01 · AUTHORITY
Names & governance
The .ht delegation, registry rules, accredited providers, and the public responsibilities attached to them.
A living record of Haiti
Keep the record.
Keep it findable.
Presses Nationales HT is an independent initiative to preserve Haiti’s public digital record and make its sources easier to find and verify. This edition maps the decision-making bodies and a vetted watchlist of official, independent, and official-looking Haitian online sources.
DOCUMENT / MEMORY / ACCESSHT · 01
Independent project
This initiative is not an official government publication and does not confer legal authority on archived copies.
01 / The purpose
A country’s digital identity is a network.
It lives in the names that route people to Haitian institutions, the records those institutions publish, the services that keep sites reachable, and the media and communities that carry information forward. Preservation starts by documenting how those pieces connect.
02 · RECORDS
Public documents
Laws, notices, decrees, government publications, and the metadata needed to verify each copy.
03 · CONNECTION
Digital infrastructure
DNS, registrars, hosting, connectivity, power, and the dependencies that make public access possible.
04 · COMMUNITY
Media & memory
Radio, journalism, diaspora archives, and community knowledge—with clear sourcing and permission.
02 / The network
Trace the links.
Keep the confidence visible.
This first map separates what reviewed documents support from leads carried over in the research conversation. An unverified connection is a research question, not a conclusion.
EVIDENCE STATES USED IN THIS MAP
Documented in reviewed sourcesResearch lead from project notesProject role to establish
CONTINUITY MAP / WORKING DRAFTNOT A LIVE STATUS MONITOR
Public authorityPolicy / designation
.ht registryConsortium FDS/RDDH
Service providersRegistrar network
Public recordsLe Moniteur / acts
Media & radioDistribution / discovery
Preservation layerProposed project role
Documented.HT GOVERNANCE
A delegated namespace with a paper trail
IANA’s 2004 report records the government’s support for the FDS/RDDH Consortium’s .ht delegation. IANA’s record, last updated in March 2025, names the Consortium as manager and lists registration, WHOIS, and RDAP endpoints.
DocumentedREGISTRATION RULES
Registry rules define responsibilities
The reviewed naming charter routes domain actions through accredited providers, reserves .gouv.ht for Haitian government entities, and sets renewal, transfer, and dispute procedures.
Research leadRECORDS & PUBLISHING
Locate the official record, then preserve copies
Le Moniteur and Presses Nationales are central to the project’s record-preservation questions. The present status and authorized repositories for recent issues must be checked against primary sources before publication.
Research leadDISTRIBUTION
Radio, media, connectivity, commerce
The chat history points to Haitian radio, news outlets, telecoms, financial services, and maritime commerce as connected layers. This site will map each relationship only when a reliable source supports it.
A DNS error shows that a hostname did not resolve at that time; on its own, it does not establish that an institution has ceased to exist. A WHOIS registrant is not, by itself, proof of editorial ownership or operational control.
04 / Haitian digital presence register · edition 01
Find the source behind the claim.
A first vetted watchlist of government, public-institution, registry, archive, media, and official-looking web properties surfaced in the project history and source review. A Haitian name or government-style design is not proof of official status.
Showing all register entries
Government information portal
communication.gouv.htGovernment communications hub with Primature statements, ministry notices, and public information. Recent March–April 2026 posts name the Prime Minister and Presses Nationales director.
Provisional Electoral Council
cephaiti.htRecent dated releases include the bureau installed 24 September, electoral-process updates, and the published calendar. For a claimed official notice, check the CEP page and its date.
Central bank
brh.htThe BRH identifies itself as a public, financially autonomous institution and publishes monetary, foreign-exchange, and financial-system information. Its page carried an update dated 2 October 2026.
Justice and Public Security Ministry
mjsp.gouv.htPublishes the Ministry’s stated legal, justice, policing, and public-service roles. A ministry site is not the same as a court judgment or police operational record.
Judicial Council
cspj.htThe site identifies itself as CSPJ and publishes a contact address at cspj.gouv.ht. It is institution-specific, but its homepage alone is not proof that the entire justice system is operating normally.
Superior Court of Accounts
cscca.gouv.htGovernment-domain site for public-account and administrative-court oversight. Cross-check a posted document against its dated record and originating institution.
Public Procurement Commission
cnmp.gouv.htActive portal for procurement notices, contracts, plans, audits, and rules. It published new material during September 2026.
Anti-Corruption Unit
ulcc.gouv.htGovernment-domain presence for Haiti’s ULCC. Treat its reports as institutional statements; a finding of criminal guilt requires a judicial record.
.ht registry and delegation
nic.ht · IANA lists Consortium FDS/RDDHThe country-code registry’s delegation is documented by IANA. The .ht operator administers the namespace; that role does not make it the government or the owner of each registered site.
