Norid
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Domain name registry |
| Headquarters | Trondheim, Norway |
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Area served
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Norway |
| Services | .no |
| Revenue | 23.1 million kr (2009) |
| NOK 6.6 million (2009) | |
| Profit | NOK 4.8 million (2009) |
| Parent | Uninett |
| Website | www.norid.no |
Uninett Norid AS, trading as Norid, is the domain name registry for the three Norwegian country code top-level domains (ccTLD) .no, .sj and .bv. The non-profit company is based in Trondheim, where it shares offices with its parent company Uninett; both companies being owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. Norid operates under contract with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, supervised by the Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority. Uninett took over responsibility for the Norwegian domain in 1987, and in 2003 it was spun off as a separate company. Only .no is open for registration.
The registry for .no was in 1983 given to Pål Spilling at the Norwegian Telecommunications Administration's research institute. However, policy-makers wanted the domain to be managed by a non-commercial organization, and the responsibility was transferred to Uninett, a supplier of information and communications technology to Norwegian public universities, colleges and research institutions, on 17 March 1987. At the time Uninett was administrated as a division of SINTEF, but became a limited company owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research in 1993. Norid was established as a division within Uninett in 1996, with the responsibility of managing the .no domain. On 21 August 1997, Norid was given the responsibility for the newly created .sj and .bv domains. In 1998, Uninett FAS was established as a subsidiary to manage the technical network and service infrastructure Uninett had established, including operation of the network systems for the universities and colleges. At the same time, Norid was transferred to Uninett FAS. In 1998, two organizations were established: the Domain Resolution Body, to determine domain disputes, and Norpol, a political advisory board.Domain name registrars were introduced in 1999 to handle aspects that could be provided by a third party. Uninett Norid was made a separate subsidiary of Uninett in 2003, to secure the management of the domains within an independent organization.
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