Dot Kiwi Congratulates InternetNZ for their move to Single Level Domains
New Zealand domains follow global trends
30 September 2014
Statement to be attributed to Tim Johnson, Director of Dot Kiwi:
“It’s exciting to see InternetNZ responding to global trends and new competition by allowing registration of .nz, rather
than .co.nz and other iterations of .nz. As of today, New Zealanders have a choice of two local, simplified domains,
.kiwi and .nz.
“In the next 12 to 18 months, domain name usage is going to change. Domain names like, yourname.kiwi, rather than domain
names such as yourname.co.nz, are going to become much more common.
“The governing body of the UK’s domain names has already opened up the simpler .uk domain, whereas previously there was
just .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk and a few others. It’s great that New Zealand is following suit.
“InternetNZ’s process to change over to a .nz domain is relatively complex and Kiwis will lean on the companies they
bought their domains from to help them through the different stages.
“With all these changes, now is a really good time for Kiwis to think about what their email and web addresses say about
them to the online world. If you are unable to secure yourname.nz, now might be the time to consider whether you stick
with yourname.co.nz, or make the move to yourname.kiwi or similar.
“The .nz domain communicates where a person or their business is geographically, but .kiwi tells them what kind of
person or entity they are, no matter where in the world they may be.
One thing that’s nice for us to see is that a healthy proportion of people are already using their .kiwi domains for
websites or email, or are in the process of constructing new web pages.”
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