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Well said.
However, if it were allowed to remain, it should be established as a generic Top-Level Domain in which open, competitive bidding for its management be installed. I'm no legal expert by any stretch of the imagination, but it would seem to me if Niue is dissolved, then the country no longer exists and the contract between its former government and the administrator is null and void. In effect, .nu would no longer be a ccTLD.
I'm not saying it should necessarily be removed, even if it were granted a temporary reprieve. However, it should not continue to have ccTLD status with the luxury of perpetuity. Establish it as a special sponsored gTLD (since it only has two letters and may conflict with a future ccTLD with the same characters), with a provision in the contract with whoever comes out as the winning party in the bidding process that clearly states the TLD may be deleted from the root in the event the ISO recycles that TLD and needs it for a new country down the road. Of course, even then, a suitable transition period should be established.
Cheers,
Doug
Doug Mehus
http://doug.mehus.info/ [mehus.info]
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Re:why should domain owners go away?
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ccTLDs which has been orphaned by the country they were owned by should be deleted within a handful of years.
That's just the risk you take when you register a banana republic ccTLD domain name.
Furthermore: There should be a limit of the percentage of registrations under a ccTLD which originates outside that territory. Say max 10% of .nu registrations should be allowed to be made by and for entitities outside that territory. .nu asked for a ccTLD and used it as a gTLD. They had more registrations than citizens of their country. As I see it, that's misuse of a ccTLD.
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