First ENOG meeting - Moscow, June 2011

1. .UA ccTLD overview
ENOG
6-8 June 2011

2. .UA Domain Facts
• December 1992 – tld .UA created in IANA
database (Igor Sviridov)
• Admin-contact: Dmitry Kohmanyuk since 1995
• Since 2001 .UA is operated by Hostmaster Ltd.
• 2001 – new policy of .UA domain adopted
• 2009 – a member of RIPE NCC
• June 2010 – half a million domain names
registered
• Oct 2010 – IDN started.
• 2011 - IPv6

3. .UA name space structure
• - 2LD public domains for geographical
regions: kiev.ua lviv.ua odessa.ua …
(total 48)
• 2LD public domains for target community:
com.ua gov.ua net.ua edu.ua org.ua
in.ua dominic.ua
• Private domains - brand.ua
• Reserved/special domains (www, ns,
whois)

4. Public domains
Community of the Dominican friarsDOMINIC.UA
Domain for individualsIN.UA
Other organizations (non-commercial)ORG.UA
Educational organizationsEDU.UA
Network service providersNET.UA
GovernmentGOV.UA
CommercialCOM.UA
For administrative districts of UkraineGeographical

5. Private domains (.UA Domain
Policy)
• “For the purpose of protection of legitimate
interests of the Ukrainian Internet-community
members with regard to their intellectual
property, private second-level domain names in
the .UA domain are delegated exclusively in
case if the spelling of the corresponding full
domain name or its second-level component
(before the “.” character but not including it)
coincides with the Trademark, with regard to
which the corresponding registrant has the rights
of use on the territory of Ukraine.”

6. Domain Name Count
(totally at 2 and 3 levels)
0
100000
200000
300000
400000
500000
600000
29.85345792010
23.94836012009
16.43901972008
38.63350732007
42.52416662006
26.71696442005
22.51339072004
20.51093152003
-906902002
Growth
(%)
CountYear

7. Private domains .UA
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000CountYear
106702010
85302009
68542008
49712007
32382006
20962005
14292004
9492003
5502002
1152001

8. .com.ua domain
• Registry-Registrar model
• 180+ registrars
• 200 000 domains registered (Nov 2010)
• 40 000 growth (in year 2010)
• 70-80% renewals rate

9. .com.ua domain
Registration rules
• First come, first served
• No limits on number of domains
• No check
• No local presence required
• Registration for 1…10 years
• Automation, RRP, email, web
• IDN allowed since Oct 2010
• Ipv6 since May 2011

10. COM.UA domains
(annual domains quantity)
0
50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
2001492010
1611222009
1383532008
948002007
621862006
424892005
311532004
220192003
161902002
222842001
countYear

11. IDN launch (Oct 2010)
• Script Cyrillic (Ukrainian, Russian, Byelorussion)
• Stages:
sunrise (trademarks only) 19 Oct …17 Nov
landrush (registration for 10 years) - 19 Nov …
19 Dec 2010
landrush (2) - 21 Dec 2010
• Results
• 6 June 2011 – more 12 000 domains

12. IDN launch (2)

13. Technical overview (DNS)
• 100% avaivability
• 8 global nodes (ipv4, ipv6)
• Own anycast cloud since 2002 (in 2010 –
ipv6)
• CommunityDNS node
• L-root node (installed in Dec 2010), two
more pending

14. Technical overview
(registration system)
• Thick registry model (all domain and
contact details are stored at central
location)
• Database systems: Postgres, Oracle
(Unix)
• High availability and reliability by load-
balanced architecture
• Daily backup

15. Technological changed to come
• EPP implementation
• IPv6 at user level
• DNSSEC
• Unification of rules and procedures in 2ld
domains

17. www.hostmaster.ua
www6.hostmaster.ua
Whois.ua
info@hostmaster.ua