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Presentation from New Zealand - NZNOG at APOPS - APRICOT 2003 by Keith Davidson. State of the Internet in New Zealand: 4,000,000 citizens 46% of households own a computer 72% of people have Internet Access (Dec 2001) 54% accessed the Internet in the past 4 weeks (Dec 2001) 400+ ISP’s
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Presentation from New Zealand - NZNOG at APOPS - APRICOT 2003 by Keith Davidson
State of the Internet in New Zealand: • 4,000,000 citizens • 46% of households own a computer • 72% of people have Internet Access (Dec 2001) • 54% accessed the Internet in the past 4 weeks (Dec 2001) • 400+ ISP’s • 122,000 Domain Names in .nz (Feb 2003)
.nz Operations • Office of the Domain Name Commissioner created March 2002 • Shared Registry Service introduced Oct 2002 • First competitive registrar went live Dec 2002 • Domainz was formerly .nz registry, now stabilising registrar • 24 authorised competitive registrars now operating • SRS is open source, source code to be released shortly
New .nz 2nd Level Domains • .bank.nz application failed to gain approval • .maori.nz approved and operational from Sept 2002 • .geek.nz being polled currently • 2nd Level Policy now under review
New Internet Initiatives • Project Probe Initiative • Intent to deliver broadband to all schools / academic institutes • NZ$10 – 99 million (US$6 - $45 million) Government Funding • Internet2 – Next Generation Internet (NGI): • Consortium formed & seeding funding obtained • CEO employed • Design and Build commenced • Two very successful Internet Exchanges in NZ: • Auckland Peering Exchange (APE) • Wellington Internet Exchange (WIX)
IT Events • “Knowledge Wave” conference held in Auckland last week. • InternetNZ summit tentatively scheduled for late May • NZNOG / Uniforum conference scheduled for mid July
Information Sources: • Ministry of Economic Development www.med.govt.nz • Department of Statistics www.stats.govt.nz • InternetNZ www.internetnz.net.nz • Uniforum www.uniforum.org.nz • NZNOG www.nznog.org • NZ Maori Internet Society www.nzmis.org.nz • .geek.nz www.geek.nznog.org • Project Probe Broadband www.minedu.govt.nz • Shared Registry System www.dnc.org.nz www.nzrs.org.nz www.domainz.net.nz
Thank you for your attendance and attention Keith Davidson (president@internetnz.net.nz)