So eager was ICANN to celebrate a strengthened relationship with three new country code domain managers that it got one of the countries wrong in its official statement!
The following was published on the ICANN website on June 19: "ICANN has today announced that it has signed an exchange letters with the county code top level domain (ccTLD) manager for .LT--Lativa, the Institute of Mathematics and Computor Science, University of Latvia. It has also formalized its relationship with the ccTLD managers for .CX--Christmas Island, the Christmas Island Internet Administration Ltd and .NF--Norfolk Island, the Norfolk Island Data Service by way of accountability framework documents."
ICANN's accountability framework program aims to help it formalise relationships with countries all over the world. In these difficult post WSIS and .XXX debacle times, ICANN needs an international image boost and receiving pledges of allegiance from ccTLDs around the world obviously helps.
Except when ICANN trips over its own feet and shows itself to have more than limited knowledge of the countries it is trying to woo.
Far from being the ISO country code for Latvia (and not "Lativa" as misspelled in ICANN official text), LT is actually the code for Lithuania. LITNEC, the Lithuanian registry, immediately responded to ICANN's mistake by posting the following message on CENTR's (an association of Internet Country Code Top-Level Domain Registries) mailing list:
".LT haven't signed any letter or agreement with ICANN. It is Latvian ccTLD. and in the subject must be .LV instead .LT Seems I must inform ICANN writers not to mix people around :-)"
At least ICANN got the country right, even though the domain was wrong! A slightly worrying mistake from the Domain Name System regulator… ICANN instantly apologised for it and has promised to update its website asap.
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