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AusRegistry

AusRegistry is a Melbourne, Australia based company that specialises in domain name registry services. In 2002, AusRegistry was awarded a four-year contract to operate the domain name registry for auDA in several second-level domains under .au such as .com.au and .net.au. In 2005, AusRegistry was once again selected to be the registry operator for a second four year period commencing on July 1, 2006. AusRegistry's TLD registry is compliant with the latest EPP standards and was one of the first to offer rapid DNS updating in ccTLD zone files.

Canadian Internet Registration Authority

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) (French: Autorité canadienne pour les enregistrements Internet ACEI) is a non-profit Canadian corporation that is responsible for operating the .ca country code top-level domain. It was incorporated in 1998 and assumed operation of .ca on December 1st, 2000 from the University of British Columbia. CIRA is based in the national capital Ottawa, Ontario. Canadian federal departments and agencies do not, as a rule, register directly under the .ca domain name but register their domain names in the gc.ca sub-domain with the Department of Public Works and Government Services Canada registry that is accessible at registry.gc.ca.

China Internet Network Information Center

China Internet Network Information Center (Simplified Chinese:中国互联网络信息中心), or CNNIC, was founded as a non-profit organization on June 3, 1997. CNNIC is the administrative agency responsible for Internet affairs under the Ministry of Information Industry of the People's Republic of China.

CZ.NIC

CZ.NIC has been founded in 1998 as neutral operator of ccTLD domain .cz, previously managed by EUNet Czechia (and its successors). CZ.NIC worked as policy making organisation, while technical operation has been outsourced (currently by T-Systems Pragonet). At 2003 CZ.NIC received permission for operation of eNum domain for Czech telephone numbers 0.2.4.e164.arpa. During the 2006 CZ.NIC decided to insource technical operation of the domain management systems. New systems has been developed till autumn of 2006 and trial operation of Czech eNum is running on this software.

DENIC

DENIC Verwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft eG is the manager of the .de domain, the country-code top-level domain for Germany. In 2005, it was one of five bidders seeking to win contract to operate the .net contract offered by ICANN. The Country_code_top-level_domain (ccTLD) 'DE' (".de") refers to Germany. See also NIC (Network Information Centre).

DNS Belgium

DNS Belgium or DNS.be is a non-profit organisation responsible for managing the .be top level domain. Domain names are registered by the various agents of DNS Belgium, on behalf of their individual clients, as part of a decentralised registration and applications procedure. Established in 1999 by the Internet Service Providers Association, Fabrimetal and the Belgium Telecommunications Users Group, DNS Belgium adopted this decentralised network of registrars on December 11, 2000 in order to create a simpler, automated procedure for the registration of domain names. Since 2003, the company has been party to a data escrow agreement, to ensure continuity of services. The organisation's name is derived, in part, from the term domain name server. DNS.be is a founder member of the EURid consortium which administers the .eu TLD, and provided the model upon which the organisation is based.

Domain Registry of America

The Domain Registry of America is an Internet domain registrar based in the Canadian province of Ontario best known for sending solicitations for business that resemble legitimate invoices. In 2003, the Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with the company for practices such as transferring domain registrations to their service under the guise of domain renewal, and having hidden fees. Despite this action, the company still sends mass direct mail to consumers resembling invoices with "domain name expiration notice" in bold print. Targets for the company's mass mailings are known to be in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States with information obtained in violation of their ICANN registrar agreement.

Domainz

Domainz Limited was the original .nz registry operator and is now an ICANN accredited domain name registrar and web host. IANA delegated the .nz namespace to John Houlker on 19 January 1987, and the University of Waikato issued .nz domain names and maintained the .nz registry during the early part of Internet availability in New Zealand. During 1996, as Internet use was flourishing in New Zealand, and operation of the .nz registry was becoming burdensome on the University of Waikato, John Houlker, IANA and The Internet Society of New Zealand (Isocnz) agreed to a redelegation of the .nz name to Isocnz. The University of Waikato was contracted to continue hosting the .nz namespace until Isocnz was in a position to assume full responsibility for the Domain Name System (DNS). Isocnz established a subsidiary company “The New Zealand Internet Registry Ltd”, trading as Domainz, to run the .nz registry, on 15 April 1997. Domainz commenced allocating domain names, to both companies and individuals, evolving what was known as the Domainz Registration System (DRS).

eNom

eNom, Inc. is an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar and Web hosting company that also sells other products closely tied to domain names, such as SSL certificates, e-mail services, and Website building software. As of 2007, it was the second largest domain name registrar, managing over 8 million domains.

Museum Domain Management Association

The Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma) was created in 2000 by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the J. Paul Getty Trust. MuseDoma is the sponsoring organization for the .museum top-level domain.

Network Solutions

Network Solutions, LLC is a technology company which was founded in 1979. The domain name registration business has become the most important division of the company. As of 2006, Network Solutions manages more than 7.6 million domain names. Their size, founding status, and longevity have made them one of the most important corporations affecting domain name price and policy.

NeuStar

NeuStar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) is a provider of clearinghouse and directory services to the global communications and Internet industry. Its customers use the databases NeuStar contractually maintains in its clearinghouse to obtain data required to route telephone calls in North America, to exchange information with other communications service providers, and to manage technological changes in their own networks.

Register.com

Register.com (formerly Forman Interactive) was founded as a provider of Internet services by brothers Richard and Peter Forman in 1994. In 1999 the company officially changed its name to Register.com. On April 21st 1999, ICANN announced Register.com was one of the first five testbed registrars for the competitive Shared Registry System. On June 7th, the company began operations under this name as a paid registrar in the .com, .net and .org domains. It was the first of the five testbed registrars to come online.

Tucows

Tucows (originally an acronym for The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software that has long since been dropped) was formed in Flint, Michigan, USA in 1993. It incorporated in Pennsylvania and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The company is perhaps most well known for its popular website directory of shareware, freeware, and demo software packages available to download. A system of mirror sites are maintained to allow the traffic to the site to be distributed among several world wide server locations. Tucows contains software for many major computer platforms including Windows, Linux and Macintosh, and also older versions of Windows (most notably the Windows 3.x series).

UK2.net

UK2.net is British internet services company. It is one of the largest web hosting providers in the UK. UK2.net is a member and tag holder of Nominet, enabling it to directly register and update .uk domains on behalf of customers. It is also a major shareholder of the merged Telecity group (one of the biggest colocation managed data centres in Europe). UK2 is located in the Canary Wharf area of London. Address is 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5DY, United Kingdom.