[ga] South African .za ccTLD administrator takes drastic action to prevent government takeover

[William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020613/wr_nm/tech_safrica_internet_dc_1

Some excerpts:

The administrator of South Africa's web addresses said on Thursday he
had hidden the key to the country's ".ZA" domain network abroad to
prevent any government interference in access to the Internet.

Lawrie, a South African Internet pioneer who is not paid for
administrating the ZA domain, told Reuters he had taken pre-emptive
action to stop the government from seizing control.

"The storage of the primary zone file that defines and controls the ZA
namespace is now offshore," he said.

Lawrie said he had announced his action to signal to the global
Internet community that the South African domain was secure despite
the controversial legislation scheduled to pass its final
parliamentary hurdle next week.



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