Domain .tp will be deleted
The number of national domain zones will soon decrease as ICANN plans to delete the .TP domain.
On February 12, the ICANN Board of Directors will make a final decision on the removal of the .TP domain delegated to the Portuguese Timor state. The meeting will document the consensus of the members of the ICANN leadership, there will not be debates on this topic.
The .TP domain has an interesting story. When John Postel and other pioneers of the domain industry delegated national domain zones, they relied on the ISO 3166 standard, the official list of abbreviations for the names of the UN states. East Timor, which was occupied by Indonesia, at that time had only one official name: Portuguese Timor. It remained from the time when this territory was a colony of Portugal.
Therefore, in 1997, a .TP domain was delegated to East Timor.
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After Indonesia and the international community recognized East Timor as an independent state, in 2002 it received the official abbreviation TL (Timor-Leste).
In 2005, ICANN delegated the .TL domain, while registration of names in the .TP zone was suspended, and most of the domains were transferred to the new zone.
Now the old domain will be permanently removed from the root zone.
It is also interesting that at the time of delegation of the .TP domain as the head of the domain zone, Xanana Gusmão, who was in prison at that time, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Gusmao was the leader of the liberation movement in East Timor, who was captured by the authorities. After the state gained independence, Gusmao became the first president of East Timor and reigned from 2002 to 2007. He now holds the post of prime minister.
On February 12, the ICANN Board of Directors will make a final decision on the removal of the .TP domain delegated to the Portuguese Timor state. The meeting will document the consensus of the members of the ICANN leadership, there will not be debates on this topic.
The .TP domain has an interesting story. When John Postel and other pioneers of the domain industry delegated national domain zones, they relied on the ISO 3166 standard, the official list of abbreviations for the names of the UN states. East Timor, which was occupied by Indonesia, at that time had only one official name: Portuguese Timor. It remained from the time when this territory was a colony of Portugal.
Therefore, in 1997, a .TP domain was delegated to East Timor.
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After Indonesia and the international community recognized East Timor as an independent state, in 2002 it received the official abbreviation TL (Timor-Leste).
In 2005, ICANN delegated the .TL domain, while registration of names in the .TP zone was suspended, and most of the domains were transferred to the new zone.
Now the old domain will be permanently removed from the root zone.
It is also interesting that at the time of delegation of the .TP domain as the head of the domain zone, Xanana Gusmão, who was in prison at that time, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Gusmao was the leader of the liberation movement in East Timor, who was captured by the authorities. After the state gained independence, Gusmao became the first president of East Timor and reigned from 2002 to 2007. He now holds the post of prime minister.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/250271/
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