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“Hosting settings benefit from periodic attention.”
“Difficult notifications can reach beyond support as a sandbox.”
“Knowledge of IT standards can be transferred with training material.”
“Web IDs are in preparation. ‘Peter Jansen’ cannot be an identification.”

Regarding domain and hosting control

Dutch Hall of Fame: en.internet.nl/halloffame/
Free Web Domain Lookup: rdap.hostingtool.nl/
Free Server Header Details and Warnings: www.hostingtool.nl/
Free Domain Control Register ®, from 2024-11-30: www.domaincontrolregister.org/

Actions, I think, that the Netherlands must decide on

  • Establish a Governing Board.
    – This board consists of a group of individuals responsible for overseeing the activities, policies, and general direction of an organization.

Ministry of General Affairs:

  • Govern IT under a Cabinet Office. And dismiss unnecessary advisory bodies.
    – UK’s Cabinet Office falls under the Ministry of General Affairs. If realized in NL: “Kabinetsbureau”.
    – UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) operates hierarchically under the Cabinet Office;
  • Generate training material for further education from the European Cloud, which is in preparation.
    – The AWS GovCloud in the United States, is managed by Amazon.
    – Organizations using GovCloud must verify that all individuals with access to the environment are U.S. citizens.
    – GovCloud cannot be used by foreign nationals or organizations, even if they have legitimate access to other AWS services;
  • Work on a Dutch or EU Digital Service for generic application software related to DNS and registries.
    – Well-considered proposals, RFC and non-RFC, could feed the IANA organization.

Ministry of Economic Affairs:

  • Include automated task costs in just one annual web domain fee;
  • Include a change in a registrar’s own data in its period costs;
  • Eliminate all registry discounts. A volume discount causes unfair competition.

Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Justice:

  • List areas of expertise, engage specialists, ensure dynamic interaction and make decisions;
  • Make the country of the real domain user leading for country-specific Web Domain Services (WDSs).
    – For the NL, the “Stichting Inlichtingenbureau” in Utrecht could assist for a new “Webdomeindienst”;
    – Register data officers with WDS as confirmed by his/her director in that country;
  • Maintain IT knowledge with a long-standing EU group of stakeholders;

NL / EU / US and including generic top-level domain zones:

  • Discuss global design and programming of Registration Data Access Protocol software.
    – Introduce in RDAP an emergency entity in order to formally organize backup to get access;
  • Generate web IDs that start with the ISO2 country code, for business entities and natural persons;
  • Plan verification of web domain users indexed by web ID, starting with modeling in RDAP like mine;
  • Use the developed Domain Control Register ®, based on the real web domain user.
    – Report regarding expired HTTPS, security.txt or DANE via email. Perhaps a DCR revenue model;
  • Get custom fields approved and listed for standardization in the dynamic RDAP protocol.
    – A simple data structure has been designed for the registry details;