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The company is based in United Kingdom and it has offices in the United States and Japan. NIC.ac servers are located in Amsterdam, London, Melbourne, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo.
The company is based in United Kingdom and it has offices in the United States and Japan. NIC.ac servers are located in Amsterdam, London, Melbourne, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo.
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==Usage==
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Due to its similarly with the .ac ("academic") second-level domain, a number of global academic institutions register their sites with .ac, such as Ralston College in Savannah, GA, USA (http://www.ralston.ac) and University of Oxford (http://www.oxford.ac), which utilizes the ccTLD for redirect purposes.
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In 2013, after its [[.sx]] domain was seized, The Pirate Bay temporarily relocated its site to thepiratebay.ac.<Ref
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Nic.ac names accept [[IDN Code Point Policy]], which means that [[IDN]] names, for example 상표.ac, can be registered and used.
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==Registrars==
==Registrars==
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Nic.ac offers domain name registration, management, and renewal.<ref>[http://www.nic.ac/about.html nic.ac
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</ref> .ac is an [[ccTLD#Open ccTLDs|Open ccTLD]], and thus, registration of .ac domain name is open for everyone and it is offered internationally by its accredited registrars worldwide which include [[Instra Corporation]], [[Melbourne IT]], [[French Connexion]], [[INDOM]], [[Key-Systems]] GmbH, [[Asadal Domain Center]], [[Nominalia]], [[IP Mirror Pte Ltd]], [[CyberQuest UK]] etc. <ref>[http://www.nic.ac/registrars.html
Regustrars
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Nic.ac offers domain name registration, management, and renewal.<ref
name="about"
>[http://www.nic.ac/about.html
About],
nic.ac</ref> .ac is an [[ccTLD#Open ccTLDs|Open ccTLD]], and thus, registration of .ac domain name is open for everyone and it is offered internationally by its accredited registrars worldwide which include [[Instra Corporation]], [[Melbourne IT]], [[French Connexion]], [[INDOM]], [[Key-Systems]] GmbH, [[Asadal Domain Center]], [[Nominalia]], [[IP Mirror Pte Ltd]], [[CyberQuest UK]] etc. <ref>[http://www.nic.ac/registrars.html
Registrars
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==NIC.ac and ICANN==
==NIC.ac and ICANN==
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Nic.ac, through its manager Paul Kane, was one of the [[CENTR]] members that supported [[ICANN]] to improve the services of [[IANA]]. One of the projects
NIc
.ac supported was the automation project called '''e-IANA endorsed''' by ccTLD registries around the world that would improve the efficiency of the IANA service to the Registry Community.<ref>[http://www.the-islander.org.ac/art_3351_16_245_1.html the-islander.org.ac]</ref>
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Nic.ac, through its manager Paul Kane, was one of the [[CENTR]] members that supported [[ICANN]] to improve the services of [[IANA]]. One of the projects
nic
.ac supported was the automation project called '''e-IANA endorsed''' by ccTLD registries around the world that would improve the efficiency of the IANA service to the Registry Community.<ref>[http://www.the-islander.org.ac/art_3351_16_245_1.html the-islander.org.ac]</ref>
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Recently, Paul Kane was the only representative from the United Kingdom chosen by ICANN to serve as a [[Trusted Community Representative]] responsible for safe-guarding a share of the [[Root Zone]]'s [[DNSSEC]] Recovery Key.<ref>[http://www.nic.ac/dnssec.html nic.ac
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Recently, Paul Kane was the only representative from the United Kingdom chosen by ICANN to serve as a [[Trusted Community Representative]] responsible for safe-guarding a share of the [[Root Zone]]'s [[DNSSEC]] Recovery Key.<ref>[http://www.nic.ac/dnssec.html
DNSSEC]
nic.ac</ref>
==References==
==References==