NIC.ac
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| Type: | Privately held |
| Industry: | Internet |
| Founded: | 1997 |
| Headquarters: | ICB Plc.9 Queens Road Bournemouth Dorset BH2 6B |
| Country: | UK |
| Employees: | 100 |
| Website: | Nic.ac |
| Key People | |
| Paul Kane, Manager | |
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.
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, the central road-map database of the Internet since 2003. One of the projects NIc.ac supported was the automation project called e-IANA endorsed by ccTLD Registries around the world that will improve the efficiency of the IANA service to the Registry Community.[3]
Recently, Paul Kane was the only representative from the United Kingdom chosen by ICANN to serve as a Trusted Community Representative (TCR) responsible for safe-guarding a share of the ROOT Zone's DNSSEC Recovery Key.[4]