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List of all DNC authorised registrars is available with .nz domain name pricing and other details. Please be advised that the list is out of date but it will be updated in future.

	Thursday, 8 December 2005

Behold the future!
I have been mulling the future of this site from some time.

The reason is simple, .nz, in general, has its shit together. Things are not falling apart or lawsuits being threatened (or in some cases filed) and multi million dollar projects run by inept management are not occurring any more.

I created this blog back in July 2002 in the days of the formation of the SRS to highlight what was going to those people that did not ‘live the SRS’.

While I do not think .nz is perfect it is one of the best ccTLD’s. I think that for instance NZOC should be more transparent and broader process for appointments and full registrar stats being made public.

The last part of the jigsaw is the .nz disputes process. Once that is implemented I will cover any initial cases and then I think I will turn out the lights. I plan to keep the site online for all those amusing Google searches I get.

Other options were to turn it into a ‘personal blog’ but then again I would rather give myself a lobotomy with a spork than do that. For a brief moment I had thought about running the Unofficial DPF Fan Site (UDPFFS) but I think some 8 year old girl called Sarah is already planning on doing that so I wont steal her thunder :-)

I plan to refocus my attention on the registrar survey that I was half way through doing before a hard drive crash and being a reference site for the .nz ccTLD.

Of course if I’m lucky .nz could all fall apart and I could have a ‘target rich environment’ again and things will be back to the ‘good old days’. Here’s hoping!
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	Tuesday, 12 April 2005

SSC becomes registrar
NZ Herald has a story on State Services Comission becoming a .nz Registrar. I have been aware of a while about the SSC trying to figure out what to do with the registration name process and how to run it or select a registrar. I find the part that One Squared 'built the registrry'. I assume they mean the little web based application that handles name submissions and the approval process... yeah, that sounds like a registry to me.
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	Saturday, 26 March 2005

Registrar stats for gTLD, .au and .nz
I have blogged the market share and registrar averages for ICANN, auDA and DNC approved registrars. I think it makes some interesting points such as ICANN and DNC have very similar profile other than the names per registrar average.
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	Wednesday, 23 March 2005

InternetNZ settles Melbourne IT claim over Domainz sale
Interesting tidbit in the minutes of the InternetNZ council meeting. InternetNZ approved a payment of $20,000 to Melbourne IT to settle a claim that they had made. I wonder what the issue was and how much they actually asked for?
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	Tuesday, 22 February 2005

Melbourne IT reaps in the dosh
Melbourne IT (the owner of Domainz) has released a statement that profit is going well and could out do the last 12 months. It states Domainz was one on 'strong contributions' to the profit.
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	Monday, 24 January 2005

Stuff on .nz disputes process
Stuff has a story on th e.nz dispute process. Some quotes from Peter Dengate-Thrush, Domainz and FreeParking. Normally a WG member does not speak their own views to the media. I wonder if the WG changed the normal agreement?
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	Monday, 13 December 2004

expired domain names
NBR has a good story with a very misleading title regarding expired .nz domain names and a new service from Net24.Reminds me to blog about my thoughts on expired domain name 'services' and also to update the .nz registrar price list.
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	Tuesday, 24 August 2004

Calling me a liar eh?
IDG has a story on the Intergen/Vodafone issue I posted about last week. The interesting thing is I spent a long time on the Intergen website looking for domain name information. Now Intergen says that it was online all this time... guess I am being called a liar?

In all of New Zealand perhaps half a dozen people know .nz domain name polices, process and the SRS history better than I do. If one of the 'experts' in this area can not find the alleged information on a public site I think it is safe to assume it is so well hidden that in reality it does not exist.

Knowing that Intergen (or one of its previous incarnations) wrote the DRS for Domainz you can reach your own conclusion on quality standards and over all process of that company.

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