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With the arrival of the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), identification of an individual object is gaining significance. Internet address resources such as domain name, IP address, and OID are expected to play the role of an identifier and demand for them is also expected to increase. As for domain name, auction is carried out in certain countries whereas in others such practice is prohibited. As can be seen from these examples, policy on Internet address resources and related market type vary depending on countries. It is our intention to examine factors affecting formation of the domain market. To be more specific, this is a study on country domain (ccTLD) that signifies competitiveness of a country in cyber space. For the purpose, we have selected factors affecting the number of ccTLD with 21 countries among OECD member countries as research target from the perspective of industrial organization theory and carried out a regression analysis.

ICANN approved its Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy(UDRP) on October 24, 1999. Since December 1999 when the first decision was made under the UDRP, there have been more than 6,000 UDRP proceedings and more than 110,000 domain names have been the subject matters of the dispute. In one sense, therefore, the UDRP proceeding has been very successful in resolving domain name disputes around the world. However, there have been arguments against the fairness of the UDRP procedure. According to the analysis of statistics on UDRP decisions, around 80 percent of the respondents have lost the case. In particular, when the responds defaulted, they lost almost all of the case. It has been argued that the UDRP procedure offers some advantages to the complainant. Korea needs to pay great attention to the issues on the substantial and the procedural unfairness of UDRP since many Koreans have been parties, in particular respondents, to a UDRP procedure. Furthermore, many Koreans, almost all of Korean respondents have lost the case. Therefore, Korea needs to fix the problem. This paper offers some suggestions for Korea's strategies to fix the problem. It further suggests that Korea reflect its interest on the formation of new international rules.

통일에 대비한 남북한 인터넷 통합을 위한 준비작업으로서 통일 국가도메인 제정에 대한 논의가 계속되어 왔다. 분단상태의 남북한이 국가 도메인을 하나로 통합하여 공동으로 사용한다는 상징성이 크다는 점에서 남북한 모두가 동의할 수 있는 도메인을 제정하는 일은 중요하다. 통일 국가도메인에 대한 기존 제안들은 우리나라의 현 영문 국호인 'Korea'를 전제로 한 것들이었다. 논자는 일제 강점기 이전까지 우리 나라 영문 국호로 'Corea'가 사용되었다는 주장에 근거한 국호 영문표기 변경 논의가 남북 학술대회와 국회 결의안 등을 통해 공론화되어 많은 호응을 얻고 있음에 주목하였고, 남북한 국호의 영문표기 변경 논의와 연계하여 통일 국가도메인 제정을 추진하는 것이 시의적절하고 효율성도 높다고 판단하였다. 본 논문에서는 통일국가 도메인에 대한 기존 논의들을 검토하고 유사국가들의 국가도메인(ccTLD) 등록 사례를 통해 통일 국가도메인의 등록 가능성을 탐색한 후 통일 국가도메인명으로서 '.uc'(United Corea)를 최종 제안하였다.