.ke ccTLD Background
The .ke registration is administrated by the Kenya Network Information Centre (KeNIC), a Kenya based private non-profit-making organization. The Internet country code top level domain for Kenya is .ke, which was introduced in the year 1993. KeNIC has been assigned its authority by ICANN- the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The .ke registry is a closed registry offering domain registration services to persons and organizations in Kenya. The domain name should be similar to the company or organization name.
Some Second Level .ke Domains Are:
- .co.ke : for companies
- .or.ke : for non profit making organizations and NGOs
- .ne.ke : for network devices
- .go.ke : for government entities
- .ac.ke : for institutions of higher education
- .sc.ke : for lower and middle institutes of learning
Some of the domain name extensions (such as go.ke, ac.ke, sc.ke) require additional documents before they can be registered.
The official website for registration services is http://www.kenic.or.ke and http://whois.kenic.or.ke is the whois server that provides other important details.
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