Dear Emmanuel, Happy to Gear from you. Unfortunatelly, i'm not sure that you will get more help on these issues here. Since WE here in NPOC belongs to GNSO. The issues you mentionned are well known by me. Thé ccNSO is more indicated to help. We can talk about Inbox, if you want, please. Warm regards Olévié Le mar. 24 nov. 2020 à 23:42, Emmanuel Vitus <emmanuelvitus@gmail.com> a écrit :

Dear listers,

I hope you are staying safe and healthy through these unusual times! I have a few questions that I was hoping you might be able to help me with.

There is currently a conversation going on within the Togolese ecosystem regarding the attribution of the Country code top-level domain (. TG). According to article 4 of the national charter in Togo, the domain names ending with the extension. TG can only be assigned if the domain name does not correspond to the naming zones retained by the charter (see list at the end of the email).

For example, as a natural person, I cannot have a domain name with my name (Emmanuel Vitus) directly like *emmanuelvitus.tg <http://emmanuelvitus.tg>*. The charter indicates that such name must be assigned with the following extension: *emmanuelvitus.nom.tg <http://emmanuelvitus.nom.tg> **(.nom which means name in french must be included in the domain name to indicate that I am an individual)* and for natural persons, the documents requested are a national ID and a family council report (which means the family must agree and give you an authorization note before you get the domain name). Otherwise, you will not have the domain name.

Before I address the issue in the local community, I would like to hear from you as experts and as a users.

1- Do you find that this practice encouraging enough the popularization of the ccTLD (.TG)?

2- What are the best practices and examples in your country/region regarding this?

Below are the naming zones selected for the “. tg ”

1. admin.tg for public administrations; 2. asso.tg for associations; 3. edu.tg for the education sector; 4. gouv.tg for government structures; 5. nom.tg for individuals; 6. org.tg for international organizations and NGOs; 7. tm.tg for trademarks; 8. com.tg for entities carrying out an activity of an industrial or commercial nature, or any other income-generating activity; 9. mairie.tg for municipalities (eg: lome.mairie.tg); 10. prefecture.tg for the prefectures (ex: yoto.prefecture.tg); 11. ville.tg for cities (ex: kara.ville.tg); 12. canton.tg for the county towns (eg: amoutive.canton.tg); 13. Info.tg for activities relating to the publication of information; 14. Net.tg for network and internet service providers; 15. village.tg for villages (eg: edzi.village.tg).

Only domain names for which the applicant does not correspond to any of the categories linked to descriptive extensions above, can be created under the extension “. tg ”. The creation of such domain names is expressly authorized by the administrative manager.

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

Emmanuel

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