История и развитие доменной зоны .nz

Internet country code top level domain for New Zealand

As with many long standing domain registries, the registry was maintained informally for some time. The first formally recognised administrative organisation was the University of Waikato until the responsibility was delegated to InternetNZ when it was formed in 1995. so InternetNZ moved to separate the provision of registry services into a separate organisation with strong oversight. The final part of this transition process was the sale of Domainz to Melbourne IT in August 2003. From 1 April 2008 the "Office of the Domain Name Commissioner" (several employees of InternetNZ, including the Domain Name Commissioner herself) became the "Domain Name Commission Limited", a subsidiary company of InternetNZ.

The Shared Registry System (SRS) was initially developed in 2002, and provided nz registry services until November 2022. In January 2004 the source code to the SRS system was released to the public under a GPL license. Since 2010 the SRS also supported the standard Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP). In September 2019 InternetNZ announced their intent to replace the SRS and that the new system would not include the SRS protocol. The transition to a closed source commercial registry product provided by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority was completed on the 1st of November, 2022. This transition replaced both the public facing WHOIS service and the APIs used by registrars to interact with the registry.

On 22 July 2010, the Domain Name Commission announced that nz domain names with macron vowels (ā, ē, ī, ō and ū) would be available from the following week to allow Māori language words to be correctly represented in domain names.

. geek. nz This second level domain was approved by the council of InternetNZ on 5 July 2003.
kiwi. nz This second level domain was approved on 24 August 2012 and made available for registrations on 11 September 2012.

There are a number of second level domains that identify whether the user is a company, a non commercial organisation, government body or other classification. In October 2013, InternetNZ decided to allow domain names to be registered at the second level in the nz domain name space, aligning the nz domain name space with a majority of other top level domains that already allow registrations directly at the second level. The second level domain names were launched with a sunrise period from 30 September 2014 to 30 March 2015 (to allow people with similar domains to register the shorter version). From 30 March 2015 nz domain names were available to everyone. The early New Zealand second level domains ac. nz, co. nz and govt. nz were based on those used in the UK. At the time it was considered desirable that the names were not in use as first level domains, so edu. nz, com. nz and gov. nz were rejected. There are also sub level domains unique to New Zealand, such as iwi. nz for Māori iwi and the broader maori. nz for other Māori organisations, and geek. nz for "geeks". The following second level domains are in use with their official descriptions. Since only some of the domains are moderated, it is possible to register outside the area intended.

. nz – First level NZ domain, general use
ac. nz – Tertiary educational institutions and related organisations
co. nz – Organisations pursuing commercial aims and purposes
geek. nz – For people who are concentrative, technically skilled, and imaginative who are generally adept with computers
gen. nz – Individuals and other organisations not covered elsewhere
kiwi. nz – For people or organisations that associate with being 'Kiwi' (the colloquial term for New Zealanders)
maori. nz – Māori people, groups, and organisations
net. nz – Organisations and service providers directly related to the NZ Internet
org. nz – Not for profit organisations
school. nz – Primary, secondary and pre schools and related organisations

. cri. nz – Crown Research Institutes
govt. nz – National, regional and local government organisations operating with statutory powers. The government registrar, DNS. govt. nz controls registration; a government portal operates at www. govt. nz
health. nz – Health organisations
iwi. nz – Traditional Māori iwi (tribes), hapū, or Taura here groups
mil. nz – The military organisation of the New Zealand government, the New Zealand Defence Force
parliament. nz – Reserved for parliamentary agencies, offices of parliament, and parliamentary political parties and their elected members; main website operates at www. parliament. nz

archie. nz – used for an Archie search engine server operated by the University of Waikato until the mid 1990s.