ccTLD Presentation for KI

by
Mr Bwanouia Aberaam
Manager Engineering

PRESENTATION FORMAT

BRIEF BACKGROUND
CURRENT REGISTRATION POLICIES
DOMAIN STRUCTURE
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN USE
STAFFING AND RELEVANT
REGULATORY BODIES
FEE STRUCTURE / FUNDING MODEL
FUTURE PLANS

BACKGROUND
In 2003, Telecom Services Kiribati Ltd (TSKL),
fully owned government company was given the
mandate by the government to run the ccTLD
service and be the manager
In February 2005 the Telecommunications Acts was
amended, a regulatory body is formed called
Telecommunications Authority of Kiribati (TAK). It
was given the mandate by law to manage the state
resources, one of which is the country code TLD
(KI).
Starting from 1 July 2005, TAK was started
managing TLD under the current legislation and be
the current manager for ccTLD (KI)

CURRENT REGISTRATION
POLICIES
Our current policies are in line with the
ICANN on Uniform Domain Name Dispute
Resolution Policy.
Starting from July 1st, we will shift to adopt
the Council of Country Code Administrators
(CoCCA). This is due to migration from the
current system to their system.

DOMAIN STRUCTURE
Currently, we sell domain names at the top
and second levels.
For TLD - .ki
For Second Level biz.ki; com.ki; edu.ki;
info.ki; net.ki; org.ki, and gov.ki
When we adopt the new system additional
second level would be included like
mobile.ki,

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN

USE
Current System
Hardware: Servers Proliant HP, cisco
routers
Software: Operating system is - Mandriva
LINUX : Registry software is a non
Shared Registry Software

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN

USE
New System (Software)
CoCCA software an EPP compatible shared
registry system written and maintained by CoCCA
members. Source code is free for CoCCA
members
Has two modules an EPP shared registry and a
basic registrar system
Uses the postqres database (
http://www.postqresql.org)

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN

USE
Uses the Resin Java Application Server (
http://www.caucho.com)
TLD name servers used BIND and run on
FreeBSD
The Registrar module uses the database driven
powerDNS system (http://www.powerdns.com)
and no zone generation required
Centos Test environment and FreeBSD for
nameservers

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN

USE

New System
Run it on Apple G5X serve rack mount
servers.
Run OTE (test environment) on Intel boxes
running on Centos
Run nameservers on intel boxes with
FreeBSD
Network Operation Centre (NOC) 10mb
link & 1.5 racks at a tier- 1 carrier with biometric 24/7 access racks in Sydney AU

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN

USE
rack with a TLD DNS server and a mirror
of the software (disaster recovery) in Seattle
Washington.
Use cisco routers and sonicwall firewalls
Each member encouraged to maintain a
local mirror server Intel box for data escrow
and disaster recovery

STAFFING AND RELEVANT

REGULATORY BODIES
Staffing: Currently, only 1 staff looks after
the daily management of the ccTLD
Manager Engineering. For maintenance it is
the responsibility of the host TSKL
New System For maintenance it is the
responsibility of the ccTLD Manager and
CoCCA members who maintained the
servers at the NOC in Sydney

STAFFING AND RELEVANT

REGULATORY BODIES
RELEVANT REGULATORY BODIES
Currently, Telecommunications Authority of
Kiribati (TAK) which the regulator for the
Telecommunications Sector in Kiribati, which is
also the manager of the ccTLD for Kiribati is the
only regulatory body under the current legislation

FEE STRUCTURE / FUNDING

MODEL
Currently TLD .ki annual and renewal fee is
AUD1000
Second Level Domains AUD150 annual and
renewal fee.
All proceeds from TLD and Second Level
Domains go to the Telecom Development Fund.
This fund is solely for the development of the
Telecommunications infrastructure in Kiribati.

FUTURE PLANS
To completely cut over from the current
operator which is TSKL by the end of June
and start with new system 1 July 2006
To make policies that are in line with the
law of Kiribati, the uniform domain name
dispute resolution of ICANN and current
best practices by other ccTLD operators

FUTURE PLANS
To review the annual fee and renewal fee to attract
more customers
Will allow other accredited registrars to sell
domain names for ki
Recruit more staff if the need arise in relation to
the service.
To continue abreast our staff with the development
in the operation of the service by sending them to
workshops or trainings like this one.