APPENDIX
D13.2.1
(Abstract
from the registry operator business plan)
D13.2.1. Services to be provided. A
full description of the registry services to be provided.
Most of the internet users see and use domains
different from the perception of the internet professionals. As an example for
many of them www.domain.com
is a domain, they don't want to care about 3rd level, name serves
and other technical matters. Our aim is to make the usage of the DNS simple for
the majority of users without loosing the options for the educated ones. To
achieve this goal, the Netbay registry will offer the following set of services
and options :
1. The registry database, using Informix, a well known DB-System,
containing data about
·
Domains
·
Contacts ( holder, admin-c , tech-c )
·
Name servers
·
Accredited registrars
·
accounting
2. an email-interface for registrars, allowing them to interact
directly with the registry DB and perform all needed command with PGP / GPG
signed emails.
3. An interface with an own protocol for registrars as alternative to
the email-interface establishing an SSL connection between registrar and
registry
4. WHOIS for public allowing everybody to query for information
5. Bulk - WHOIS for special purposes with restricted policy for the
usage
6. Nameservice - the registry will operate all needed tld-nameserves
directly thus
·
Creating the zone-file from the DB
·
Distributing the zone-files to the tld-name
servers
·
Keep the TLD-name servers in synchrony
In
the first phase it is planned to run tld-name servers in North America, Asia,
Europe
7. Nameservice for 3rd and higher level domains ( example www.sld.tld
) . As explained before, many users want to have a service which includes that
technical detail. That has the additional advantage of lowering the number of
so called lame-delegations.
8. Operation of a specialized web-based-search-tool for public
Together
with the registration, registrant will be able to categorize them self by
answering predefined questions like
·
Geographic area of activities
·
Corporations, corporations branch, professionals
·
Type of financial offer or service
·
Language spoken
·
Individual statements / comments
·
Place for pictures, symbols
·
Links to other web-sides
A
web-bases search-tool in 7 languages, the 6 official UN languages
·
English
·
French
·
Russian
·
Spanish
·
Arabic
·
Chinese
·
German ( not UN official language )
will
be available to public for query.
-
The result will show the matching entries.
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A list of already taken domains will be available
9. Help desk for registrars (24/7)
10. Domain name monitoring - customer will be notified if a domain
which contains his sld is being registered
·
Within these TLD
·
Among other TLD
11. Creation and maintenance of 3rd and higher level domains
- thus allowing independent agents of big corporations to use identifiers
related to them ( example agent.corporation.fin )
12. Certificates of the registering will be send to the owner by
registered letter
13. Special protection of data (when important date is changed)
·
Notification of admin-c by email
·
Notification of admin-c by fax
·
Request for confirmation
14. Clearing for disputes between
·
Registrars an registrars
·
Registrants and registrars
APPENDIX
D13.2.3
(Abstract
from the registry operator business plan)
D13.2.3. Market.
Market definition, size, demand, accessibility.
There is a need for a new definition. This definition
must be large enough to take into account the new convergence of the financial
industry especially the many overlapping areas of insurance and banking. This
definition must be strict enough to clearly distinguish the financial community
from the commercial world.
Our new definition of the registrant market will allow
new financial intermediaries to be recognized as members of the .finance community
The new definition of the finance communities will
encompass the old definition and will offer new intermediaries such as price
comparators, new financial products and sites that deals with exclusively the
financial issues, e-brokers, insurance…
Potential registrars are the already ICANN certified
registrars (operational or about to be operational) and will be enlarged by the
arrival of many country code registrars (members of CORE). According to the TLD
policies only certain registrars presenting sufficient credential will be
accredited to be .fin registrars. They will have to comply with a set of
procedures that will be annually audited by the sponsoring organization.
Financial institutions worldwide are evaluated at least 1
million. Financial community may be split into 5 main activities: banking,
securities and brokers, insurance, combined real estate in the private sector
and regulation in public sector.
They are currently 128 ICANN registrars all over the
world, with the appearance of new TLD and the filing of currently operating
country code registrars and of the biggest affiliates, we can estimate the
market size to be 250 by the end of 2003.
Financial sites include online banking, mortgage,
insurance and investment sites.
Internet-based financial retailing has been slow to catch on
for many reasons, but now they are expected to develop faster. Online banking
users in the world are estimated to 50 million persons and financial services
users close to 30 million. Both markets should grow by more than 100% in the
next five year.
The size of the market of financial institutions is 1
million by now and will be around 1.25 million by 2004.
A very cautious benchmark for the size of the market of
third level names is 1.4 times the size of market of financial institutions,
that is 1.4 million by now and 1.7 million by 2004.
The growth of the online financial market will lead
traditional financial institution to develop online services.
.fin will ease the research and the knowledge of
financial services on the web.
A new restricted TLD such as .finance will probably
not compete with .com market.
According to our survey, registrars are likely to join
any new program for new TLD delivery. The more interesting population will be
the .com, .net, .org registrars.
The ability of currently certified ICANN registrants
to handle change of ownership upon domain name with manual checking enable them
to do the manual checking requested by .fin registration. The simplicity of the
registration rule will not impact their current way of doing business. We can
expect a large adhesion to .fin registration process.
APPENDIX
D15.2.7
(Abstract
from the registry operator business plan)
D15.2.7. Data escrow and backup. Frequency and procedures
for backup of data. Describe hardware and systems used, data format, identity
of escrow agents, procedures for retrieval of data/rebuild of database, etc.
It should be noted that the system will use
RAID-Storage with full redundancy. Additionally there will be:
·
daily backup on 2 tapes (one copy at the location
of the production environment, 2nd at the programming side)
·
weekly backup on CD, to be used as escrow at an
appropriate deposit
Recovery-procedure will be tested at random.