DK Hostmaster replaced?

My good friend Francesco has been following the Danish IT authority's bid to select a new registry for the country very closely. And according to him, the current registry is about to be replaced!

The new registry is a consortium called DotDK inside of which you'll find usual registry back-end operator Afilias. It seems the incumbent registry had grown complacent and was unwilling to move with the times by offering registrars standardized services and systems such as EPP. That may be all about to change.

Why I am interested in this? Because the process is extremely close to what's going on in France at the moment, with the government about to put the .FR registry position out to tender. Just as was the case for .DK, .FR has been managed almost since its inception by the same registry, AFNIC. And just like Hostmaster DK, AFNIC has historically been slow to update its systems and unwilling to work closely with its registrars.

This has changed a lot in recent years, probably in part because AFNIC knew it had to modernize to have a hope of keeping .FR. Will it? No doubt people at the French registry will be following the events unfolding in Denmark very closely…