Presses Nationales & Le Moniteur
pressesnationalesdhaiti.ht · cited on published issuesThe government communications site reported a March 2026 meeting at Presses Nationales and named its director. The institution’s domain is printed on government-hosted issues, but it did not return an A record in this check. A July 2026 scan is indexed by an independent legal archive, not the government host. Those facts do not support calling the institution or publication “dead.”
Government report, 28 March 2026 ↗ · Independent July 2026 issue record ↗
Government-hosted Le Moniteur copy
budget.gouv.ht · PDF repositoryA 21 April 2025 Le Moniteur issue is hosted in Haitian government file storage and carries the Presses Nationales imprint and cited web domain. Preserve the issue number, publication date, original imprint, and file URL with each record.
Public services ministry directory
servicespublics.gouv.htUseful for discovering ministry names and services. Older copyright and directory data mean every listing should be checked against the ministry’s own current channel.
“Portail Unifié du Gouvernement Haïtien”
govofhaiti.orgThe page claims a joint initiative coordinated by the Primature and lists a gouv.ht email. In this review I found no corroborating link from the verified government portal or directory. A .org address is not proof of fraud; do not use it for identity documents or payments until affiliation is confirmed.
Older Presses / Moniteur addresses
pressesnationales.ht · lemoniteur.htThese older addresses did not return an A record in this review. That is a host-resolution result for those names only; it does not establish whether the institution, its current domain, or paper/digital publications exist.
HaitiDocs legal-text index
haitidocs.orgA searchable third-party legal-document resource. Use it to discover a record, then compare the text, issue number, and date with a government-hosted Le Moniteur copy.
FlashHaiti directory listing
flashhaiti.comA business-directory page about Presses Nationales, not the institution’s own site and not evidence of government authorization.
Radio.ht
radio.htA station-discovery directory mentioned in the chat history. A station listing does not prove a stream is live, that a radio station speaks for the state, or that a report is verified.
Gazette Haiti
gazettehaiti.comA news outlet, not a government publication. The history’s WHOIS-based claim about its “owner” was stronger than the evidence supports: domain-registration contacts do not establish editorial ownership or day-to-day operation.
Access Haiti
accesshaiti.comAppears among service-provider leads in the reviewed .ht materials. A provider or WHOIS contact does not, by itself, prove that Access Haiti hosts or controls BRH’s systems.
No entries match that search. Try a shorter name or choose another status.
Corrections from the Copilot history
“Le Moniteur is digitally dead” was unsupported. Presses Nationales appeared in official government reporting in March 2026; a government-hosted 2025 issue and an independently indexed July 2026 scan are also discoverable. Broken old URLs show a domain problem, not institutional disappearance.
“BRH outsourced digital sovereignty to Access Haiti” was an inference. A registrant or service-provider listing cannot prove hosting, control, or an institutional outsourcing relationship. Verify each link with a primary record or direct confirmation.
WHOIS does not settle a media outlet’s ownership. A domain contact can be a registrant, agent, or privacy service; editorial control needs separate evidence.
Radio directories are discovery tools, not proof of state capacity. Listings do not establish live status, resilience, source verification, or that a station acts for government.
05 / The standard
Preserve the source.
Show the uncertainty.
A preservation site can become part of the public record only if visitors can tell an original publication from a saved copy, a government source from an independent report, and a verified fact from a lead.
“Every record should carry its origin, date, and chain of custody.”Working preservation principle
Provenance firstRecord the publisher, capture date, source URL, file details, and any known gaps.
Authority is explicitLabel official acts, archival copies, journalism, and analysis as distinct source types.
Haitian participationBuild a path for Haitian institutions, archivists, journalists, and communities to correct and contribute.
Care with peopleRespect privacy, copyright, safety, and the risk of amplifying unverified allegations.
Continuity, not impersonationIdentify this as an independent project; never present a preserved copy as a newly issued official publication.
Repairable recordsKeep preservation notes and correction history alongside each public item.
06 / Why we keep the record
Power rests on cooperation.
The record shows what it rests on.
Preservation is also advocacy. This project is grounded in nonviolence theory: the argument that every regime, institution, and armed group depends on the cooperation of people, and that a new Haiti can be built by people who know where that cooperation goes and choose where to give it.
Project positionThis section states the project’s values and theory of change. It is separate from the evidence map above, and its sources are cited by page so readers can check them.
“The stories are the power and gathering them is gathering power for everyone’s use and benefit.”Tom H. Hastings, The Lessons of Nonviolence (2006), p. 211
Albert puts the theory in one principle: all power — personal, institutional, social, political or economic — depends ultimately upon the obedience, consent and/or cooperation of those over whom the power is wielded.
Albert 1985, p. 12 · capitals in original
Atack states its consequence: When this consent or compliance is withdrawn by sufficient numbers of people (or social groups), no regime – no matter how oppressive or undemocratic – can survive.
