InternetNZ has launched an online marketing campaign to promote ".nz" internet addresses as growth in website registrations slows and fresh competition from new "top-level domain names" looms.
Growth in the number of ".nz" addresses fell below 10 per cent for the first time this year.
Icann, the global body that administers the internet, plans to open up the internet addressing system next year, so people would be able to register web addresses ending in any suffix such as city and company names rather than the usual ."com" or country codes.
InternetNZ president Peter Macaulay says no-one knows whether that will have an effect on the demand for ".nz" addresses, but it was one factor behind the ".nz is our home" campaign".
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