NIC México

NIC Mexico

Type	Non-profit Organization
Industry	Domain registration
Founded	1989
Headquarters	Monterrey, Mexico
Products	registration in .mx, IP Address Allocation
Website	http://www.nic.mx

NIC Mexico (Network Information Center Mexico) or NIC.MX is the non-profit organization in charge of the Registry for the Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) .MX . With an experience of more than 20 years^[1] NIC Mexico is also responsible for the National Internet Registry which manages the allocation of IP address space to Mexican Internet Service Providers.

History

NIC Mexico was created in February 1989 when the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education received the .MX delegation.

In 2001 NIC Mexico established^[2] the external Advisory Committee with the aim to discuss relevant and strategic issues regarding the .MX policies.

Registrars

NIC Mexico finished its Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) implementation in July 2008 and started the accreditation of Registrars (Domain Name Registrar) for the commercialization of .MX domain names. List of current accredited .MX Registrars show more than 180 after one year of operation of this model^[3]

International

NIC Mexico is a founding member of LACNIC and LACTLD. NIC Mexico is member of the Country Code Names Supporting Organization ccNSO, which is part of the ICANN structure.

Along with eCOM-LAC (Federation of Latin-America and the Caribbean for the Internet and Electronic Commerce), NIC Mexico is proposing the .lat as a new Internet generic top-level domain (gTLD) for Latin American communities.

See also

• .mx
• LACNIC

References

1. ^ .MX delegation record in IANA
2. ^ Advisory Committee Press Release (spanish)
3. ^ List of .MX Accredited Registrars

External links

• NIC Mexico Registry - official site.
• LACTLD - Latin American and Caribbean Country Code Top Level Domain Organization.