The Council of Country Code Administrators provides it's members with hosted solution at the CoCCA Netowrk Operatoins Centre (NOC) in Sydney AU.

The CoCCA Hosted Solution is NOT a registry outsource solution - members are still required to mange various aspects of their respective ccTLD on a day-to-day basis via the UI. ( adding clients, seting price, suspending, deleting, restoring, setting policy etc are all the member's responsibility )

There are no long term contracts or commitments, hosting can be terminated at any time for any reason by the member and on 4 weeks notice by CoCCA.

F.A.Q

Where is the CoCCA NOC ?

http://www.globalswitch.com/locations/sydney.en.html

Do I need any local infrastucture ?

Members are stronlgy encourraged to maintain a mirror registry locally for failover and disaster recovery. This often also servers as the hidden DNS master for the ccTLD. Any basic server, a single applaince is normally sufficient for disaster recovery. Budget 2-4k USD for a failover servers and registry backup locally.

What are the costs ?

Hosting of the register : AUD $300 per month - it does not matter how many domians are in the ccTLD.

DNS Services :  1USD per name per year for double anycast services  ( Optional )

Merchant Processing of Registrar Credit Card Payments : 3.5%

If registrars are allowed to make online payments using the CoCCA accounts we simply deduct the merchant and hosting fees and wire the balance at the end of each month to your nominated account.

Are there any costs associated with migration of legacy data ?

If you can provide existing data in CSV / XLS  and the current Zone files we can import free of charge.

How do registrars connect ?

Over 220 registrars are currently connected, all you need to do login and set the price via your administrative login and registrars can start to register and manage existing names right away.

What if I want to host it all locally down the road ?

Unlike traditional outsourced registry services the software used at the NOC is the same as the open source verison you can download and install locally.

This means you can host the primary with CoCCA and run a backup locally - or you can run the primary locally and use the NOC as a backup, or you can use the NOC as a registrar gateway and have a registry and the master DNS in the country.

Under all scenarios, with CoCCA you remain in control of your ccTLD.

Does CoCCA provide registrar support ?

CoCCA can provide registrar support as a fall-back. The system is highly automated and support is not often required.

Memebrs using the hosted solution may have to interact with registrars to a greater extent depending on the exact commercial model.

Is it really this easy ?

Yes.