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Adding to their complexity, country code top-level domains
(ccTLDs) are governed at both the micro and the macro
level. While local ccTLD managers have, for example,
the authority to determine the requirements to register
a domain name, larger governing bodies set out to coordinate
policy among the 240 codes.
Michigan State University law professor Peter K. Yu
demystifies the history of ccTLD policymaking. He explains
that ccTLD lawmaking has transitioned from ad hoc decision-making
to institutional and self-interested wrangling. What
will emerge will be a system of international lawmaking
that will take national norms into consideration.
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