New Zealand’s Domain Name Commissioner has been sharing its expertise both in New Zealand and among a couple of Pacific countries, signing 4 Memorandums of Understanding, the latest announced this week with Papua New Guinea’s ccTLD manager.
Previous MoUs have been with CERT NZ, The Telecommunications and Radiocommunications Regulator of Vanuatu and the Digital Safety Directorate in NZ’s Department of Internal Affairs.
In the latest MoU [pdf] with the Department of Information Technology of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology, who manages the country’s country code top level domain (ccTLD) .pg, the DNC will collaborate and cooperate on rules and regulations, dispute resolution, consumer protection and any other issues that emerge.
It appears registrations of .pg domain names are restricted to Papua New Guinea entities with com.pg and net.pg domain names requiring proof they’re for bona fide PNG businesses. Other second level .pg domain names available for registration include org.pg, gov.pg and ac.pg.
The DNC is a body appointed by InternetNZ, who is delegated to manage .nz, to develop and monitor a competitive registrar market, as well as create a fair environment for the registration and management of .nz domain names.
Recently the DNC has been seeking feedback on its first Independent Review, giving New Zealanders and anyone else that’s interested an opportunity to have their say on how the Commission can best serve the sellers, buyers and service providers in the .nz domain name industry and how the Commission should represent itself at international fora alongside InternetNZ. Consultation closes on 6 June.