.th

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.th

• Thailand Network Information Center
• October 09, 2004

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Background

• .th is deligated to AIT in July 1988
• First domain deligated under .th is ait.th,
  chula.th, psu.th
• In 1991 .th domain name deligation is done under
  second-level domains
• .ac.th, .co.th, .or.th, .go.th
• 1992 hand on .th administration to Chulalongkorn
  University.

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THNIC Background

• 1994 Thailand Network Information Center (THNIC)
  is set up by AIT and Chulalongkorn University to
  administrate .th domain
• 1988-1999 Domain name registration under .th is
  free of charge
• In March 1999 T.H.NIC Co., Ltd. is established to
  handle registration including billing and DNS.
• THNIC become a policy planner for .th
• In May 2002 Thai Name Server Co., Ltd. is
  established to be registry of .th
• T.H.NIC Co., Ltd. become the first registrar for
  .th

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THNIC Structure
THailand Network Information Center (THNIC)
Policy Planning
Registry
Thai Name Server Co., Ltd.
Registrar
T.H.NIC Co., Ltd.
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Registrar Fee Structure

• Future plan
• Not yet Decide
• Only one registrar
• T.H.NIC Co., Ltd. Funding the registry.
• 30 of the income go to registry.

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Registrant Fee Structure

• First registration
• 1,500 Baht (US 37) for 2 years
• Renewal
• 800 Baht (US 20) / year

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Domain Structure
.th
co
in
ac
or
go
mi
net
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Second Level Domain (15,959)

• .co.th(12,067) Commercial uses
• .in.th(1,423) Less restricted
• commercial/individual uses
• .ac.th(1,373) Academic organization
• .or.th(622) Non-profit organization
• .go.th(434) Governmental uses
• .mi.th(14) Military uses
• .net.th(25) ISP / sub-ISP

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Statistics

• September 04
• Total number of domains 15,959
• New registration, Sep 04 377 domains
• Average 351 / month
• Renew
• average 469 / month

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Staff

• T.H.NIC Co., Ltd. 13 staff
• Thai Name Server Co., Ltd. 6 staff

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.TH Domain Name Registration System (Old)
Pentium 4 2.4 GHz Ram 512 MB HDD 40GB2 IIS
5.0 MS Access
T.H.NIC Name Parking Service Sever
Pentium III 550 MHz Ram 320 MB HDD 9GB2 Apache
1.3.29 BIND 8.4.4
Pentium 4 Xeon 2.8 GHz Ram 1024 MB HDD 36GB2
Billing Payment Server
Web Server Name Server Backup
Web Server Name Server Backup (replacement)
TH registry
LAN
Pentium II 400 MHz Ram 256 MB HDD 10 GB
2 Ripe-dbase 2.0.4
Pentium III 800 MHz Ram 640 MB HDD 18GB BIND
8.4.4
Pentium 4 2.4 GHz. Ram 256 MB HDD 40GB80GB
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.TH Domain Name Registration System (New)
T.H.NIC Name Parking Service Sever
T.H.NIC (registrar)
Pentium III 550 MHz Ram 320 MB HDD 9GB2 Apache
1.3.29 BIND 8.4.4
Pentium 4 2.4 GHz. Ram 512 MB HDD 40GB2 Mysql
4.0.17 Apache 2.0.45
Web Server Slave Name Server Whois Server
TH registry
LAN
Pentium II 400 MHz Ram 256 MB HDD 10 GB
2 Ripe-dbase 2.0.4
Pentium 4 2.4 GHz. Ram 512 MB HDD 40GB2 Mysql
4.0.12
Pentium 4 2.4 GHz. Ram 256 MB HDD 40GB80GB
Pentium III 800 MHz Ram 640 MB HDD 18GB BIND
8.4.4
Database Server
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Old System Vs. New System

• Old System
• Registration process mostly done via E-mail
• Manual edit zone file
• No log. Who, When and Whats been modified
• New System
• Registration process via Web interface.
• Automatic update zone file from DB
• Can include human edited DNS RR into zone file.
• Activities log.

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Software

• OS FreeBSD
• 2.2.7-RELEASE
• 3.5.1-RELEASE
• 4.7-RELEASE
• 4.9-STABLE
• 5.0-RELEASE
• Windows 2000
• Name Server
• BIND 8.4.4
• Whois Server
• Ripe-dbase 2.0.4
• Ripe-dbase-3.2.0 (Testing)

• Database Server
• Mysql-max-4.0.12
• Mysql-max-4.0.17
• MS Access
• Web Server
• Apache 1.3.29
• Apache 2.0.45
• IIS 5.0
• Programming Lang.
• Perl 4
• Php 4.3.1
• C/C

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Software (continue)

• NSI Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) TCP 648
  November 1998 
• RRP version 1.1.0 RFC 2832 May 2000
• RRP version 2.0.0 RFC 3632 November 2003
• THNIC start developing Base on
  registrar-toolkit-1.1.0a (Network Solutions)
  TH-RRP September 2001
• TH-RRP MS SQL Beata December 2001
• TH-RRP Mysql 1.0.0 Beta March 2002
• TH-RRP 1.0.6 March 2003

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Future Plans

• Multi-Registrar system

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