373013 - fix effective TLD list for .kr (South Korea)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 403655

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Jungshik Shin]

Currently, eTLDs for .kr contains one bogus entry while it does not have a bunch of eTLDs in the form of 'foo.kr' where 'foo' is the name of a province or metropolitan city.

The bogus entry is '한글.kr'.  The diagram at http://domain.nida.or.kr/eng/structure.jsp was misinterpreted (it's understandable because apparently that was interpreted by someone who can't read Korean).

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Yes, you're right. I can't read Korean. But I know that 한글 means 'Hangul'.

I know about the regional eTLD's like seoul.kr that need to be added. But I was under the impression that you could also register under 한글.kr.

Do I have to read this as "any Hangul word can be registered as second level, other words must be third level". That's what I understand from the current version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kr , which is different from what it was half a year ago.

Comment 2

[Jungshik Shin]

Yes, '한글.kr' was just given as an example. Any Korean words (written in Hangul) can be registered at the second level. Some examples :

http://청와대.kr     
http://정통부.kr
http://과학기술부.kr  


There's no point of putting every Hangul domains under '한글.kr' :-) It's like requiring all Chinese domain names to go under '漢字.cn'.  

And, there's even an this statement at nida.or.kr :-)

Domain names include Hangeul can be registered directly under .kr. 

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

will be fixed in bug 403655

Note : the fix was to remove 한글.kr as an eTLD