Atack 2012, p. 3
Map the pillars
“The ‘pillars of support’ refer to the mechanisms of the state available to a government or ruling regime … especially the legal or court system, the police and the military.”Atack 2012, p. 113
In practice: the decision-authority map is a map of these pillars: who administers, who enforces, who audits, and who is vacant. People can only choose where to give their cooperation if they can see where it goes.
Secrecy sustains, records expose
“For an exploitative system to function effectively over the long term, it must be kept secret that people’s obedience and/or cooperation is responsible for creating unjust or life-denying conditions for some or for many.”Albert 1985, p. 49
In practice: dated, sourced, provenance-bound records make it harder to deny what was published, decreed, or spent. Hastings records how cover-ups backfire
once the truth is made known
(p. 134).
Build the new within the old
“Whereas noncooperation drained power away from the oppressors, the constructive programme generated it in the hands of the resisters.”Jonathan Schell, quoted in Atack 2012, p. 121
In practice: an independent public archive is constructive work. Gandhi’s satyagraha was a positive programme for building a new society, in tandem with challenging and changing the old
(Atack, p. 23). Reformers succeed when they offer tangible alternative models
(Albert, p. 53).
The means become the outcome
“[T]he problems that beset a nation or nation-state following a nonviolent liberation struggle can often be traced to the elements of violence that contaminated that struggle.”Hastings 2006, p. 48
In practice: no impersonation, no unverified allegations, no partisan alignment. A record that people across Haiti’s divides can trust is worth more than one that wins a single argument.
Name the limits honestly
“The consent theory of power, in other words, can underestimate the importance of external influences, or sources of power, to the survival of a particular regime.”Atack 2012, p. 132
In practice: Haiti’s power also flows from outside elites, foreign mandates, and armed coercion, and ‘Hard power’ … cannot be reduced to ‘soft power’
(Atack, p. 133). The map therefore tracks external mandates too, and the project does not claim that withdrawing cooperation alone ends armed violence.
An order that does not rest on violence
“…to provide the basis for forms of political organisation that can move beyond a dependence or reliance upon violence for social order and control.”Atack 2012, pp. 187–188
For Haiti: civil society as a counterweight to the state so that it cannot exercise its capacity for violence and oppression with impunity
(Atack, p. 73), starting with a shared and verifiable public record.
07 / A careful beginning
From context to durable access.
The first release is a project site and evidence map. A searchable archive should follow after source permissions, custody, and record formats are understood.
Map the authorities
Document who administers the .ht namespace, who may register names, and which rules apply.
Verify record trails
Find original publications, official repositories, and the institutions responsible for issuing them.
Preserve with context
Capture accessible public records with durable metadata, provenance, and correction notes.
Open the collection
Build a browsable archive when the project has a lawful, reliable, and sustainable source process.
08 / Reading room
Start with the documents.
This first site is grounded in the documents reviewed for the project. The links below lead to public source pages; the registry and security context can change, so date each later check.
IANA
.ht delegation recordManager, contacts, name servers, and listed registry endpoints · last updated March 2025
Open source ↗IANA
Report on redelegation of the .ht top-level domainHistorical decision report · 13 January 2004
Open source ↗ICANN GAC
Principles for delegation and administration of ccTLDsPolicy principles and roles · 23 February 2000
Open source ↗NIC HAITI
PARL rules for .HT domain disputesReviewed registry PDF · effective 1 February 2025 · French
Open source ↗GI-TOC
Brokers and patrons: Unstitching gangs from Haiti’s political fabricResearch brief · 24 March 2026 · analysis, not an official government source
Open source ↗NIC HAITI
.ht naming charter and provider directoriesReviewed local copies; verify the live registry pages before relying on current provider details.
Check NIC Haiti ↗Nonviolence theory · the project’s theory of change
BOOK
David H. Albert, People Power: Applying Nonviolence TheoryPhiladelphia: New Society Publishers, 1985 · the consent theory of power in one principle, the “blocks” that keep people cooperating with injustice, and why exposing hidden cooperation moves people to act
Cited pp. 12, 49, 53BOOK
Tom H. Hastings, The Lessons of Nonviolence: Theory and Practice in a World of ConflictJefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006 · nonviolent power as story and witness; who controls the record; record-keeping as practice; backfire when cover-ups fail
Cited pp. 48, 134, 211BOOK
Iain Atack, Nonviolence in Political TheoryEdinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012 · consent theory and its limits (external elites, hard power), pillars of support, Gandhi’s constructive programme, and civil society as a counterweight to state violence
Cited pp. 3, 23, 73, 113, 121, 132–133, 187–188The reviewed 2025 PARL rules name WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center as administrator. WIPO’s public ccTLD directory currently shows no dispute provider for .HT, so the live arrangement should be confirmed before anyone relies on the procedure. The supporting folder also contains the naming charter and local and international provider lists; preserve each with a source URL and capture date.