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NIC.ac

Organization
Type Commercial
Focus Internet
Region EUR
Country
  • United Kingdom
City Bournemouth
Founded 1997
Websites

Nic.ac is the registry for the country code top-level domain name .ac, of the Ascension Islands. It is a subsidiary of the Internet Computer Bureau. Paul Kane is the manager of the registry.

The company is based in United Kingdom and it has offices in the United States and Japan. NIC.ac servers are located in Amsterdam, London, Melbourne, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo.

IDN Names[edit | edit source]

Nic.ac names accept IDN Code Point Policy, which means that IDN names, for example 상표.ac, can be registered and used.

Registrars[edit | edit source]

Nic.ac offers domain name registration, management, and renewal.[1] .ac is an Open ccTLD, and thus, registration of .ac domain name is open for everyone and it is offered internationally by its accredited registrars worldwide which include Instra Corporation, Melbourne IT, French Connexion, INDOM, Key-Systems GmbH, Asadal Domain Center, Nominalia, IP Mirror Pte Ltd, CyberQuest UK etc. [2]

NIC.ac and ICANN[edit | edit source]

Nic.ac, through its manager Paul Kane, was one of the CENTR members that supported ICANN to improve the services of IANA. One of the projects nic.ac supported was the automation project called e-IANA endorsed by ccTLD registries around the world that would improve the efficiency of the IANA service to the Registry Community.[3]

References[edit | edit source]

Semantic properties for "NIC.ac"
Date foundedStores the date that an object was founded, normalized to the "Month DD, YYYY" format.
1997 +
Has ICANN regionAssociates an object with an ICANN-determined Geographic Region.
Has cityStores the city associated with an object. This value does not get normalized.
Bournemouth +
Has countryAssociates a page with a country. Territory names are extracted from ISO 3166, "Country Codes".
Has entity typeSpecifies the primary classification or fundamental type of the page's subject (e.g., Event, Organization, Person).
Organization +
Has focusAssociates an object with a focus theme. Not normalized.
Internet +
Has organization typeAssociates an organization with its organizational or legal type (e.g., Non-profit, Government agency, Commercial).