Presentation to InternetNZ Council 31 August 2007

Introductions

• Anne Urlwin Chair • Nick Griffin General Manager

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New Zealand Domain Name Registry Ltd

• 100% owned by InternetNZ• Formed in 2002• Board

– Anne Urlwin – Carol Stigley– David Farrar– Doug Mercer– Donna Hiser

• Staff- Nick Griffin

- Dave Baker

- Trent Connor

- Sue Carter

Income and Expenses

• Income from Domain Name fees– Received from Registrars – Budget 2007-2008 $5.8m

• Expenses– Operating Expenses– DNC Fee 2007-2008 $1.0m

• Dividend to InternetNZ as Shareholder– 2007-2008 $1.7m

Domain Name Fee

• Fee Setting Exercise – Undertaken Annually– NZRS and NZOC make recommendation to INZ– INZ Council approve change in the Domain Name

Fee

• Domain Name Fee (per name per month)

– 2002 $2.00– 2004 $1.75– 2007 $1.50

Key Results

  2005-06 2006-07 % change

Registry Fees (000’s) $4,314 $5,301 23%

Net Profit after tax (000’s) $1,132 $2,017 78%

Dividend (000’s) $500 $1,400 180%

     

Registrars 56 62 11%

Domain Names 221,433 272,752 23%

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The .nz Domain Name Space

InternetNZ

NZOCDNCAuthorisedRegistrars

NZRS

Service Level Agreement

Authorisation Agreement

Registrants

Connection Agreement

Registrant Agreement

CatalystService Level Agreement

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ICANN IANA

Domain Name net growth 2002-2007

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Service Level Agreement

• Between InternetNZ and NZRS• Managed for InternetNZ by the Office of the Domain

Name Commissioner (DNC)• SLA includes:

– Register performance and management standards– Availability and response times– Reporting and communication requirements

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Edit Date: 28 Aug, 2007NZ Registry Services

AppDB

Internet

AppDB

AppDB

AppDB

AppDB

WebServer

LoggingMonitoring

LoggingMonitoring

Registrars

Master /SlaveDNS

App Servers

App ServersAlbany

Wellington

Master / SlaveDNS

VPN

Physical

Read-Only

StatefulFilteringRouter

(and VPN endpoint)

Admin

Catalyst

NZRS

WebServer

App DB

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NZRS out sources the development and operational support to Catalyst IT

Business Continuity Plan is supported out of Auckland by Open System Specialists (OSS)

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Key Suppliers

Shared Registry System (SRS)

• Developed using Open Source software• Debian GNU/Linux• Perl• XML for processing and database access• PostgreSQL database• Apache Webservers

• SRS published as Open Source

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Measuring and Monitoring Registry Performance

.nz

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Availability requirements

• SRS – 99.90%

• WHOIS service – 99.90%

• DNS – 100%

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System monitoring

• Developed using Open Source software

• System outage• Escalation strategy depending on issue• Detailed monitoring of WHOIS access• All systems monitored by server and service

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NZRS Reporting

• NZRS reports to DNC monthly– Availability and performance results

– All exceptions to the targets

– Notifies of any issues involving registrars or WHOIS request

– Provides general statistical information, for example:

• Domain name statistics

• Registrar market share

• Registrar activity including number, and duration, of registrations and renewals

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Public informationActive names as at 31 June

Active names as at end 31 July

New registrations July

Renewals July

Net Growth

.ac 1318 1340 35 320 22

.co 245342 249984 7586 54,490 4642

.cri 17 17 0 3 0

.geek 769 774 15 213 5

.gen 1114 1127 24 299 13

.govt 898 905 7 740 7

.iwi 29 59 0 13 0

.maori 473 470 10 80 -3

.mil 18 18 1 10 0

.net 17216 17517 578 3661 301

.org 16675 16952 470 3593 277

.parliament 4 4 0 4 0

.school 2636 2650 27 1160 14

TOTAL 286539 291817 8753 64586 5278

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Availability

Public information

SLA May 2007

June 2007

July 2007

SRS Availability % 99.90 99.95 99.93 100

Whois 99.90 99.97 99.93 99.96

DNS 100 100 100 100

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Public information

Avg Response time (in seconds)

SLA Target

May 2007 June 2007 July 2007

Domain Details Query ≤1.5 0.03 0.03 0.03

Domain Update ≤0.8 0.50 0.46 0.49

Domain Create ≤0.8 0.61 0.50 0.54

GetMessage performance ≤0.8 0.03 0.02 0.03

Whois ≤0.8 0.11 0.10 0.12

Whois queries at back end including Registrar (volume 000’s)

N/A 1,740 1,800 2,300

Whois Server Queries (volume 000’s)

N/A 235 239 256

UDAI Valid Query ≤0.8 0.15 0.13 0.14

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NZRS ‘real time’ info

• Public information www.nzrs.net.nz :– Current status of all SRS servers– Current number of active .nz names– Notice of planned outages– Schedule of updates– DNS status in real time http://dnsmon.ripe.net/

• Registrar only information:– Transaction record– Transfers in and out– Account details

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