Domain Registration Related News
Control of .za Domain to Change Hands
October 2004
According to reports, management of South
Africa's .za top-level domain is expected to be
assigned to another authority at the ICANN (icann.org)
meeting to be held in Cape Town in December.
The South African Department of Communications
said on Thursday that the .za Domain Name
Authority has applied to ICANN to be given
responsibility for the domain. The Electronic
Communications and Transactions Act of 2002 had
called for the creation of a new body to take
control of the .za.
Up till now, the .za registry, which includes
between 100,000 and 150,000 registered names, has
been administered by a single person - Mike Lawrie
- who is credited with bringing the Internet to
South Africa.
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