I volunteered to summerize the current status of which registries are gov't funded, or university funded, etc. Here are the only 6 countries that answered:

Not quite -- I explained the UK situation on this list a few weeks ago. In your characterisation, (a) -- government funded -- is probably the best approximation. However, it's the bit of 'government' that funds university wide-area networking, so maybe you count that as 'university'? I don't know, as your wording's ambiguous -- if 'university' means that a single university funds it then that's *not* the situation, but if 'university' means that the funding comes from the academic networking activities then that would be the situation. Bob Day