Official Accreditations

Bottle Domains is a wholly owned and operated Australian company officially accredited by the .au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA) for Australia, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the registry for .uk internet names Nominet UK, and the The Domain Name Commissioner (DNC) for New Zealand.

To find out more about auDA, ICANN, Nominet, and DNC visit the links below.

au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA) is an Australian not-for-profit company vested with the responsibility of operating the .au domain for the benefit of all stakeholders. In its role as manager of the .au domain, auDA carries out the following functions: develop and implement domain name policy, license 2LD registry operators, accredit and license registrars, implement consumer safeguards, facilitate .au Dispute Resolution Policy, represent .au at ICANN & other international fora.

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is responsible for managing and coordinating the Domain Name System (DNS) to ensure that every address is unique and that all users of the Internet can find all valid addresses. ICANN is also responsible for accrediting the domain name registrars.

Nominet UK is the registry for .uk internet names. They manage the authoritative database of .uk domain name registrations, and are a not-for-profit company comprising of members instead of shareholders.

DNC, the Domain Name Commissioner is responsible for the day to day oversight of the .nz domain name registration and management system.