IANA Report on the Redelegation of the .BY Top-Level Domain

Recommendation: In its decision making process on accepting delegation and redelegation requests, ICANN respects the ability for a local Internet community as well as local law and local government to make decisions about the operation of a top-level domain. In its research, staff believe that there are grounds for reassignment of the domain name under the relevant criteria. It is therefore recommended that the .BY domain should be redelegated to Open Contact Ltd. as per their request.

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