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Redelegation of the .BH domain representing Bahrain to the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
ICANN has received a request to redelegate the .BH domain, a country-code top-level domain representing Bahrain, to the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority. ICANN Staff have assessed the request, and provide this report for the ICANN Board of Directors to consider.
Factual Information
Country
The "BH" ISO 3166-1 code is designated for use to represent Bahrain.
Chronology of events
The .BH domain was first delegated in 1994 to the University of Bahrain Computer Center. In 1999, the domain was redelegated to the Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco), which remains the sponsoring organisation today.
In 2002, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority was established by Legislative Decree No. 48, and is responsible for regulating, licensing and developing the telecommunications market in Bahrain.
In 2008, the Minister of Telecommunications of Bahrain issued Resolution No. 3, which assigned TRA as the governmental agency responsible for the management of the .BH top-level domain. It resolved that “An office shall be set up ... to be affiliated to the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority. It shall undertake all the duties related to the registration of the domain names including the Kingdom of Bahrain’s domain name .BH”.
On 6 December 2011, the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority commenced a request to ICANN for redelegation of the “.BH” top-level domain.
