DNS History

History dates back to the ARPANET era.

Stanford Research Institute maintained a text file named HOSTS.TXT

Paul Mockapetris designed the Domain Name System at the University of California, Irvine in 1983

The Internet Engineering Task Force published the original specifications in RFC 882 and RFC 883 in November 1983

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DNS History

In 1984, four UC Berkeley students—Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle, and Songnian Zhou—wrote the first Unix name server implementation, called the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) Server.

In November 1987, RFC 1034 and RFC 1035 superseded the 1983 DNS specifications. Several additional Request for Comments have proposed extensions to the core DNS protocols

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DNS Hierarchies

We have root (.)- 13 root servers

We have GTLDs eg .com, .org, .durban, .club, ….

We have ccTLDs eg .ke .tz

We have Second Level Domains eg .co.ke, .or.tz,

.co.uk

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DNS World wide

Since development of DNS, Domain names have been a critical part of our infrustracture.

gTLDs are Generic Top Level Domains

Initially we had 8 gTLDs

ccTLDs are country Code top level domain

We experienced the ―.com fever‖

There are over 500 million domains registered globally

There are over 300 gTLDs approved

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DNS in Africa

Africa has experienced slow domain growth

South Africa has over 1M ccTLD domains and its gTLD Domains are growing fast

Kenya has 45,00 Domains

Nigeria has over 60,000 domains

Africa has an avarage of 1.4 m domains

Germany (.de) has over 3m domains

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DNS in Kenya

Generally in Kenya is still growing its ccTLD

domains

On average for every 300 domains registered at

least 10 are .ke domain.

There is need to increase the number of

domains to at least 50/50

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What KeNIC is doing

To increase the odds we are planning on

increasing .ke brand awareness

Inform the public including people from the

grassroots on the importance of having domains

Make .ke domains as affordable as .com– Price

of domains were reduced to ksh 650 for

registrars and the agreed RRP is ksh1000

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Why low uptake in kenya

/Africa?

.com were introduced earlier than .ke domains

.ke affordability issues

Few people have knowledge of existance of .ke

domains

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Reasons to Increase

uptake of Domains

We have a population of over 40M

10% of the population register .ke domains.

Sell a domain at ksh 1000 and buy it from KeNIC at Ksh 650, Profit = 1.8 Billion

We need to beat South Africa

.ke is a Billion shillings industry $$$$$$$$.

Get your share now.

Google has just moved to the domain business. That means more $$$$$$$

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Final Words

As .KEnyans we should all have our own local

domains

ma.KE the switch now

ta.KE your KE domain now

For more details contact .KEnic

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