Here's my take on "com.ro". To put it in
perspective, I'm going to
compare and contrast with "asso.fr", which
recently came up, as well
as "uk.com", which is a classic counterexample.
1.) Presence of the gSLD (generic Second Level Domain) in
WHOIS
Both "asso.fr" and "com.ro" have
presence in the WHOIS database,
indicating that they are "container objects" for
lack of a better
word. Ostensibly, from looking at their description, they
are there
simply so that nobody else registers "asso.fr" or
"com.ro". This,
from a technical standpoint about how their systems probably
work,
makes a lot of sense.
"uk.com", on the other hand, does not appear
different in any way
from any other WHOIS entry, for instance, MICROSOFT.COM.
2.) Presence of tertiary-LDs in WHOIS
When a gSLD is legitimately delegating its tertiary-LDs,
you would
expect to see the tertiary-LDs *also* in WHOIS, such as
"anrt.asso.fr". In the case of
".com.ro", similarly, domains
registered below it also seem to appear in WHOIS.
Contrarily, tertiary-LDs under UK.COM do not appear in the
WHOIS
database, nor does the .COM WHOIS server point a request for
EXAMPLE.UK.COM down to an appropriate secondary-level WHOIS
server.
I would propose then, the following change to the
policy-abuse
document to delineate this difference:
Adding the following sentence to the paragraph that mentions
"...
WHOIS registry is the level ..."
"An exception to this rule would be WHOIS entries
which exist
clearly as placeholder or container objects in the WHOIS
database for
generic SLDs, where the registry in question either handles
any
request it receives for a tertiary-level domain, or refers
such
requests to an appropriate WHOIS server for
resolution."
I think that this verbiage clarifies and codifies the
understanding
that seems to exist around gSLDs which have WHOIS entries,
but also
does *not* give folks who operate a la UK.COM, where they
simply
cannibalize a single (regular) domain name registration, a
workaround.
Comments?
Cheers,
D
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