Status of “.KR”

March 2, 2004

KRNIC

JiEun Park(jepark@nic.or.kr)

Task of KRNIC

Cooperation with internet-related international organizations

R&D of Internet-related subjects

Release Internet-related Statistics

Technical Support

Policy Development

management of .KR Name server & D/B

allocations & assignment of IPv4&ASN

IPv6, ENUM etc.

Registrants

KRNICKRNIC

• operate & maintain name server/DB• develop Internet resource policy• set DRP(dispute resolution policy&procedure)• set AA’s task standards

Approval/Contract

Contract

• domain name registration service• added service (ex. Parking, web hosting…)• accredited by KRNIC

AA 2AA(Authorized Agency) 1 AA 7… Competition

Flowchart

History

Jun. 29th 1999

• KRNIC was founded as a non-profit organization

• Became to register multiple domain names per 1 certificate

Jan. 4th 2002

• Launched .KR Domain Name Dispute Resolution committee

Aug. 19th 2002

• Competition system introduction for domain name registration phase(authorized agencies)

Aug. 19th 2003

• Started 한글 .kr service( 한글 stands for Korean character)

61 192 5792,6648,045

26,166

207,023

517,354

457,450

515,200

611,548

73,272

608,254

73,173

1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Feb.2004

Total no. of DN

No. of 한글 .KR

Number of Domain Names

Component of ratio of KR

<Source : Korea Network Information Center " The component ratio of KR domain" Dec. 2003>

Status of 한글 .kr

Key points• 한글 .KR has been launched since August 19th, 10:00• Registrations at second level ex) 한글 .kr• However, ASCII names are still registered at third level ex) samsung.co.kr• Sunrise period for public names, registered trade marks and

company names. • After sunrise period, we started FCFS in Nov. 4, 2003.

Number of 한글 .KR : About 73,000(Feb. 2004)

Connection ratio• For 한글 .KR, about 30% is linked to homepage• For ascii domain name, about 60% is linked to homepage

MIC(Ministry of Information and Communication)

KRNIC(Korea Network Information Center)

Entrust the national duty of Internet resources management in Korea

•Approval of

-President&Board members-KRNIC bylaws, regulations-Domain name registration fee-KR dispute application fee

Auditing every three years

Environment Change_present

Environment Change

Passed a law concerning .KR (Jan. 29, 2004)

• Ministry of Information and Communication(MIC) enacted, “Act on Internet Address Resources”

• Rationale for Proposal  & Major detailsTo establish a system to govern the registration and management of

Internet addresses including designation of an Internet Address Management Authority.

To protect the rights of duly entitled parties to the use of relevant Internet addresses by banning preemptive occupation and registration of domain names for unjustified purposes.

To establish the National Internet Agency(tentative named) as the organization in charge of efficiently executing government policies as regards Internet address resources, and sets forth its major duties.

To set up an Internet address dispute conciliation system so as to efficiently resolve disputes arising from registration/use of Internet addresses.

Change on the status of KRNIC

Environment Change_after

Before After

Name of Organization

Korea Network Information Center

(KRNIC)

National Internet Agency (NIA)

(tentatively named )

Characteristic of Organization

Non-profit organizationStatutory

organization

NIC function will be kept continuously in NIA Law is going to be enforced on August, 2004

Thank you ~

KRNIC JiEun Park(jepark@nic.or.kr)