Hi:
All domains were indeed mirrored to the new domain (which went through various updates and wiped much of the data on several occasions).
There were some users who wanted to use the .tp but not the .tl domain so imposing some - but not defined period of transition before removal. Other factors were for example, only about 2 years ago the main telco in Timor Leste moved over to .tl after many many reminders and indeed technical support from us.
For us .tp had done its job and our offer of a development plan - which had for me some interesting ways of raising income was not taken up, even though it had been supported by the then governments external advisor.
We pursued and completed this action some months after having received a request. We also put in information on a number of sub domains (com.tp, net.tp and org.tp) which we had in place. Unfortunately, tyo my mind, that information managed to disappear leaving the people of East Timor now Timor Leste with less funding opportunities from domain registration activities.
I will comment again with more details on what our plan for this actually was.
One thing that has to be remembered is that the domain (.tp) was not set up as a "normal" registry as it was controlled by an external military force which appeared to operate without any or at best very few humanitarian controls and so our motivation for setting up a "virtual" country.
M.Maguire
Biting the hand that feeds IT
