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NIC Chile

Organization
Type registry
Region LAC
Country
  • Chile
City Santiago
Founded 1987
Websites

NIC Chile is the Network Information Center of Chile and the official registry for the .cl country code top-level domain (ccTLD). It is sponsored by University of Chile.[1]

History[edit | edit source]

NIC Chile was established in 1987 under the supervision of University of Chile. For 10 years it provided its services free of charge. Today, NIC Chile is one of the most established Network Information Centers in the world. It has participated actively in ICANN conferences and and meetings since the beginning of ICANN. NIC Chile claims that use of .cl is more than .com in Chile and it has registered over 600,000 .cl domain names.[2]

In 2006, NIC Chile signed an Accountability Framework with ICANN, the first Latin American country to do so.[3]

NIC Labs[edit | edit source]

NIC Labs is a project started in 2008 by NIC Chile. It is also known as research labs of NIC Chile.[4] Responsibilities of NIC Labs include the implementation of IPv6 in Chile. It is also working in the field of open source systems and ICT development.[5]

Memberships[edit | edit source]

NIC Chile is a member of LACTLD, ccNSO, ISOC and DNS-OARC.[6]

References[edit | edit source]

Semantic properties for "NIC Chile"
Date foundedStores the date that an object was founded, normalized to the "Month DD, YYYY" format.
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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.
Santiago +
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 +