: Can Domain Registrars restrict changes to nameservers? A client of mine registered a .com.tw domain from a registrar in his country and he said that due to the restrictions of the telecommunication

@Miguel251

I emailed ICANN and this was their reply:


Dear Joseph,

Thank you for contacting ICANN Global Support Centers and we apologies
for the inconvenience your client is experiencing.

For the domain names within two-letter country-code top-level domains
(ccTLDs) such as .tw are administered by country-code managers.
Registry operators are appointed within the country, under local laws,
in conjunction with the local Internet community and local government.
ICANN has no power to be involved in how these operations are
conducted.

For help with these domains, you will need to contact the country-code
manager for .tw. You can find the manager for a ccTLD by searching the
IANA ccTLD database: www.iana.org/domains/root/db.
For your convenience I am including the link for .tw as follows
www.iana.org/domains/root/db/tw.html
We hope this is of assistance to you. We will now resolve this case.
Should you have any questions or clarifications please do not hesitate
to contact us.

Regards,

Tammy Yeow

Lead Global Support Analyst

ICANN Global Support Team


So it looks like there is no global regulation and is at least POSSIBLE for administrators of those two-letter country-code top-level domains to do anything they want.

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@Ann8826881

It seems a bit strange that the "registrar" would impose this restriction, unless there is some local government restriction (as you seem to imply)? Although I'm not sure why that would be?

ns1.twnic.net.tw would seem to be the NAMESERVER of the register (TWNIC), not the registrar (for which there only appears to be 13 officially listed). As far as I know, TWNIC (the register) does not impose such a restriction.

In fact, TWNIC gives specific instructions for updating the nameservers on their site (See Domain FAQs under "Q25: How to set up the DNS for the English Domain Name?"). But this is only for when the domain is registered directly with TWNIC - which does not seem to be possible these days:


Since March 1, 2001, TWNIC has stopped allow itself to sign up new domain names directly, instead allowing new registration through its contracted reseller registrars.


Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tw

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