.MN Domain Registry

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.MN Domain Registry

• Web WWW.NIC.MN
• Email admin_at_domain.mn
• DATACOM Co., LTD

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DataCom Co., Ltd

• The first ISP in Mongolia
• Est. 1990
• FidoNet, UUCP
• Internet connection, 1994
• Datacom
• Magicnet LLC (networking)
• NetCard (e-payments)
• Our operations DNS, Hosting, Application
  Development

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ISPs in Mongolia

• Fiber China-Mongolia-Russia
• Satellite (USA,HK,IntelSat)
• ISP-
• Magicnet (JVC/USA)
• MICOM (Mongolian Telecom)
• MobiNet (JVC/Japan)
• Sky CC (JVC/Korea)
• RailCom (JVC/Russia)
• MSC-Com

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.MN Domain RegistryContents

• Domain Structure
• Registration Policies
• Fee Structure
• Hardware and Software in use
• Staffs and theirs main role
• Future plan

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.MN Domain Structure

• .MN

Commercial registration .MNNon-commercial
registration .GOV.MN .ORG.MN .EDU.MN
Reserved domain names COM.MN NET.MN MIL.MN
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.MN Domain Structure

• .MN - registered approx. 1900 domain names
• ORG.MN 160 domain names
• GOV.MN 60 domain names
• EDU.MN 50 domain names

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Registration Policies

• First come, first served registration
• No local presence is required
• No special registration restrictions
• Multiple-year registration
• For more information about policies and fees,
  please visit the .MN Registry web site at
  http//www.nic.mn

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Fee structure

• 1. COMMERCIAL REGISTRATION DOMAIN NAMES UNDER
  .MN
• a) Standard Registration 55USD/per year
• b) Multiple-year Registration
• 2. NON-COMMERCIAL REGISTRATION DOMAIN NAMES
• a) .ORG.MN free registration
• b) .GOV.MN free registration
• c) .EDU.MN free registration

Year (s) Maintenance fee (USD/per year)
1 55USD
2 45USD
5 35USD
10 25USD
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Hardware and Software in use
DNS servers Hardware
DNS server s Software

• Platform PC
• Server Specification
• Intel Pentium III-650Mhz,128MB RAM, 20GB HDD
• Network area
• 100Mbps backbone network

Operation System Master RedHat Linux Slave SusE Linux Name server Master BIND 8.2.2-p5 Slave BIND 9.2.2 Domain registration Web Site http//www.nic.mn Whois http//whois.nic.mn Database MySQL
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Staffs and their main role

• DNS AdministratorDirectly manage for
  registrants, registrars and domain names
  information on the database system.
• DNS Operator - Setup and maintenance DNS
  servers, - zone files updates
• Sales Manager- Billing system,-
  Advertisements,- Report analyze

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Future Plan

• Current issue
• Near future plan

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Current issue

• Offline registration mode - Manual updating zone
  files
• Resellers/registrars connection system - There
  is no direct connection for reseller access -
  There is no reseller function for current
  system - No shared registry or EPP based
  system
• Developing PostgreSQL based Shared Registry System

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Near Future Plan

• We will be migration to following system
• Shared Registry System
• Dynamic update DNS zone files
• (PowerDNS)

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Thank you

• Enkhbold Gombo
• enkhbold_at_datacom.mn
• .MN Domain Registry Team
• 2004