The International Relations Unit handles relations for the Registry with international organizations in order to compare experiences with other ccTLDs and develop best practices.

International relations of the Registry are a reference which is needed above all for Registrars. The Registry also participates actively in the meetings of the most important international organizations to ensure that the organization is authoritative and to foster international standards.

The main organizations that the Registry regularly takes part in are: - ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) - RIPE (Réseaux IP Européennes) - CENTR (Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries).

Depending on their specific expertise, engineers and managers involved in this Registry Unit take part in the various working groups associated with meetings that are held all over the world. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is responsible for the operational management of the DNS. The ccNSO (country code Names Supporting Organization) of ICANN and CENTR (Council for European National TLD Registries) are responsible for issuing "best practices" that deal with, in a non-authoritative way, the better functioning of country code registries, such as dot com. The GAC (Governmental Advisory Committee) operates within ICANN. GAC oversees relationships between the registries, the respective governments, and ICANN. It "recommends" specific "behaviors" and management practices.

Some of the topics discussed in technical meetings cover, for example, the organization of the DNS. The DNS has been stable for some time, but is having to deal with the ever increasing use of the Internet and therefore is subject to updates, adjustments to the IPv6 standard, updates on best practices for data processing and the management of whois, marketing and communications, etc.

The "governance" of the Internet is operated by the United Nations through the World Summit on the Information Society and the Internet Governance Forum. In addition, a specific interest in aspects of interdisciplinary research has been promoted through the "Global Internet Governance Academic Network," and a specific section of the European Commission program named "The Internet of the Future".

The International Relations Unit is the natural framework in which all international activities are planned, implemented and supported that have a direct or indirect relationship with the Registry, in particular, the structure of the Domain Name System.

The Unit is also responsible for social aspects and issues regarding the more general issue of "governance" of the Internet and the '"Internet Governance" (what is meant by Internet governance? what aspects of the Internet world require some form of management that entails a global partnership?).

Another fundamental aspect of International Relations Unit is to define the international management of the Internet through the involvement of all stakeholders: users, service providers (i.e. the private sector) and governments. This is a multi-stakeholder approach as defined by the United Nations and is in accordance with Internet management being bottom up rather than top down. This study therefore covers not only technological aspects but also financial, social and legal.