An archive of our news, with the most recent items appearing first. These include .nz policy and consultation announcements, newsletters and media releases.
News
15 Mar 2013
26 Feb 2013
The February 2013 newsletter is available. It includes .nz domain name statistics as at January 31 2013
08 Feb 2013
Registrars – the bodies able to sell .nz domain names to the public – this month celebrate ten years of being able to connect to a shared registry system.
22 Jan 2013
The January 2013 newsletter is available. It includes .nz domain name statistics as at December 31 2012
24 Dec 2012
19 Dec 2012
The December 2012 newsletter is available. It includes .nz domain name statistics as at 30 November 2012.
28 Nov 2012
The November 2012 newsletter is available. It includes .nz domain name statistics as at 31 October 2012.
12 Nov 2012
07 Nov 2012
The website www.drct.kiwi.nz has now been confirmed as New Zealand’s 500,000th active domain name within the .NZ domain space.
31 Oct 2012
The October 2012 newsletter is available. It includes .nz domain name statistics as at 30 September 2012.
12 Oct 2012
The Domain Name Commission (DNCL) is consulting with the New Zealand public on a proposal to extend the .nz domain name space by allowing registrations directly at the ‘second-level’.
28 Sep 2012
The September 2012 newsletter is available. It includes .nz domain name statistics as at 31 August 2012.
27 Sep 2012
The Domain Name Commission is proposing to extend the .nz domain name space by allowing anybody to register domain names at the ‘second level’. This has the potential to significantly alter New Zealand’s domain name space so it’s important we get your views. A consultation on this proposal has recently closed.
11 Sep 2012
InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) subsidiary the Domain Name Commission has today launched a new second level domain – .kiwi.nz – a move that has pushed the total number of .nz registrations past 500,000.
04 Sep 2012
The minutes of the DNCL Board meeting held on 15 August 2012 are available
30 Aug 2012
The August 2012 newsletter is available. It includes .nz domain name statistics as at 31 July 2012.
24 Aug 2012
InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) is pleased to announce that it has approved the creation of a new second level domain in the .nz domain name space - .kiwi.nz.
31 Jul 2012
The July 2012 newsletter is available. It includes .nz domain name statistics as at 30 June 2012.
The July 2012 .nz newsletter is available at /content/jul_12_newsletter.pdf
29 Jun 2012
The June 2012 newsletter is available. It includes .nz domain name statistics as at 31 May 2012.
27 Jun 2012
The minutes of the DNCL Board meeting held on 14 June 2012 are available