Garth Miller

Country:	Australia
Email:	garth.miller (at) cocca.org.nz

Garth Miller is the Director of CoCCA. CoCCA is a non-profit society with offices in New Zealand and Christmas Island (an external territory of Australia). CoCCA provides its members a variety of technical and policy tools to efficiently manage their respective ccTLDs; CoCCA's registry is the most widely deployed domain name registry system and is becoming increasingly popular with small registry operators around the world.

Miller helps to develop the knowledge and infrastructure necessary for countries to run successful ccTLDs. He does this work in conjunction with Minds + Machines, which has an exclusive deal with CoCCA resulting in the optimization of CoCCA's open-source codebase.

CoCCA and APTLD

In October 2012, Miller issued an email on CoCCA's behalf, critizing that APTLD, an association of regional ccTLD operators, backed AusRegistry because AusRegistry is one of its largest donors. His email said, "That AusRegistry, a large for-profit company that is an associate member of APTLD can simply make a phone call to a board member and get the board to make a public submission on behalf of all members that a scheduled public tender be cancelled and AusRegistry be awarded the contract – worth as much as several hundred million dollars, because they have made substantial contributions to the APLTD in the past and are likely to do so in the future if awarded the contract is, in my view, disturbing." Miller and CoCCA believed that the .au contract, which AusRegistry currently holds, should be opened up to competitive bidding. According to Domain Incite, however, Miller's view is the minority view. Under the consultation of AuDA, the policy overseer for Australia’s .au domain, numerous other registrars have supported the recommendation for AusRegistry to keep the contract.

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