The Council of Country Code Administrators (CoCCA) is rapidly picking up new clients with the announcement that .ZM (Zambia) and .BW (Botswana) have selected the CoCCA registry system for managing their ccTLDs. With the addition of the two ccTLDs and .GY (Guyana) recently completing a migration to the CoCCA NOC, meaning that close to one in seven country code Top Level Domains now use CoCCA registry services.
The announcement of .ZM and .BW by the Zambia Information Communications
Technology Authority (ZICTA) and the Botswana Telecommunications
Authority (BTA) respectively was taken with the view that the ccTLDs are
critical infrastructure.
“Deploying CoCCA’s Registry System was the logical choice as ZICTA does
not wish to outsource or deploy a propriety registry system,” said ZICTA
project Manager Choolwe Nalubamba. “CoCCA’s success has been in its
approach - they treat a TLD registry as a “shrink-wrapped” standards
based database application - not a complex system requiring foreign
expertise.”
The addition of .ZM and .BW brings the total number of ccTLDs that have
deployed the CoCCA solution in Africa and the Middle East to 14
(including three Arabic IDN TLDs) while 35 ccTLDs have deployed it
globally. CoCCA’s Technology is used to run twice as many TLD s as our
closest competitor, Affilias. Several more ccTLDs are currently
evaluating CoCCA and additional announcements are expected soon.
In addition to the .ZM and .BW TLDs, the University of Guyana has
completed a migration of the .GY ccTLD to the CoCCA NOC, while
continuing to operate a mirror registry system for failover and escrow
in country, something that is easy when using CoCCA’s registry system.
“The reason for our success is our philosophy, at CoCCA we view a TLD
registry as a database application, our software application can be
downloaded and installed in minutes on Linux / OSX or WIN7 operating
systems in the same way one would install an office suite” said Garth
Miller, CEO, CoCCA Registry Services (NZ) Limited. “We provide users
with a commercial subscription option with automated updates and
security patches, we constantly modify the software to comply with IETF
and ICANN requirements and the demands of the market”
Version four, to be released in June will comply fully with ICANN’s evolving gTLD requirements.
For more information on CoCCA Registry Services, see cocca.org.nz.