957706 - Update PSL for Netherlands Antilles

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: Domain Lists, defect)

Description

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Dear Miss/Sir,

Good Day! 

As you probably know CURACAO, SAINT MAARTEN, BONAIRE, SABA and SAINT EUSTATIUS used to be part of the NETHERLANDS ANTILLES and since October 10, 2010  the NETHERLANDS ANTILLES were dissolved and new countries were born (reference links: http://www.iana.org/reports/2011/cw-report-20111003.html and http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/cw.html).

However the last 2 years we are confronted with the fact that our new countries are not appearing on the country lists on several (business) websites, and on the other hand the NETHERLANDS ANTILLES is been removed without having been replaced by CURACAO, SAINT MAARTEN and BES islands.

This causes several registration issues when making use of e-Commerce sites, but is also making e-Business in general more difficult and as you can understand this has its effects on the economics of the new countries.

As the manager of the .AN Registry responsible for .AN being phased out accordingly and on the other hand also the manager of the .CW Registry for CURACAO (and concerned also for the .SX Registry and future .BQ Registry), I am requesting your help on getting these updates made in the country list databases in your lists as well so it can help propagate these ccTLDs all over the WWW a.s.a.p.

Other reference links:

http://www.iana.org/reports/2011/cw-report-20111003.html

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cura%C3%A7ao-on-the-Web/399502033481259?ref=hl

http://www.btnp.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=156:notice-on-new-iso-country-code-cw-for-curacao-former-island-territory-of-the-netherlands-antilles&catid=92:latest-news&Itemid=435&lang=en

Best regards,
Leendert J.J. Pengel
CW_smallerRegistry Curacao
University of Curacao

E-mail: [e-mail]
URL: www.uoc.cw/CW_Registry

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

We should leave .an, but add:

.cw 
.sx

There are currently no sites in .bq and it's not in the root zone.

Gerv

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

.cw and .sx are already present. It would have been nice if he'd checked before emailing us...

Gerv