A few days ago, ICANN contacted the Haitian registry. Everyone who works here, has survived the severe earthquake and theaftershocks that hit the country. Understandably, the staff is in shock. Many have lost their homes and are impacted by what happened in recent days.
Regarding the infrastructure of the .ht registry, there’s good and bad news. Due to the earthquake, some of the nameservers of the .ht registry are not accessible to people outside of Haiti because of significant damage to the local telecommunications infrastructure. People are trying now to re-establish Haiti’s links to the world through the Dominican Republic.
Despite the fact that part of the infrastructure is destroyed and not working as expected, the .ht domain keeps functioning through a number of locations outside Haiti. Meanwhile, additional measures are taken to ensure that the .ht domain remains accessible even when conditions would deteriorate.
Despite all the problems that the country and its people are facing now, they are even thinking about the accessibility of the .ht domain.