ICANN squashes Internet rumours about North Korean domain
Internet regulator puts record straight on .KP – North Korea's Internet suffix – approval process.
ICANN has published an official rebuttal of stories circulating the Net about soon-to-be-approved .KP, after some domain bloggers suggested that an official green light was about to be given to North Korea's domain.
In its release, ICANN points out that the sole guideline for Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) has always been the ISO 3166-1 standard. ".KP has long been established by ISO as North Korea's two-letter code in that standard," says ICANN. No approval process is therefore necessary as North Korea already has its domain.
However, there is one recent development showing that the so far unused North Korean namespace might soon be activated. "At the present time there is no delegated operator for the .KP domain, but ICANN has received a request to delegate the domain. This request was discussed by the ICANN Board at its meeting on 14 August 2007 (…)No decision was made on the delegation during this meeting."
This may be discussed again at ICANN's next board meeting in Los Angeles, although the agenda for that meeting has yet to be determined.
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