Three More Countries Select CoCCA’s Registry System

The CoCCA Registry System has been selected by the Zambia Information Communications Technology Authority (“ZICTA”) and the Botswana Telecommunications Authority (“BTA”) to manage the .ZM and .BW Top Level Domains. Meaning one in five sovereign states now use CoCCA’s Registry System.

CoCCA’s software will be deployed in-country, as the two regulatory authorities’ have reached an agreement in principle to mutually provide escrow and disaster recovery for their respective country code Top Level Domains.

Both governments take the view that the TLDs are critical infrastructure. ZICTA project Manager Choolwe Nalubamba explains: “deploying CoCCA’s Registry System was the logical choice as ZICTA does not wish to outsource or deploy a propriety registry system. CoCCA’s success has been in its approach - they treat a TLD registry as a “shrink-wrapped” standards based database application - not a complex system requiring foreign expertise.”

This brings the total number of ccTLDs that have deployed the CoCCA solution in Africa and the Middle East to 14 (including three Arabic IDN TLDs). 35 ccTLDs have deployed globally. CoCCA’s Technology is used to run twice as many TLD s as our closest competitor, Afilias. Several more ccTLDs are currently evaluating CoCCA and additional announcements are expected soon.

In addition to the .ZM and .BW TLDs, the University of Guyana has completed a migration of the .GY ccTLD to the CoCCA NOC, while continuing to operate a mirror registry system for failover and escrow in country, something that is easy when using CoCCA’s registry system.

“The reason for our success is our philosophy, at CoCCA we view a TLD registry as a database application, our software application can be downloaded and installed in minutes on Linux / OSX or WIN7 operating systems in the same way one would install an office suite” said Garth Miller, CEO, CoCCA Registry Services (NZ) Limited. “We provide users with a commercial subscription option with automated updates and security patches, we constantly modify the software to comply with IETF and ICANN requirements and the demands of the market”

Version four, to be released in June will comply fully with ICANN’s evolving gTLD requirements.

For more information contact:

Kelly Hardy

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