NIC México (Network Information Centre Mexico) or NIC.MX is the
non-profit organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, not-for-profit organization, or simply a nonprofit, is a non-governmental (private) legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public, or so ...
in charge of the registry for the
.mx country code top-level domain (
ccTLD
A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all tw ...
). NIC Mexico is also responsible for the
National Internet Registry which manages the allocation of
IP address
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. IP addresses serve two main functions: network interface i ...
space to Mexican
internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides a myriad of services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, no ...
s.
History
NIC México was created in February 1989 when the
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM; ), also known as Technological Institute of Monterrey () or just Tec, is aresearch university based in Monterrey, Mexico, which has grown to include 35 campuses located across 25 cit ...
received th
.mx delegation
In 2001 NIC Mexico established the externa
Advisory Committeewith 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
domain name registrar
A domain name registrar is a company, person, or office that manages the reservation of Internet domain names.
A domain name registrar must be accredited by a generic top-level domain (gTLD) Domain name registry, registry or a country code top-l ...
s for the commercialization of .mx domain names. A list of current accredited .mx registrars show more than 180 after one year of operation of this model.
International
NIC Mexico is a founding member of
LACNIC
Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre (LACNIC) (, ) is the regional Internet registry for the Latin American and Caribbean regions.
LACNIC provides number resource allocation and registration services that support the global op ...
an
LACTLD NIC Mexico is member of the Country Code Names Supporting Organization
ccNSO
The Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the policy-development body for a narrow range of global issues regarding country code top-level domains (ccTLD) within t ...
, which is part of the
ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is a global multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several dat ...
structure.
Along with eCOM-LAC (Federation of Latin-America and the Caribbean for the Internet and Electronic Commerce), NIC Mexico proposed
.lat as a
generic top-level domain
A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domain name, domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. The top-level domain names are installed in the DNS root zone, root zone of the nam ...
(gTLD) for
Latin American
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Latin American countries and their Latin American diaspora, diasporas are Metroethnicity, ...
communities, which was approved in 2015.
See also
*
.mx
*
LACNIC
Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre (LACNIC) (, ) is the regional Internet registry for the Latin American and Caribbean regions.
LACNIC provides number resource allocation and registration services that support the global op ...
References
External links
NIC Mexico Registry- official site.
LACTLD- Latin American and Caribbean Country Code Top Level Domain Organization.
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Internet in Mexico
Domain name registries