Cuba domain .gov.cu not exist, but .gob.cu

[bayuah]

For disclaimer, I am not Cuban, but it seem I can't find any .gov.cu domain anywhere, even when I specifically search with "site:gov.cu" keyword.

When I try to search "Cuban president website" the top result is "https://www.presidencia.gob.cu" with .gob.cu domain. Based on latest Wikipedia edit, it seem the domain indeed it is .gob.cu.

Is there any plan to renew the list about Cuba .cu domain to reflect latest changes?

NB: My search engine is Google Search.

[dnsguru]

re-submitting directly below, as email responses do not support markdown

[bayuah]

Thank you. Probably I keep this ticket open, so it will easier to check whatever there's any related changes.

[dnsguru]

Thank you for submitting this. The entry for .cu appears quite old and was likely imported by volunteers along the way.

I have presented at various meetings to ccTLD administrators to help expand awareness of the PSL.

Following IANA listing for .cu to the nic.cu web page with sld policies, they list:

CUBANIC otorga nombres de dominio de segundo nivel bajo .cu  o de tercer nivel bajo los genéricos de .cu operados por él según se indica en la siguiente relación:

com.cu: para personas jurídicas con actividades comerciales de bienes y
servicios con fines de lucro;

edu.cu: para definir centros del sistema de Educación;

gob.cu: para órganos y organismos de la Administración Central del Estado y
otras estructuras de Gobierno;

inf.cu: para entidades relacionadas con la actividad de información
científica y proveedores de información o contenidos;

nat.cu: para personas naturales residentes en el país.

net.cu: para Proveedores Públicos de Telecomunicaciones;

org.cu: para Organizaciones no gubernamentales y sin fines de lucro;

There needs to be a Pull Request (PR) to revise the .CU listing. A bias would be to have this come from the NIC.CU to ensure that every change is deliberate and intentional, as it is they who would get support calls if a change breaks anything.

There is a preference that the PR would need to place DNS TXT entries that include the Pull Request URL.

[dnsguru]

see #1694 for a recent example of what this would need to look like with involvement from the ccTLD administration

[rubenskuhl]

I'll try forwarding an alert of this issue to CITMATEL, the registry operator for .cu, thru LACTLD. I guess they have so many issues as a sanctioned country that they might have not noticed specific applications or services not working for a subset of their domains. Which suggests .ir and .kp as possible occurrences of the same lack of feedback loop.