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| logo            = CoCCA Registry Services (NZ) Limited logo.png|thumb
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| type            = Private Company
| industry        = Registrar
| industry        = TLD Registry
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| founded        = New Zealand 2009
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| ownership      = Incorporated 2009
| headquarters    = Drumsite, Christmas Island
| headquarters    = Auckland
| country        = Australia
| country        = New Zealand
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| website        = [http://www.cocca.cx cocca.cx]
| email          = support [@] coccaregistry.org
| website        = https://cocca.org.nz
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CoCCA is an acronym for Council of Country Code Administrators. The registry software CoCCA authors and maintains is the most widely deployed country code top level domain ("ccTLD") solution in the industry.


'''Council of Country Code Administrators''', or '''CoCCA''', is a non-profit organization and a forum engaged in the collaboration of [[ccTLD]] managers. Membership to this organization is free.<ref>[http://www.sanog.org/resources/sanog6/aslam-cocca-preso.pdf]</ref> The Council of Country Code Administrators also happens to be an active [[Domain Roundtable]] participant.
Of the 308 delegated ccTLDs, the CoCCA software is used to manage 54 ccTLDs. The CoCCA software is also used to manage six non-country ICANN TLDs. In total 60 TLDs.


==Services==
TLD Managers who wish to be patrons purchase support. CoCCA support provides TLD managers with custom features, priority bug fixes, training, data escrow, failover sites, abuse mitigation tools and AUP complaint resolution services. The support fee is flat, and not based on transactions or domains under managament.
CoCCA is involved in the following activities:<ref>[http://www.sanog.org/resources/sanog6/aslam-cocca-preso.pdf]</ref>
* Deployment support
* Harmonized development of policy
* Training and technical support provisions for ccTLD members
* CoCCA OpenReg development, registry software
* Additional value added and upgrade features as per the demands and needs of the ccTLDs.


==CoCCA Open Registry== 
[[Category:Registrars]]
The CoCCA OpenReg works on multiple platforms that include Solaris, MacOCX, Windows and Linux. This is an open source based registry where the Registry-Registrar components are full featured as well as contain several other value added features. The open registry is also capable of personalized [[Whois]] and Automatic PDF invoicing.<ref>[http://www.sanog.org/resources/sanog6/aslam-cocca-preso.pdf]</ref>
[[Category:ccNSO]]
 
===Features===
The zone generator customizable Whois feature of the CoCCA OpenReg allows the public to access all the information concerning Whois. The open registry also offers the users a domain transfer feature, which allows full domain name transfer controlled by the registrant. Flexible customization applied to policies of registry and renewals are also some of the features of CoCCA OpenReg. It also enables automatic invoicing for bulk renewals as well as multiple annual renewals. The registration restriction feature is a key option, which controls use of offensive names and generic names such as names of places and famous personality names.<ref>[http://www.sanog.org/resources/sanog6/aslam-cocca-preso.pdf]</ref>
 
==CoCCA Registry ccTLDs users==
* Christmas Island (.cx)
* Afghanistan (.af)
* Dominica (.dm)
* Timor-Leste (.tl)
* Legacy (.TP)
* Mauritius (.mu)
* Norfolk Island (.nf)
* South Georgia (.gs)
* Namibia (.na)
* Mangolia (.mn) (Use under discussion)
 
The members at CoCCA aim and work towards developing administrative policies, technologies and models through consensus in order to bring improvement in the technical stability, interoperability, utility and technical stability of the ccTLDs members with DNS.<ref>[http://cocca.cx/]</ref>
 
==References==
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