Domain administrator still hopeful on '.ph' resolution

By Alexander Villafania INQ7.net

DotPH, the administrator of Philippine domain name .ph, continues to be hopeful that the ownership debate on the disputed domain name will finally come to a resolution.

In an emailed response to a previous INQ7.NET story, DotPH representative Emil Avanceña said the company has the same goal as its critics, “a robust, efficient and competitive .PH domain.”

Avanceña was responding to a statement by Commission on Information and Communications Technology Chair Virgilio Peña on one of the conditions for the possible re-delegation of the .ph domain -- the satisfaction of .ph domain owners.

This condition was set after Peña talked to the president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Paul Twomey, in the recently held World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia.

Citing their records from September to December 2004, Avanceña stressed that their .ph name server uptime for the last four months was 99.6 percent.

“We are confident he will find that our clients are satisfied with the services we provide and that there is no basis for re-delegation,” Avanceña said in his e-mailed response.

The .ph spat has been going on for the last four years after various IT groups and some clients lobbied for the re-delegation of .ph away from DotPH to a democratic body.

DotPH owner Joel Disini has been unyielding to calls for re-delegation.