Accreditation as Registrar
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Namibian Network Information Center (Pty) Ltd
2023-05-06
In order to accredit with Namibian Network Information Center (“NA-NiC”) as a Registrar for .NA® countrycode Top Level (“ccTLD“) Domain Names, you must
follow (all of) these following steps (in order):1. Contact the corresponding Register Operator via
email at accounts@omadhina.co.NA (NamibianApplicants) or directors@omadhina.NET (Foreign Applicants) by email signed with a GNU Privacy Guard (“GPG”) key which is visible on thePublic Key Server (“PKS”) infrastructure (suchas, for example https://keys.openpgp.org/), so thekey can be imported.
2. Once that has been done you will send us appropriate documentation in order to satisfy theEffective Control requirement of the Accreditation Agreement (such as for example the CM 22
and CM 29 forms, or CC 2 form) as efficientlycompressed (preferably less than 1 MB per document), well readable PDFs attached to emails
addressed to dns-admin@na-nic.com.na, signedwith same GPG key as above.

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4.6. However, if you are a Registrar not accredited with ICANN, but wish to make use ofEPP, you could apply as well.
4.5.1. In that case you may be required to go
through an extensive evaluation procedure.

3.1. Once we have decided to accept your application we will email you the latest version of
the Accreditation Agreement as PDF, signed
by us, and accompanied by a GPG signature
file so you can verify integrity.
3.2. You will complete the Agreement, including
your GPG Key Fingerprint, pasting your signature into it.
3.3. Then you will sign it with the same GPG key,taking care to produce an ASCII armored fileand return both by email addressed to dnsadmin@na-nic.com.na.

604.5.2. We would advise you to attempt this
only if you have significant expertisewith EPP and/or anticipate a large number of registrations.

0355. After receipt of Agreement we would request
you to email us the details for the Register Operator to enter into the database via the Portal
https://swakop.omadhina.co.na. You may change
them afterwards, with the exception of the Registrar Handle (which can not be changed after thefact for technical reasons).

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3. We will then take the accreditation process further in terms of the recently promulgated Electronic Transactions Act (Act 4 of 2019):

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4. ICANN Accredited Registrars will be approved tomake use of the Extensible Provisioning Protocol(“EPP”) on request.

5.1. If you were approved for EPP these details
would include the IP addresses from which
EPP connections would be made so we could
enter these into our firewall.
5.2. Should you wish to further secure your access to the Web GUI from certain IP Addresses only, you would let us know and
we would add those addresses to your profile (which you will be able to yourselves aswell) but also to the firewall.

6. The Administrative Contact of the Registrar must
be an individual who “can speak for” the Registrar, such as CEO, or Company Secretary andmust read all correspondence addressed to theregistered email address directly.

3.4. We’ll then sign the PDF with our GPG key
again and combine the signature files into
one which we’ll return back to you by email.

7. The Register Operator would then advise youby GPG signed and encrypted email of your login and password credentials, the latter to bechanged forthwith.

3.5. You may then verify with GPG for good signatures from both parties (confirmed byboth GPG Key Fingerprints in the PDF) andintegrity of the PDF.

8. Once the details have been entered into the Portal, correspondence will only entered into withthe email address listed for the Registrar in thePortal at the time.

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8.1. You may modify this information, however,in the Portal at your convenience.
8.2. Any email address entered in the Portalmust have a valid GPG key listed in the PKS
infrastructure.
8.3. The use of a ticket system is acceptable, provided it has a valid GPG key listed in thePKS infrastructure and it has been configured not to auto-respond to emails sent to it
from the portal, especially when requestedby the Register Operator or NA-NiC to do so.
8.4. Operational correspondence will be, in thefirst instance, directed to the Register Operator.
9. The use of a 2 Factor Authentication is mandatory and enforced by the CoCCATools Portal. Currently we support the Google Authenticator.
10. Failure to safeguard the credentials (2FA and/orpassword(s)) which result in the Register Operator having to manually reset any or all of them
may result in the assessment of a manual handling fee which will be debited against the Domain Credit in the Portal.
11. For technical reasons, a Registrar will only be accredited to manage domain names on behalf ofeither Namibian or Foreign Applicants, but not
both from the same login account, with the exception of .co.NA.

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11.1. If you are a Namibian Registrar you therefor
have to indicate if you wish to manage domain names for both Namibian and Foreign
Applicants so we can set up two separate login accounts accordingly.

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11.2. For a Foreign Registrar we will set up only
one login account.
12. Registrars purchase Domain Name Credit against
which registrations or renewals are debited on
the Portal.
12.1. Due to Exchange Control Regulations weonly allow Foreign Registrars to make use ofa different Credit Card gateway than Namibian Registrars. This increases the Domain
Name Credit directly.
12.2. Namibian Registrars pay via EFT and afterreceipt the Register Operator will increase
the Domain Name Credit manually accordingly. We have added a Credit Card gateway
for Namibian Registrars.
13. There will be an annual fee equivalent to theprice of 3 registrations, but we shall credit thepayment of 3 actual registrations against this.

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