On 5th January 2012, tzNIC met with the .tz accredited Registrars at Holiday Inn hotel in Dar es Salaam. During the meeting tzNIC updated the registrars on the following issues: i) .tz registry infrastructure - F root hosting at tzNIC and DNSSEC deployment; ii) New policy on domain registration refund; iii) New SLDs establishment for increased registrant (consumer) competition, innovation and choice; iv) .tz domain registrations - growth and fee (merged and with VAT added); v) 3 months (January – March 2012) plan for 3R model adoption.
tzNIC plans to expand its Second Level Domain (SLD) space from 7 to 12 in year 2012. This follows the 28th PAC meeting resolution/approval for 5 new SLDs namely .hotel.tz; .mobi.tz; .tv.tz; .info.tz and .me.tz. The existing SLDs are .go.tz; .ac.tz; .mil.tz; .co.tz; .or.tz; .ne.tz and .sc.tz. The expansion is expected to provide competition, innovation and more choices to registrants/consumers.
Last Updated on Thursday, 22 December 2011 13:24
tzNIC adopts the new domain registration refund policy
For the past 3 years of operations, tzNIC has encountered a number of domain registration challenges such as registrants requesting for domain name renaming, say “bxbybz.co.tz” to “bxbz.co.tz”, etc. “bx”,” by”, “bz” could be the letters representing names of three business partners. In case partner “by” decides otherwise then a need may arise for domain renaming to “bxby.co.tz”. Under the current domain registration rules, domain name modification does not include renaming the domain. With the new policy there is an opportunity to rename a domain that is registered within a period of 7 days.