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Any
South African government department that wishes to establish
an Internet sub-domain within GOV.ZA domain, whether within
the Government VPN's or an external ISP. |
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Any costs involved? |
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DNS
registrations are free, however the GOV.ZA Domain Administrator
reserves the right to change this. |
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When
should an application form be submitted? |
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The
sooner the better to allow time for the submitted application
forms to be processed. However, a completed application form
must reach the GOV.ZA Administrators not later than 12:00 SAST (10:00 GMT) on
a Thursday. (This requirement is strictly applied) |
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When
does DNS synchronisation happen? |
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DNS
synchronisation happens once a week at 23:59 SAST (21:59 GMT) on Thursdays. |
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When
can I expect the DNS entries to work? |
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Applicants
can normally test at 00:01 SAST (22:01 GMT) on a Friday if the registration was
successful. If not the GOV.ZA Administrator can be contacted
Friday morning for support. If the domain responds positively,
it in essence means that the sub-domain has been delegated to
your ISP of choice and future requests and support issues should
be directed to them first. |
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What is the Applicant / GOV.ZA Administrator's responsibility? |
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It
remains the applicant's responsibility to do follow-up enquiries.
The GOV.ZA Administrator's responsibility is to co-ordinate
the successful registration of the sub-domain. |
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Who should submit the application form? |
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The
administrative or technical contact may submit the application
form, however, the signing of the application form must be by
the administrative contact. |
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How do I contact the GOV.ZA Administrators? |
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Click
on the contact info button on the main menu or click
here |
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How do I know whether the name I have chosen is not taken? |
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Make
use of "WHOIS" click here |
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How do I delete or modify existing registered records? |
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All
modifications or deletion requests registered through GOV.ZA
must be emailed from a valid contact email address of the Administrative
contact who originally arranged such registration. A change
refers to all requested field in the application form. |
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I
submitted an application form, what now? |
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If
problems surface during the processing of your application form,
you will be contacted. Problems with existing and new registrations,
please contact us. click here |
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Where do I find the terms and conditions? |
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It's
part of the registration process. click here |
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I have registered a .gov.za domain, and I am the technical contact.
Can someone else change the records without my knowledge? |
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We
are authoritive for the .gov.za domain. In our zone file we
delegate domains to name servers. If the owner of a domain decides to update the domain
information to delegate the domain to a new ISP, yours will disappear and it will
be their choice to inform you about their intentions. |
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Please
define owner? |
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Ownership
of a registered domain remains with the government department.
Ownership is not vested in any individual representative of
the department or contractor. |
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What is the difference between a Host name and a Domain name? |
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A
host name is the logical name assigned to a computer.
On the Web, most hosts are named "www"; for example, www.mydepartment.gov.za.
If a site is composed of several hosts, they might be given
different names such as
"support.mydepartment.gov.za" and "sales.mydepartment.gov.za".
"support" and "sales" are the host names, "mydepartment" is
a sub-domain name.
"gov" is the 2nd level domain and "za" is the top-level domain
name. |
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Who may sign the application form? |
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The
person who will carry the responsibility for administrative
and policy matters of the sub-domain to be established. This
person must be of a level/rank equivalent to CIO or Director
within the organisation. |
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Who
is the technical contact? |
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The
Technical Contact (This person must not be the same as the administrative
contact) carries the responsibility for all technical matters
of the sub-domain to be established. This is the person or group
who will be doing the actual DNS administration. |
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