CORE++ Partners and Providers

CORE is a not-for-profit membership association of Internet domain name registrars and registries active since 1997 in the Internet industry. CORE was the first operable ICANN accredited registrar in 1999, and has always been actively present in the major technical and political development that ICANN pursued since its creation.

Some of the high value services that CORE offers are the following:

• Registrar business operations
  With their shared registration system (SRS) CORE provides cutting-edge developments.
• Registry consulting services
  CORE's professional expertise and their profound experience with state-of-the-art technologies make them a valuable adviser. CORE has repeatedly submitted successful bids to ICANN.
• Registries back-end services
  Since 2002, CORE provides sophisticated back-end registry systems for two sponsored top level domains (sTLD), .aero and .museum.

http://www.corenic.net

The Redwood City based Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. (ISC) is a nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to supporting the infrastructure of the universal connected self-organizing Internet – and the autonomy of its participants – by developing and maintaining core production quality software, protocols, and operations.

ISC was originally founded to continue the work of maintaining and enhancing BIND following in the footsteps of U. C. Berkeley, Digital Equipment Corp., and Vixie Enterprises. ISC's operational activities include root name service, Internet hosting facilities, secondary name service for more than 50 toplevel domains, and a DNS OARC (Operations, Analysis and Research Center) for monitoring and reporting of the Internet's Domain Name System.

Today, ISC has employees in California, Massachusetts, Canada, Holland, and Australia, and a global constituency.

http://www.isc.org

NICBR is the entity, coordinated by the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee - CGIBR, with the attribution to coordinate and to integrate all Internet services in Brazil, assuring quality and efficiency in all offered services.

Specially must support the development of Internet services, approve and commend policies for the brazilian Internet, and technical and operational procedures, allocate the Internet address space and register all domain names under the ccTLD <.br>, promote the interconnection of different backbones and collect, organize and share information and statistics about Internet services.

http://www.nic.br

NIDA Consortium is a joint venture between NIDA, Inames, and CyDentity.

The National Internet Development Agency of Korea (NIDA) is a non-profit organization. It was founded in 1999 with the aim of building a stable Internet address management system. Since then, NIDA has been in charge of allocating & managing Internet addresses in an efficient manner including R&D activities designed to increase the use of Internet. It has established a stable framework for managing the Internet address resources and promoting international cooperation and comprehensive policies.

As a sub-organization of NIDA, Korea Network Information Center (KRNIC) also has endeavored in allocation and assignment of domestic IP addresses and registration of .KR domains. As of now, NIDA manages about 590,000 .KR domains. In addition, NIDA has showed continuous support for international cooperation and development in Internet through its outreach programs for developing countries and active participation in various international organizations and conferences.

In this way, NIDA has been playing a key role in Internet development of Korea based on Korea's world-class high-speed network infrastructure. NIDA is located in Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Inames and CyDentity are companies specialized in Internet Address Resources. They have prepared and materialized a global platform, R&D, and operations to manage the necessary technologies for operating a Registry since 2001.

http://www.cydentity.com
http://www.inames.co.kr
http://www.nida.or.kr

Telefónica Group is one of the world's leading telecommunications companies. Telefónica is the leading operator in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking markets and the fifth biggest operator in terms of market capitalisation. Its activities are centered mainly on the fixed and mobile telephony businesses with broadband as the key tool for the development of both of these.

The company has a significant presence in 16 countries and has operations of various sizes in approximately 40 countries. Telefonica has a strong presence in Latin America, where the company acts in eight countries and where it concentrates its growth strategy. Its costumer base amounts more than 115 million.

Telefónica is a 100% public company, with almost 1.7 million direct shareholders. Its share capital currently comprises 4,955,891,361 ordinary shares traded on the Spanish Stock Market (Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia) and on those in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, New York, Lima, Buenos Aires, São Paulo and the SEAQ International Exchange in London.

http://www.telefonica.com

The .za domain name authority (.za DNA) was established in 2002 in order to administer the .za (South African) top level domain of the Internet. One of the company's primary objectives is to enhance public awareness of the economic and commercial benefits of domain name registration.

An essential task of the .za domain name authority is to administer and manage the .za domain name space in compliance with international best practice concerning the administration of domain name space. Besides that, it is also responsible for licensing and regulating registries as well as registrars for the respective registries. Additionally, .za DNA publishes guidelines on the general administration and management of the .za domain name space, on the requirements and procedures for domain name registration, and on the maintenance of and public access to a repository.

http://www.zadna.org.za