Kenya Network Information Centre

(KENIC)

Introduction

• KENIC is the registry for the .KE ccTLD.

• Local and non-profit organization

• Mandate is to Manage & operate the .KE ccTLD.

• Public Private Partnership

Staff

• 3 Permanent Employees Administrative Manager, Accountant, Systems Engineer

2 Interns (3 month period…rotational basis) System Administration Customer Support Finance and Administration

Organisation Structure

Board of Directors

Administrative Manager

Accountant Snr. Systems Eng.

Systems Eng.Accounts Assist.

Challenges!!

• High cost of the Internet…

• Link availability….

• Working towards acquiring another link from our local TELCO (increase availability)....

How Registrations Arrive ..

• We have adopted a Public-sector Private-sector Partnership (PPP) model for the .KE Registry.

• Defined application process which includes the signing of an MOU between the Registry and the successful Registrar.

• Public(), Private()…..

What KENIC does!• maintain the Registry System, Database

and .KE root server• respond to customer enquiries (registrars and

domain name owners) regarding the .KE name space.

What the Registrars do!• ….usually ISP’s and who are close to the

customers, deal with the actual registration of the domain names.

How Registration Policies are Implemented?

• We have Domain Registration Procedures which define among other things: How to register a Domain User Identification Registration Domain and Entity Registration Rights How to become a Registrar How to create an Entity (Owner-ID) Administrative Entity Contact’s Domain Administrative Contacts Domain Technical Contacts Domain Billing Contacts DNS Delegations Administrative Entity ID Supporting Documents…for .sc.ke, .ac.ke & .go.ke Billing Cycle….how billing is done

Registration Policies…contd

• We also have defined Transfer and Cancellation Procedures which define procedures for: Changing Administrative Entity Contact ID Transfer of Domain Contacts.. Domain transfer to new entity (owner) Change of DNS Delegation Domain Deletion User ID deletion…

Registry Data Store…• The registry’s data is stored in a single DB

• Zone files and whois data generated by the registry system during domain name registration

• …the registry system requires that you provide certain information before you register a domain name.

DNS Service…

• Authoritative name servers

System requires that you define at least two

Name Servers for each domain name that

you want to register (Master, Slave)..

• DNS Software used

Depends on the Registrar and persons providing

the Name Servers but mostly BIND..

whois Service…

• We use the Brazillian Registry System

• The whois server that we use is custom made for the Brazillian Registry System

Boxes…

• All Workstations run on Linux

• Servers run on FreeBSD

Servers…

• We own and maintain all our servers: Root Server for the .KE domain name space a DNS server a Web server a Mail server a Monitoring server a PBX Server running Asterisk..

Monitoring / Reliability

• MRTG…to monitor the traffic load on network-links (Bandwidth Monitoring)

• NAGIOS…to monitor host, service and network status

• Webalizer…to monitor access to our website (pages visited frequently, points of entry/exit, number of hits..) fast, free web server log file analysis program

Projects…2005..

• installed NTP Server at our IXP(KIXP) – ntp.kenic.or.ke

• in the process of installing a mirror of the F Root Server at the IXP…

• We are planning on doing test beds on DNSSec and IPV6

Thank You…