Despite being awarded .DK by the Danish Ministry of Science a few months ago, the Afilias/DotDK initiative will probably not run the country's top level domain after all.

Incumbent registry DK Hostmaster embarked on a determined propaganda campaign after loosing the government tender for the position it had held for so long. As a result, the Ministry told Parliament on Tuesday November 25 that DotDK would not be getting the licence to run .DK.

A lack of local Internet community support is the official reason. Not a very believable one. Expect much legal wrangling in the weeks ahead.

The licence for .DK is awarded for a 6 year period and DK Hostmaster already plans a significant number of upgrades to the way it does things if it does end up being given a second chance by its own government.

One is the adoption of the industry standard EPP protocol for registry/registrar system interfaces, which makes domain management a lot more efficient and reliable. Another is a move towards IPv6. And there's also talk of increased participation in international Internet governance bodies and organisations.


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