KENIC
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1. General
Number of staff?
Organisation structure?
What is your biggest challenge at the moment?

3 permanent staff plus 3 trainees
Public Private Partnerschip
Non-profit membership organisation with a Board
Housed in the regulators building

The biggest challenge at the moment is to create awareness that there
is .ke name space that can be used. At the beginning it was easier to
register under .com and .org than under .ke. It is a challenge now to
continue people that it has benefits to have a .ke name. Also, it used
to be very unstable (run by the monopoly netwerk). People had lost
trust in .ke. Kenic is trying to give incentive by having competitive
prices.

There are 6 second-level domains:
sc (schools)
or (organisators)
gov (governments)
ne (networks)
ac (academic)
co (commercial)


2 . Registration Process
How do registrations arrive?
How many people deal with them?
How are registration policies implemented?

Registrations are made on a fist come first served basis, except for
.gov.ke and .ac.ke (they require certain documentation).

Registrations are done through registrars, typically ISPs (they need
to fulfill certain requirements to become a registrar).

There is also a dispute resolution process.

3. Registry Data Store
Is there a single database?
How are zone files generated?
How is whois data generated?

single database


4. DNS Service
Which authoritative name servers are there?
Which software is used?
How is the zone file updated and distributed?

5. Whois Service
Which whois servers are available?
Which software is used?
How is whois data generated?

whois interface" www.kenic.or.ke

6. Boxes
Computing infrastructure in general (machines/OSes)?
Who owns and operates it?
Monitoring / reliability?

the registration system is based on the .br system

servers run FreeBSD, others Linux.