mumkin's Journal: Tiny ccTLD NICs who do right by their constituants

I posed this question to AskSlashdot. Unfortunately it didn't make the main page, and as a consequence hasn't generated as much non-troll discussion as I'd have liked. Some good suggestions, however. I hadn't seen .tk before.

The long and the short of it is that I'm interested in registering a domain with a relatively obscure ccTLD, but my chief concern is that the NIC be actively working to improve things for the country's populace, not just ripping them off. Surprisingly few NICs reveal their relationship to the country whose TLD they manage, and there's not much news coverage on the subject, so evaluating the relative morality of purchasing domain space from them is difficult.

Even identifying the NIC for some countries/territories can be tricky, since the authoritative list from the IANA is woefully out of date for many records.

If you have knowledge of how a small ccTLD NIC either works for or disregards the needs of the country it (supposedly) serves, I would be very interested to read your comments here in the journal, since the original thread is now archived.