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ccTLD Meeting @ Rome Mar 2nd, 2004 Ching Chiao, TWNIC chiao@twnic.net.tw. Content. Internet in Taiwan About TWNIC .tw Registry Service Other Projects. Taipei City. Kaohsiung City. Taiwan Profile. Land Area - 36,000 KM 2 Population - 22,45 million Household
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ccTLD Meeting @ Rome Mar 2nd, 2004 Ching Chiao, TWNIC chiao@twnic.net.tw
Content • Internet in Taiwan • About TWNIC • .tw Registry Service • Other Projects
Taipei City Kaohsiung City Taiwan Profile • 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) East China Sea Pacific Ocean
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%
Outgoing bandwidth to Foreign Countries (2004.1, source: map.twnic.net.tw)
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 Names:20,887 • Chinese.tw Restricted
What is TWNIC? • .tw Registry Service • - Org. 1996 / Est. 1999 • - ICANN contracted ccTLD manager (2003) • IP (v4/v6) Address Allocation • - Founding member of APNIC
TWNIC’s 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. Int’l Affairs & Public Relations Dept. Technical Dept. Admin. Dept.
…and there’s more • APTLD Secretariat • ISOC Taiwan Chapter ALS • Chinese Domain Name Consortium (CDNC) / JET • ccNSO Member • APNIC / ASO / PIR….
.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 - Browser’s Plug-in for Chinese Domain Name
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
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 TWNIC’s Domain Name Committee Guidelines for Administration of IP Address Registration Approved by TWNIC’s IP Committee
TWNIC Domain Name Dispute Resolution • Similar to current UDRP • Two dispute resolution service providers are
Other Projects • Chinese.tw Promotion • ASCII.tw under evaluation • “0944” ENUM Trial Project • - www.enum.org.tw • Grand IPv6 Project • - www.ipv6.org.tw