Norid AS
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| Type: | Non-Profit |
| Industry: | Internet governance |
| Founded: | July 1, 2003 |
| Ownership: | Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance |
| Headquarters: | Abels gate 5 – Teknobyen NO-7465 Trondheim |
| Country: | Norway |
| Employees: | 18 |
| Email: | info [at] norid.no |
| Website: | http://www.norid.no |
| Key People | |
| Hilde Thunem, General Manager Annebeth Lange | |
Norid AS operates the registry for Norwegian domain names. All domains directly under .no are registered with Norid. In addition to processing applications, the company develops domain name policies. It is also responsible for the technical operation and development of associated services, as well as other national tasks related to its core activities.
Norid has also been delegated the responsibility for the top level domains .bv (Bouvetøya or Bouvet Island) and .sj (Svalbard and Jan Mayen). So far these have not been opened for registration of domain names.
The service is regulated by the Domain Name Regulations and is supervised by the Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom). Norid is not a public administrative agency, and the allocation of domain name subscriptions is based on private law. The company acts as a neutral party and operates on a non-profit basis.[1]
Norid is a member of CENTR.[2]
History[edit | edit source]
In 1987, responsibility for the ccTLD was assigned to the neutral agency UNNINET, after the project's creation the year before. In 1993, UNNINET AS is established as its own corporation, wholly owned by the Ministry of Education and Science and without commercial interests.[3]
The .no project started being referred to as Norid in 1996, which stands for Norwegian service for registration of Internet domain names. In 1998, the advisory body Norpol was formed, and in 1999, Norid operations were transferred from UNINETT to the newly-formed subsidiary, UNINETT FAS AS. Later in 1999, the registrar system was introduced. In 2003, UNINETT Norid AS was established as a subsidiary under UNINETT.
In 2002, Norid participated in a working group under Norway's Ministry of Transport and Communications, where a proposal was created for formalizing the administrative model for the .no domain. The proposal was implemented in 2003 through a Domain Regulation, which in addition to RFC1591, specifies the framework for administration of the .no domain. The model is shown in the diagram below.[4]
By early 2011, half a million domain names had been registered under .no.[5]
In October 2011, Norid raised the number of domain names a company can own from 20 to 100.[6]
After 25 of being part of the Uninett group, Norid's ownership was transferred in 2021. Since then, Norid is owned by the Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance.[1]
Registry Policies[edit | edit source]
The following matrix was developed by NORID, the .no registry, in 2005 and has served the entire ccTLD community to understand how certain policies might considerably contribute to the TLD uptake.[4]
The axes show the correlation and impact of two central aspects that shape the domain name policy:
- Requirements for the applicant
- Provide documentation that he has a right to the name
- Have a local presence in the area of the ccTLD
- Be an organisation
- Number of domain names allowed per applicant
- Limited/Unlimited
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Norid: About Norid
- ↑ CENTR: Members
- ↑ Large Norwegian lexicon: Uninett
- ↑ Jump up to: 4.0 4.1 MEAC DNS Study, ICANN.org. Published 2015 October 13. Retrieved 2015 November 12.
- ↑ Norid History
- ↑ Norid sued over .co.no domains, DomainIncite.com. Published 27 October 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
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