.ma is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco. A local registrar with a local Moroccan company as administrative contact is needed to register an .ma or .co.ma domain name. Further restrictions are imposed on the registering of other second-level domains (such as .net.ma or.gov.ma).
[edit] History
In 2003, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) approved a request for delegation of the .ma ccTLD for administrative and technical contact to Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenieurs.
In 1995 the technical management of the .ma domain was taken over by Maroc Telecom, which as of 2008(?) is still the technical maintainer.
On 12 May 2006 IANA redesignated the administrative and technical contact for the domain, and made ANRT the only official registrar for the .ma ccTLD.[1]
Within some years the ANRT will request the market to bid on a "Technical maintainer" license which is valid for five years. The new party will get 12 months to implement a provisioning system based on Extensible Provisioning Protocol. It is not expected that before 2010 the provisioning of .ma domains can be made completely automatic.
[edit] Practical information
- Total hosts of .ma: 275,889 (2008)[2]
- Total internet users in Morocco: 7.300.000 (2006)[3]
- Total ADSL connection in Morocco: 550.000 (2007)[4]
[edit] Second-level domains
Registration can be done directly at the second level, or at the third level beneath these names:
- .ma: General use
- net.ma: Internet providers
- ac.ma: educational institutions
- org.ma: organizations
- gov.ma: governmental entities
- press.ma: the press and publications
- co.ma: commercial entities
[edit] References
- ^ "IANA Report on the Redelegation of the .MA Top-Level Domain". http://www.iana.org/reports/ma-report-24jul2006.html. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
- ^ "Statistiques". CIA. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/mo.html#Comm. Retrieved on 2008-10-03.
- ^ "The World Factbook – Morocco". Central Intelligence Agency. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/mo.html#Comm. Retrieved on 2008-10-03.
- ^ "ANALYSE DE L’EVOLUTION DU SECTEUR DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS POUR L’ANNEE 2007" (PDF). http://www.anrt.ma/fr/admin/download/upload/file_fr1392.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
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