NIC Mexico or NIC.MX is the non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

 in charge of the Registry for the Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) .MX

.mx

.mx is the Internet country code top-level domain for Mexico, which recently has been re-opened to new registrations by NIC México. In 2009, The .mx ccTLD will be rolled out in 3 steps:...

 . With an experience of more than 20 years NIC Mexico is also responsible for the National Internet Registry

National Internet Registry

A National Internet Registry is an organization under the umbrella of a Regional Internet Registry with the task of coordinating IP address allocations and other Internet resource management functions at a national level within a country or economic unit.NIRs operate primarily in the Asia Pacific...

 which manages the allocation of IP address

IP address

An Internet Protocol address is a numerical label assigned to each device participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing...

 space to Mexican Internet Service Providers.

History

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

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education

The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education commonly shortened as Monterrey Institute of Technology or Monterrey Tech is one of the largest private, nonsectarian and coeducational multi-campus universities in...

 received the .MX delegation.

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

.mx

.mx is the Internet country code top-level domain for Mexico, which recently has been re-opened to new registrations by NIC México. In 2009, The .mx ccTLD will be rolled out in 3 steps:...

 policies.

Registrars

NIC Mexico finished its Extensible Provisioning Protocol

Extensible Provisioning Protocol

The Extensible Provisioning Protocol is a flexible protocol designed for allocating objects within registries over the Internet.The motivation for the creation of EPP was to create a robust and flexible protocol that could provide communication between domain name registries and domain name...

 (EPP) implementation in July 2008 and started the accreditation of Registrars (Domain Name Registrar

Domain name registrar

A domain name registrar is an organization or commercial entity, accredited by both ICANN and generic top-level domain registry to sell gTLDs and/or by a country code top-level domain registry to sell ccTLDs; to manage the reservation of Internet domain names in accordance with the guidelines of...

) 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

International

NIC Mexico is a founding member of LACNIC and LACTLD.
NIC Mexico is member of the Country Code Names Supporting Organization ccNSO

CcNSO

The Country Code Names Supporting Organization of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is the policy-development body for a narrow range of global issues regarding country code top-level domains within the ICANN structure.Established under the bylaws of ICANN, it is...

, which is part of the ICANN

ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a non-profit corporation headquartered in Marina del Rey, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly...

 structure.

Along with eCOM-LAC

ECOM-LAC

The Latin America and Caribbean Federation for Internet and Electronic Commerce, was founded in March 1988 at a meeting held in Río de Janeiro.-Objective:...

 (Federation of Latin-America and the Caribbean for the Internet and Electronic Commerce), NIC Mexico is proposing the .lat

.lat

.lat is a proposed Internet generic top-level domain for Latin American communities and users wherever they may reside.Recently NIC México along with eCOM-LAC were appointed official sponsors for this campaign...

 as a new Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 generic

Generic top-level domain

A generic top-level domain is one of the categories of top-level domains maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet....

 top-level domain

Top-level domain

A top-level domain is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a...

 (gTLD) for Latin American communities.

External links

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