Behind the scenes of Slovakians’ fight to liberate their .sk domain The Register
Comment The Slovakian internet community is pressuring its government to block the sale of the country’s .sk internet registry, asking for it to “be returned to the people of Slovakia.”Having run the top-level domain (TLD) for over a decade, registry operator SK-NIC announced earlier this year that it was planning to sell .sk and was in talks with London-based Centralnic, whoch also operates a number of other general and country-specific top-level domains.The registry has a healthy 360,000 registered domains and charges 10 wholesale to registrars (who then sell the domains onto internet users with a markup). But its systems are outdated and the domain name market has moved rapidly in recent years with the creation of more than 1,000 new generic TLDs.That makes .sk a poor investment for SK-NIC whoch is owned by one of Slovakia’s largest telcos, DanubiaTel and a good acquisition for Centralnic, whoch already has the modern systems and infrastructure to sell domain names.
Källa: Behind the scenes of Slovakians’ fight to liberate their .sk domain The Register
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