.se 42 böcker.se 36
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.se relation with the government

• Probably the most analysed cc in the world
• 2000 The Domain Name Committee
• 2003 The committee implementing the
  e-.communication directive proposesa law
  regarding the national top-level domain for
  Sweden

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The Domain Name committe

• IIS be contracted by government
• Government to appoint two members of IIS board
• New simpler rules without prior assessment

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Law regarding .se

• Purpose?
• Objective
• Administered efficient, robust and secure,
  protect common interest
• Supervising authority
• Access to information, equipment, premises
• Empowered to issue injunctions
• Inspection fee (2 euro/domain)
• Price control

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Law regarding .se - cont

• IP-rights in database recognized
• Obligation to transfer registration data to new
  administrator
• Safety copy of database to be kept with
  supervising authority

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IIS main objections

• Conflicts the constitution Lex in casuae
• Conflicts the European convention on human right
• Conflicts basic rules of competion and freedom of
  trade

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Whats next

• National Post and Telecommunications Agency to
  make a survey regarding which functions in the
  operation and administration of top-level domains
  that are essential to ensure security in the DNS
• To be continued