What We’re About

“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.”
“The Netherlands could set up an expert group with a global overview.”

Web Domain and Hosting Control

The Dutch en.internet.nl/ is about to-do matters.
1. Free Domain RDAP Lookup, including Domain Whois; PHP/Python/JSON; from August 15, 2021: rdap.hostingtool.nl/modeling_domain/
2. Free Server Header Lookup; PHP/XML; from January 14, 2022: www.hostingtool.nl/server_headers/
3. Free Domain Control Register ®; PHP/JSON; from November 30, 2024: www.domaincontrolregister.org/
4. Free Homepage Route Overview; PHP/Python; from February 26, 2025: www.workingornot.org/
5. Free Security Header Overview, PHP/Python; from March 18, 2025: securityheaders.hostingtool.org/
6. Free Hosting Lookup; PHP/Python/JSON; from May 6, 2025: lookup.hostingtool.org/
7. Registry Table Definition for PostgreSQL, May 31, 2025. Prepared for implementation on global RDAP servers and migration to the next RDAP version.
8. External SIDN whistleblowing and also contacting the Netherlands Standardisation Forum: points to improve the .nl ccTLD root zone
Note: SIDN can achieve sufficient control with the gTLD requirements for .amsterdam and .politie.

Actions that I think the Netherlands should 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.
    – Appointing a Minister of Digital Affairs may hinder technical and functional oversight;
    – The Netherlands could have a Digital Affairs Team as a think tank: “Team Digitale Zaken“.

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 are 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;