clipped from: www.chinwong.com   
Since 1990, the country’s top level domain has been administered by a private individual and his company, DotPH. The operation is aimed at turning a profit, and nobody in the local Internet community has a say in how the domain is run.

The tragedy of the .PH domain is that organization that assigns country administrators, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has already stated specifically that the country administrator must act as a trustee for the domain, which is considered a public resource. “Concerns about ‘rights’ and ‘ownership’ of domains are inappropriate,” the ICANN says in one key document. “It is appropriate, however, to be concerned about ‘responsibilities’ and ‘service’ to the community.”