Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and Top Level Domain Registries (TLD Registries) in the Institutional Structure for Cross-Border Internet Governance
Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) are among the key entities sharing in the cross-border governance of the Internet's technological infrastructure. They are directly assigned IP-address and the allocation of IP addresses, autonomous systems (ASs), and numeration resources in any particular region. RIRs closely cooperate with country code top level domain registries (ccTLD Registries) and their networking ensures a smooth cross-border functioning of the worldwide web and makes for an expansion of the domain name registration services provided on a regional scale. The articles takes a look at some aspects of the legal status and the objective and jurisdictional competence of RIRs and ccTLD Registries.