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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.

Other issues discussed at the meeting included:
i)    Best domain registration practices;
ii)   Customization of .tz registry system for possible funds transfer by registrars from one SLD account to another;
iii)    Need for tzNIC to share the earlier deleted domains (before tzNIC took over domain registration responsibilities) for joint efforts of re-registration by domain owners;
iv)    Need for detailed statistics on tzNIC websites;
v)    Plan for incentives to registrars  and categorization of registrars to gold, silver, Tanzanite or Bronze based on monthly domain registrations and retention;
vi)    Zone reloading intervals.

During the meeting tzNIC also distributed the FY 2009/10 annual reports and stickers to the attending registrars. The sticker has the caption “.tz accredited Registrar”.

At the end of the meeting attendees had a group photo just before the last session, the "networking lunch".

Last Updated on Friday, 06 January 2012 13:06